Renovate is a free tool by WhiteSource that allows automating dependency updates in software projects. Fully customizable with a setting to suit every workflow.

When he was training to fight George Foreman in the famous “rumble in the jungle,” Muhammad Ali waved off the famed knockout power of his rival, declaring that “his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.” Fast-forward to the present and Ali’s observation still packs a punch when it comes to describing one of…

There's a growing demand for embedded operating systems, and it's best when the one you build upon is open source. The RT-Thread project's R&D team has spent two years of research and intensive development to arrive at the project's latest offering: RT-Thread Smart.

Or, how to copy and paste from StackOverflow for fun and profit!

Being a polyglot developer, there would be some language you like over others and here are mine.

Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool integrated with GitHub. One common use case of GitHub Actions is for CI builds – a project can fairly easily start up a Docker container every time they push a commit (e.g.), and run their project’s tests in the container.

You might be asking yourself 'do people still self-host their databases'? Let's discuss the benefits of managed-services versus self-hosting, to help you decide.

Failure in computer systems is inevitable. Adopting Erlang's philosophy of "Let it crash" at the many layers of abstractions in software can have a huge positive impact on resiliency.

When it comes to cloud native technologies like containers, Kubernetes, microservices, serverless functions and API-centric design, Microsoft is taking a practical approach — leading with Azure and allowing customers to have their own way. For instance, the cloud software and services giant recently noted that at the end of July it would deliver a version…

In this article I want to share my findings on how to interpret the ZMAP file format.

Some projects and ideas are magnetic. They attract large numbers of people. And some are sticky. The folks who show up stick around and make the project part of their lives on an ongoing basis. Rar…

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If you think your software experience will let you build a hardware project easily, you might be a bit too ambitious. It's very different from software.

Suppose you’re working on a software system and need to implement user-logins using a userID and password. After a bit of research, you narrow it down to two possible options. Your first option is …

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If you have ever worked with a profiler, you should be aware that basically everything your CPU does may affect the results.

Why FEMA is denying disaster aid to Black families who’ve lived for generations in the Deep South.

Different IPC methods in microservices like REST API, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc... which developers should know.