Items of the week

• CSS - aspect-ratio can be used to set a preferred width-to-height ratio of a box, it accepts values of <ratio> data type, e.g. 16/9. More about this CSS property is explained on MDN Web Docs.

• AWS Lambda - the context object passed to a handler function includes a method getRemainingTimeInMillis() which returns the approximate remaining execution time before timeout. Picked that up from chapter 6 of Serverless Architectures on AWS.

• On the week 49 of 2021, we saw a remote code execution vulnerability on the popular Java logging library - Apache Log4j. Now also known as Log4Shell, the exploit allows arbitrary Java code to be executed, more details about this on LunaSec blog.

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