Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb

Going from declarative programming to functional programming has been a powerful paradigm shift for us to think about financial processing and accounting. We can now think of this system as a straightforward actor/handler system rather than getting mired in complicated SQL-join logic.

Source: Tracking the Money — Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb – Airbnb Engineering & Data Science – Medium

Next-Generation Malware: Changing The Game In Security’s Operations Center

In a nutshell, the process of malware analysis and defense has evolved from a “set it and forget it” task into a skills-intensive, do-it-yourself research project. And that shift is having a profound effect on the staffing and day-to-day activities of the enterprise security department.

via Next-Generation Malware: Changing The Game In Security’s Operations Center – Dark Reading.

In the meantime, however, the best strategy for stopping next-generation malware is not to rely too heavily on any one technology, Manky advises. A combination of signature-based tools, behavior-based tools, traditional perimeter defenses, and next-generation application defenses can create such a muddle of problems for attackers that can discourage them — and send them looking for easier pickings elsewhere, he says.