Just 'validate third-party code before using it', says Euro body

Artist Mitch Gerads is perhaps best known for his award-winning collaborations with writer Tom King which deconstructed the mental health struggles of less popular DC superheroes such as Adam Stran…

Download this collection of short stories about the excitement, frustrations, and challenges associated with learning IT automation.

Intro This post walks through a ‘hello world’ GitOps example I use to demonstrate key GitOps principles. If you’re not aware, GitOps is a term coined in 2017 to encapsulate certai…

There are countless arguments about words that we often don’t understand the way someone else might. Words like education, learning, merit, talent, skill, privilege, smart and successful. The…

The Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural map replaces geographic accuracy with closeness in terms of values.

The Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol, or GNAP (“g-nap”), is currently being developed in an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group. Here, I’ll discuss why GNAP is being developed and what its upcoming first release might mean for you. The proposed new GNAP auth standard grew out of two competing efforts, TxAuth and OAuth.xyz.…

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In this article, we have looked a slight understanding of how MTA's (Mail Transfer Agents) work and a list of the best and most used MTA's on Linux systems.

In the last part of this series, we launched a custom Jupyter Notebook Server backed by a shared PVC to prepare and process the raw dataset. In the current tutorial, let’s utilize the dataset to train and save a TensorFlow model. The saved model will be stored in another shared PVC which will be accessed…

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on how observability design and architecture need to start with the fundamentals: keeping people and process at the center of it all. In Part 1, we discussed how and why people and processes are keys to achieving significant change and progress with any IT and engineering function.…

Explaining the power of collaborative fiction on the web—particularly the extremely compelling work of the SCP Foundation.

Bored seeing the same wallpapers every day? This article will show you how to automatically set new wallpapers using Styli.sh on Linux.

Tricentis just released its first How the World’s Top Organizations Test report, which analyzes how industry leaders test the software that their business and the world relies on. For this first-of-its-kind report, we interviewed 100 quality leaders at Fortune 500 or global equivalent organizations and major government agencies across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Although…

On today's Heavy Networking podcast we discuss network compliance. The big idea is to rethink how you do compliance so that the process is automation friendly and accommodates all the network device types you have to manage. We're sponsored by Itential and our guest is Chris Wade, CTO.

What the beleaguered operator should do with $66 billion from Congress.

Rural and tribal communities across the nation have been looking to renewable energy sources to achieve energy sovereignty. Here in Washington, the Lummi Nation has long held a goal of becoming self-sufficient in energy production. Now, a program at Northwest Indian College is training students in solar and wind energy production, with the aim of creating a microgrid so both campus and reservation can be energy independent.

We look at the common issues in low-code platforms and how a well-thought-out design and supporting features can be used to mitigate these issues.?

This article was written as a complement to a meetup organized by DevelopersBR, aiming to cover some basics of distributed tracing and how…

For today's sysadmin, many companies expect you to have cross-platform knowledge, network knowledge, and application knowledge. Add to that a dash of programming ability, a pinch of sysadmin experience, a heaping portion of social skills, and a fanatical commitment to reliability and automation. What do we call this new, post-modern sysadmin? Do we use the same term and simply stretch the responsibilities? Or do we give this evolved role a new name?

The first season of “The Mandalorian” last year wasn’t just a great show, it was the result of an entirely new paradigm in film and TV production. Stagecraft, the enormous LED-wall volume ILM used to shoot that season has since been expanded and updated to be better, faster and easier to use. In a behind-the-scenes […]

“The Mandalorian” was a pretty good show. On that most people seem to agree. But while a successful live-action Star Wars TV series is important in its own right, the way this particular show was made represents a far greater change, perhaps the most important since the green screen. The cutting edge tech (literally) behind […]

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

Certain mental tools that help athletes in the short-term can be harmful in the long run

It’s not their fault your build broke!

There's a primary election on August 3, and it’s a big one. Seattle’s entire progressive project is at stake.

Want to dabble in the Internet of Things but don't know where to start? Our friends at Microsoft have developed something fun for you.