Continued access to a pool of people with the right skills and experience is the single biggest HR concern for U.K. businesses preparing for Brexit. Employers are also concerned to know the impact of Brexit on the employment law regime in the U.K. https://goo.gl/r36HJK
Allowing Users to Get Their Own OAuth Tokens for Accessing an API
#ICYMI: I run a lot of different applications that depend on GitHub and that use GitHub authentication as the identity and access management layer for these apps. One of the things I like the most about GitHub and how I feel it handles it’s OAuth more thoroughly than most other platforms is how they let you get your own OAuth token under your settings > developer settings > personal access tokens. You don’t need to set up an application and do the whole OAuth dance, you just get a token that you can use to pass along with each API call.
I operate my own OAuth server, which allows me to authenticate using OAuth with many leading APIs, so generating an OAuth token and setting up a new provider isn’t too hard. However, it is always much easier to go under my account settings, create a new personal access token for a specific purpose, and get to work playing with an API. I wish that ALL API providers did this. At first glance, it looks like GitLab, Harvest, TypeForm, and ContentFul all provide personal access tokens as a first option for on-boarding with their APIs. Demonstrating this is more of a pattern than just a GitHub feature. https://goo.gl/KjD4Lt #DataIntegration #ML
Learning Flux (#fluxlang) Is About as Difficult as Learning an API
#ICYDK: Flux (#fluxlang) is the new data scripting language that we’re creating to make querying and analyzing time series and other kinds of data quick and easy. Flux will be able to work with data from InfluxDB, Prometheus, relational databases, CSV files, S3, and any other kind of API or data source. One of the concerns we heard when I first started talking about Flux (previously IFQL) was that asking users to pick up a new language would present too steep a learning curve. However, I think that learning Flux presents no more difficulty than learning any new API and that it might even be easier than using SQL even if you already “know” the latter.
I’ll lay out the basics of the language before jumping to the specific API stuff. Let’s start with an introduction to Flux with some code. Consider the following script: https://goo.gl/dyK2YF #DataIntegration #ML