Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined
Analysis Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison
Devops29 Jun 2022 | 94
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FabricScape: Microsoft warns of vuln in Service Fabric
Not trying to spin this as a Linux security hole, surely?
Devops29 Jun 2022 | 9
Visual Studio adds ability to edit code in All-in-One Search
Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite
Devops28 Jun 2022 | 4
For a few days earlier this year, rogue GitHub apps could have hijacked countless repos
A bit of a near-hit for the software engineering world
Devops21 Jun 2022 | 5
RubyGems polishes security practices with multi-factor authentication push
Faced with rising software supply-chain attacks, package registries are locking things down
Devops16 Jun 2022 | 1
Disaster management needs a well-planned pipeline
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Travis CI exposes free-tier users' secrets – new claim
API can be manipulated to reveal tokens in clear text log data
Devops14 Jun 2022 | 4
DevFest for Ukraine, June 14-15
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GitHub drops Atom bomb: Open-source text editor mothballed by end of year
Embrace, extend technology into other products ... and extinguish
Devops08 Jun 2022 | 58
GitLab spots huge opportunity for DevOps platform as revenue soars
All companies will need to embrace modern software development, says CEO, and we'll be waiting for them
Devops07 Jun 2022 | 3
Amazon finally opens doors to its serverless analytics
Still managing app servers by hand? What is this, 2012?
Devops02 Jun 2022 |
Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7
Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about
Devops26 May 2022 | 42
How to explain what an API is – and why they matter
Systems Approach Some of us have used them for decades, some are seeing them for the first time on marketing slides
Devops25 May 2022 | 21
Helping the helpers: Managed Kubernetes relieves some of the burden for software developers in the SaaS era
How to stay in control and efficient
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If you're using the ctx Python package, bad news: Vandal added info-stealing code
Updated Domain associated with maintainer email expired, taken over in supply-chain attack
Devops24 May 2022 | 9
DigitalOcean sets sail for serverless seas with Functions feature
Might be something for those who find AWS, Azure, GCP overly complex
Devops24 May 2022 | 1
381,000-plus Kubernetes API servers 'exposed to internet'
Firewall isn't a made-up word from the Hackers movie, people
Devops23 May 2022 | 17
GitLab version 15 goes big on visibility and observability
GitOps fans can take a spin on the free tier for pull-based deployment
Devops23 May 2022 |
Red Hat Kubernetes security report finds people are the problem
Puny human brains baffled by K8s complexity, leading to blunder fears
Devops18 May 2022 | 21
Mystery of industry-targeting backdoored NPM JavaScript packages solved
Yup, 'the intern' did it
Devops12 May 2022 | 11
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NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth
Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum
City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all
ESA ruins our day with some bad news
China says it has photographed all of Mars from orbit
Enjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures
FBI warning: Crooks are using deepfake videos in interviews for remote gigs
Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database?
PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"
'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him'
Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab
End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger
Trio accused of selling $88m of pirated Avaya licenses
Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say
Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined
Analysis Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison
IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch this week
It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem
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Atlassian boasts strong Q3 revenue growth in wake of two-week outage
Customer credits unlikely 'to be material to the financial statements'
Devops29 Apr 2022 | 4
So, what happened with GitHub, Heroku, and those raided private repos?
Analysis Who knew what when and what did they do?
Devops21 Apr 2022 | 10
GitHub's Dependabot learns to report bad news you can use
Instead of just raising the alarm, automated code-scold will flag where the fire is
Devops15 Apr 2022 |
Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage actually did
Who, Us? Day 10 of ongoing disruption: Have some sympathy for admins, it's a difficult read
Devops14 Apr 2022 | 91
At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks
Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups
Devops11 Apr 2022 | 48
Perforce now pulls Puppet's strings: Takeover announced
What looked like Plan B is now Plan A for config management biz
Devops11 Apr 2022 | 3
Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access
Majority of affected users still wondering where their data went
Devops11 Apr 2022 | 43
Google now requires two staff to sign off each Go change
Move is supposed to be double-plus good for supply-chain security
Devops05 Apr 2022 | 16
Docker goes double unicorn with $105m Series C funding and $2.1b valuation
Troubled container company may escape confines of its doldrums
Devops31 Mar 2022 | 11
Puppet publishes DevOps salaries report
Gender pay gap narrows, but the US remains top of pay-packet pops
Devops30 Mar 2022 |
HashiCorp co-founder on dodging cloud chaos, supporting open source
Interview 'Not all open source is created equal' says Armon Dadgar
Devops28 Mar 2022 | 1
JavaScript library updated to wipe files from Russian computers
Package used by big apps now drops anti-war text files on desktops
Devops18 Mar 2022 | 56
Coding in a war zone: A Ruby developer's life in Kharkiv
Interview @zverok asks dev world for support as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues
Devops17 Mar 2022 | 27
NSA spies ample opportunities to harden Kubernetes
You can trust them, they probably know all the weak spots. Ahem.
