Software containers are all the rage these days. They bring a lot of benefits and may push forward the revision of entire software stacks developed in-house, for good reasons. Containers are at the base of the cloud native phenomenon, and they bring many benefits to IT systems. However, the emphasis put on container technologies and…

No one’s moving to Kubernetes just because they like the name or because everyone’s doing it. Rather, organizations adopt Kubernetes anticipating business advantages, including outcomes like cost savings over time, improved performance and increased security. There are many different ways to realize these efficiency, reliability and security benefits. For example, your team may ship features…

"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science." Ada Lovelace Imagination is the determining factor that precedes invention, the creation of things. As Ada Lovelace pointed out to us, before conceiving, one must imagine. Hegel, a little earlier, had again noted the…

After listening to customer challenges with data pipelines while at Heroku, DeVaris Brown and Ali Hamidi decided to take on those pain points when Heroku changed strategic directions. That became the basis for their company Meroxa. “They left a huge void in the marketplace. As you're probably familiar with, Heroku has basically become synonymous with…

New approaches to applications call for new approaches to data management. Ten years ago, many organizations could stay on top of their data with traditional databases, data warehouses and data recovery methodologies. Today, data is being tightly coupled with applications through Linux containers. Increasingly, those containers are being orchestrated through Kubernetes, which, according to the…

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The mass migration to the public cloud has sparked increased interest in telemetry to monitor and manage hundreds and thousands of APIs.

Why should you treat API security differently from web application security in general? They're two completely different things.

New levels of diligence are required to secure the new breed of cloud-native applications and microservices.

Appian updated its low-code platform with a set of visual tools that enables developers to aggregate app data with the help of a DBA.

Find out all about low code vs no-code platforms and which is the best one for web and app development

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People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution

Magic first: Acar and the folks at Penguin are offering a limited-edition deck of special cards to go with The Practice. It launched today. Persistence: Today is the 200th episode of my podcast Aki…

Compare tmux, GNU Screen, Konsole, and Terminator to see which is the best fit for you.

In the previous blog post in this series, we figured out that you might not need link-layer addresses on point-to-point links. We also started exploring whether you need network-layer addresses on individual interfaces but didn’t get very far. We’ll fix that today and discover the secrets behind IP address-per-interface design. In the early days of computer networking, there were three common addressing paradigms:

The whiteboard, despite being designed specifically for schools at first, became a huge hit with the business world before schools really embraced it.

This might be the workplace question of the decade. Does the boss buy your time or your productivity? In the pre-industrial age, when we worked from home (“cottage industries”) workers …

APIs are fueling new digital transformations, powering innovative customer experiences and hiding complexity in the back end.

Woman in my cottagecore group posted she found this at her local thrift shop and basically she's about to be murdered by a haunted dress and painting. pic.twitter.com/ZN8eY7idiO— Rad Tasia, Powerful and Dynamic (@GroovyTasia) May 6, 2021

A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.

Basecamp Management Somehow Less Self-Aware Than Andrew Yang In the lead-up to the Chappelle Show sketch ‘When Keepin’ It Real Goes Wrong’, Dave Chappelle gives the following pretty great advice: “It’s good to be real sometimes. It’s good to be phony sometimes. Yes, I said it. Phony! You think I’m this nice in real life? F$ck that son!”

This article is a part of Docker tutorials and explains the Docker container lifecycle along with Docker container commands.

The kernel's BPF virtual machine allows programs loaded from user space to be safely run in the kernel's context. That functionality would be of limited use, however, without the ability for those programs to interact with the rest of the kernel. The interface between BPF and the kernel has been kept narrow for a number of good reasons, including safety and keeping the kernel in control of the system. The 5.13 kernel, though, contains a feature that could, over time, widen that interface considerably: the ability to directly call kernel functions from BPF programs.

[This is from my Substack newsletter, The Magnet – Mark] Satoru Iwata (1959-2015) was Nintendo’s beloved fourth president and CEO. A new book, Ask Iwata, collects interviews with him to form …