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With the launch of VMware Cloud, has taken a step closer to offering organizations a single platform for shifting resources across multi- and hybrid cloud environments. Through a single interface, VMware customers can now run VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud Foundation on on-premises and Azure, Google Cloud and  (AWS). Previously, this capability was largely limited…

Oooh hey hi, remember me, a droplet of water? You won’t believe where I’ve been lately: inside a pipe in the walls of your house, then you drank me and I spent some time circulating throughout your body, then we parted ways in a particularly undignified manner. Since then I’ve been splitting my time between local city sewer pipes, drifting up into the air and hanging out with my friends in a cloud, and then...

Artist Tyler Hobbs shares his thoughts on generative art, creative coding, interesting algorithms, and the difficulties of making art.

Difficult times require more hardware than necessary

Nope, you don't know how to validate an email address. Even if you think you'd get the domain part right, fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.

Alright. We’re starting off with a fiery blog post title. Let’s do this.

ACID and BASE represent two design philosophies at opposite ends of the consistency-accessibility spectrum. Whaaat?

It's good to think about simplicity in terms of the tradeoffs we make when we take a particular decision.

Git branches allow you to keep different versions of your code cleanly separated. Here's a look at how they work and why you should know about them.

I'm running a speed test on the new Space Jam site: the 1996 version on dial-up VS. the 2021 version on a 3G connection. Who will win?

It’s more productive to offer directions to someone who has already decided to go on the journey. “How do I get there?” is a much easier transaction than, “you must go.&#822…

I have several computers. I've got a laptop at work, a workstation at home, a Raspberry Pi (or four), a Pocket CHIP, a Chromebook running various forms of Linux, and so on. I used to set up my user environment on each computer by more or less following the same steps, and I often told myself that I enjoyed that each one was slightly unique.

Whenever I start learning a new programming language, I focus on defining variables, writing a statement, and evaluating expressions. Once I have a general understanding of those concepts, I can usually figure out the rest on my own. Most programming languages have some similarities, so once you know one programming language, learning the next one is a matter of figuring out the unique details and recognizing the differences.

The reasons people contribute to free and open source (FOSS) projects has been a topic of much interest. However, the research on this topic dates back 10 or more years, and much has changed in the world since then. This article shares seven insights from a recent research study that revisited old motivation studies and asked open source contributors what motivates them today.

Learning by blinkenlights!

Years ago on a trip to Newfoundland, retired traveler Jackie Jansen began documenting a strangely persistent phenomenon: front doors raised high above the ground. Odder still: these elevated entries had no stairs to speak of, leaving her to wonder why. It turns out there are competing theories about these unusual portals. Locals told Jansen and

Is this the end of the police cruiser car chase?

The optimism and possibility that come from training and learning in groups is a miracle. It means that, with a little effort, we can level up, become more productive and enjoy the work more tomorr…

Review and summary of the key ideas in Cal Newport's latest book, A World Without Email. Recommended reading.

It's taken over a decade, but the Supreme Court has finally said that Google's copying of the Sun Java API for Android was...

Take a cue from the decades-old iron triangle of planning and learn how balancing different variables can help agile software teams scale.

Building a weather reactive ORBneXt-like project using Circuit Playground and CircuitPython. The code on the computer gets current temperature information from openweathermap.org, reformats it, and…

Kubernetes is everywhere. Transactional apps, video streaming services and machine learning workloads are finding a home on this ever-growing platform. But what about databases? If you had asked me this question five years ago, the answer would have been a resounding “No!” — based on my experience in development and operations. In the following years,…

Web development in 2021 is so dominated by JavaScript and its many frontend frameworks, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the traditional server-side web application architecture is not only alive and well — but thriving. 55.3% of Django developers who took the annual StackOverflow survey said they will continue to use it; and 49.3% said…

Do you think you can escape the problems of microservices by implementing a monolith? Not so fast.