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A blog about software development and programming.

Find out how Instacart, Kayak, and Robinhood are helping unlock a password-free future.

What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.

APT10, also known as Stone Panda, is a sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage group that has been active since at least 2006. The group has seen several incarnations as an advanced persistent threat (APT) and is infamous for its exploits. Believed to be a well-funded and technically p...

The open source Dent network OS is moving forward with capabilities that will help make edge and enterprise deployments more efficient.

Brendan Burns, Kubernetes' co-founder shared his thoughts on GitOps and Kubernetes at GitOpsCon.

The relationship between AI and developers is becoming more intertwined every day. Here’s how software developers and employers can adapt.

Human Edited Linked Content Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

It's not the performance, and neither is it the complexity.

How well does Swimm’s new IDE plugin - which lets you create docs right inside your IDE - fare in addressing the internal documentation…

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This is part 3 in my “Software and its Discontents” series.  This series is the product of speaking with a range of folks in the industry over several months about the sense that something about the current state of tech, startups and software has gone quite wrong.

To a great extent, memory management is based on making predictions: which pages of memory will a given process need in the near future? Unfortunately, it turns out that predictions are hard, especially when they are about future events. In the absence of useful information sent back from the future, memory-management subsystems are forced to rely on observations of recent behavior and an assumption that said behavior is likely to continue. The kernel's memory-management decisions are opaque to user space, though, and often result in less-than-optimal performance. A pair of patch sets from SeongJae Park tries to make memory-usage patterns visible to user space, and to let user space change memory-management decisions in response.

After building online communities for two decades, we’ve learned how to fight abuse. It’s a solvable problem. We just have to stop…

Last week I was traveling – and being in four places in six days does not make for a good writing vibe. But today I’m back – and while the pace is picking up for the annual Signal…

Google A/I suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for all of Big Tech; that means the real battle will be between incumbents and Big Tech on one side, and open source on the other.

Deprecated should be my middle name

This website shows a map of GitHub. Each dot is a project. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently gave starts to both projects

A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year.

In this article, I want to discuss Infrastructure as Code - the history of the practice, why it's important, what benefits does it bring, and what innovations are being developed in this very active area of software engineering.

Working for a few months at Gitpod, solely via Cloud Development Environments, has changed how I build software.

We had THE EXACT same question. We went and asked the r/terraform community this: ”Why are people using Terraform Cloud? I may be missing something, but why can't terraform just be run in GitHub Actions? I feel that for 99% of companies, a terraform runner fundamentally only needs the

Creating and maintaining a test automation suite is a time-consuming endeavor, yet the value of those efforts is often questionable.

Learn what to do to craft amazing documentation that users love to read

Migrating frameworks are costly not only to you and your environment. Do we ever stop it?

Finding more persuasive, less manipulative ways to give pull request feedback.