One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical infrastructure...
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Airtable may look like a spreadsheet in the cloud, but it’s actually more like a relational database in the cloud with its own development environment. That’s an oversimplification: Airtable has...
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The unique approach of the Rust programming language results in better code with fewer compromises than C, C++, Go, and the other languages you probably use. It also gets updated...
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Suse has open sourced the code for the NeuVector container runtime security platform under an Apache 2.0 license on GitHub, less than three months after acquiring the company. Container runtime...
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Industry clouds are nothing new. In the beginning, public clouds providers abounded until the market normalized around the big three: Google, Microsoft, and AWS. The players that could not keep...
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When building modern applications, managing access permissions during operational events is tricky. Security best practices specify that engineers—developers and operations engineers—should have as little access as possible to the production...
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Perhaps there’s a planet with perfect software, but as Google’s Chris DiBona writes, that planet isn’t the one we live on. As such, developers are left with a trade-off: Tread cautiously...
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Parcel CSS, a Rust-based CSS parser, compiler, and minifier, was announced this week and is being positioned as a tool offering benefits in performance and minification. Written in the Rust...
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As cloud computing architecture comes of age, the ways we define success should mature as well. In 2021, I pointed out that optimizing cloud computing is more of a binary...
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Version 8 of the IPython REPL (read-eval-print-loop) has arrived, with enhancements for code formatting, auto-suggestions, and tracebacks. Unveiled January 12, IPython 8, which is under the Project Jupyter umbrella, has...
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