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.?

It’s not their fault your build broke!

A Cycloid tool can reverse engineer code used to manually provision cloud infrastructure so it can be rebuilt more securely.

If you didn't gather off the bat from the title, the problem with developing front end projects isn't that it's harder or more complicated, it's that *you* made it harder and more complicated. You have the power of choice, so choose what you want to do - because the choices are overwhelming and there's enough regular world overwhelming for a lifetime right now.

Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.

OpenShift is built on Kubernetes, so why would DevOps teams pay for it? In this piece, we’ll compare the differences and benefits of each container orchestration platform.

Cloud engineers are looking to policy-as-code to prevent cloud misconfigurations, according to "The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report," which surveyed 300 US cloud engineering and security professionals. It found that adoption of open source policy as code has increased in the last year, going from 31% in last year's study to 39% saying it…

The goal is straightforward, but getting there has proven to be a challenge: how to offer real- or near real-time access to data that is continually refreshed on an as-needed basis across a number of different distributed environments. Consequently, as different systems of data and their locations can proliferate across different network environments — including…

Whether you’re just beginning your monitoring journey or are a seasoned pro, being reminded of monitoring’s core principles is still helpful. From my own experience as a former site reliability engineer to what I’ve seen from our customers at Circonus, here are 10 essential monitoring tenants to live by. 1. Don’t Measure Rates You can…

Survey puts potential losses at $126 million per business for not grasping more holistic development productivity measures.

To remain competitive in today’s market, companies need to innovate constantly to keep up with advancing technologies and ever-rising consumer expectations. The sad truth is that a lot of established companies are weighed down by clunky legacy infrastructure systems. Because these monolithic systems take so many resources to manage, maintain, and upgrade, innovation tends to…

“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 […]

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?

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.

ObservabilityIf you do software-as-a-service development and you have paying customers, you at some point learn about the need for operational moni...

The Internet's waters are vast unchartered territory. This post will look at the difference between the deep web and dark web!

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already…

Actually, the sign will never be big enough Make the announcement louder. Make the logo bigger. Yell. Call more people on the phone to sell them an extended warranty. Send more emails. Hustle harde…

The ship of Theseus image is from Brooks Sterritt and Magritte's pipe is from Noah Veltman. Update: See also Mine Captcha from XKCD:

Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the "dataome" for the physical, biological, and human worlds.

10-unit split-flap display. 3D-printed flaps. Modular.

Recently I’d lost a bit of motivation (and inspiration) for photography. Maybe a trip down memory lane is just what I need…

This is a Fallout-style Raspberry Pi enclosure for Pi2/3 & Waveshare 3.5" HDMI LCD

hawkeye shares: This is a Fallout-style Raspberry Pi enclosure for Pi2/3 & Waveshare 3.5″ HDMI LCD download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D print…

The OB-4 Magic Radio from Teenage Engineering is essentially a powerful Bluetooth speaker with several bonus features. It can be used via Bluetooth or line-in, can receive radio stations, and can also be switched to a "disk" mode with three "channels:" "Ambient" creates a soundscape plucked from

Within the construction industry, nearly all use spreadsheets to manage aspects of their operations such as staff, resources, health & safety and costs. Although there are some obvious benefits to using spreadsheets including access and cost, they require advanced manipulation to be efficient for ma

Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.