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A conversation about Easter eggs hiding in software, why they’re fun, and why they might not always be seen as good things by IT admins.

What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp Vault is a tool designed to address the challenges of managing and securing secrets in modern IT environments. Vault provides a secure, centralized system for storing and managing secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and TLS certificates. Vault supports a wide range of secret types and can be extended to support custom secrets as well. Vault is designed with security in mind and provides several layers of protection for secrets, including encryption, access controls, and auditing.

The most important language enhancements that have been added to Java in the last 20 years

Wasm is a lightweight, efficient, secure runtime that's perfect for devices with limited resources. It's also flexible and platform-independent, which makes it easy to develop applications for a wide range of hardware.

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. David Eastman takes the beta for a spin.

Would you pay $200 a month for generative AI services? It may sound crazy, but I think it’s entirely possible, particularly if the tech and media industries don’t repeat the mistakes of…

Why do we have so many Terraform orchestration projects? There’s a deeper challenge with the operations contracts (a.k.a. the APIs) between the users and the infrastructure.

Developer productivity, multicluster headaches and the edge learning curve: Which challenges with Kubernetes are you facing as you grow?

Generative AI has been dominating the news lately—but what exactly is it? Here’s what you need to know, and what it means for developers.

The Complex World of Design Principles/Patterns When I was in college, we were introduced to Object-Oriented Programming. We learned the concept of abstracti...

When I joined the first Agile team as an engineer, I thought it was a very good idea. For some parts of it, I still think that. The idea…

Salutations friends, today we delve into the exciting world of consensus algorithms for blockchain systems. Now, many of you may already be turned off by that sentence but hear me out! This information is not only important for your everyday life, but also for understanding what the next decade of our lives is going to be molded by. Especially with the recent announcement of "FedNow" (a digital network for the U.S. Dollar) and the continued work by the U.S. Federal reserve on its Central bank Di

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Baking security into the CI/CD pipeline enables businesses to find misconfigurations and other security risks before they affect users.

They require different approaches for storage and querying, making it a challenge to use a single solution. But InfluxDB is working to consolidate them into one.

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Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]

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A CTO should be more involved in the strategy than the engineering itself

Say no to advanced features, and embrace simplicity on your way to operational bliss.

Why monolithic workflows might be the better option for your short-running workflow jobs

Some reflections about using functional programming style in web programming and design of web applications.

My mistake was a good learning experience for me and a reminder that I must not become complacent.