Devops16 Mar 2022 | 1
Kubernetes container runtime CRI-O has make-me-root flaw
Cr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers
Devops15 Mar 2022 | 1
The long-term strategy behind IBM's Red Hat purchase
Senior veep for software raps about containers and OpenShift to Wall Street
Devops11 Mar 2022 | 23
GitHub puts prebuilt Codespaces into public beta
Say goodbye to your coffee break
Devops25 Feb 2022 | 3
Temporal picks up $103m for workflow-as-code platform
Microservice orchestration platform aims for scalable apps
Devops16 Feb 2022 | 1
Nebulon adds Ansible support for infrastructure deployment
Dips into Red Hat's Playbook for automation
Devops16 Feb 2022 | 3
Users report trouble with Azure DevOps services
Updated Thanks Microsoft! Engineers in Europe get to finish early today
Devops15 Feb 2022 | 6
FYI: Support ends for older Visual Studio versions in April
Showers of work for admins
Devops11 Feb 2022 | 10
You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual
Systems Approach And see the importance of open and accessible operations
Devops09 Feb 2022 | 80
Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?
Review Top request from devs? A Linux version
Devops25 Jan 2022 | 89
Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not
Re:Invent The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity
Devops30 Nov 2021 | 138
GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office
Coding JS in your PJs here to stay
Devops17 Nov 2021 | 2
We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator
Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6.0 update aims to change that
Devops12 Nov 2021 | 14
GitHub CEO forks off: Nat Friedman to quit this month, replacement will report to exec behind .NET Hot Reload fiasco
Updated Chief product officer takes over world's palatable social network
Devops03 Nov 2021 | 8
Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero
Interview Kubernetes under the covers, with a Microsoft flavour
Devops03 Nov 2021 | 8
OpenID-based security features added to GitHub Actions as usage doubles
GitHub Universe Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event
Devops28 Oct 2021 |
It's that time of the year again when GitHub does its show'n'tell of features – some new and others kinda new
Universe event reveals iterative improvements but no big bang
Devops27 Oct 2021 | 5
IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms
Exodus, movement of the people... to the Middle East or elsewhere
Devops22 Oct 2021 | 47
Want a piece of GitLab? It's going to cost you: IPO price per share settles at $77
One-stop shop all the way to the bank
Devops14 Oct 2021 | 6
VMware's K8s challenge advances with Tanzu Community Edition
VMworld Freebie can manage production container workloads in rival clouds
Devops05 Oct 2021 | 3
GitHub Codespaces feels a bit too closed? Gitpod opens up OpenVSCode Server to escape Microsoft control
'Minimal' tweaks shared for all to see
Devops29 Sep 2021 | 2
DORA explorers see pandemic boost in numbers of 'elite' DevOps performers
Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves?
Devops23 Sep 2021 | 22
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic
Devops20 Sep 2021 | 10
Stressed-out IT workers, software devs – we're not being funny but have you tried rebooting your breathing?
Forget productivity, find a way to unplug and recover
Devops17 Sep 2021 | 27
Travis CI quietly fixed a bug that exposed secret keys
For at least a week, cloning a public repo made upstream environmental variables accessible
Devops15 Sep 2021 |
Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed'
Interview Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code
Devops07 Sep 2021 | 7
Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future
Opinion Tiers of a clown – or the early days of a better service model?
Devops06 Sep 2021 | 32
JavaScript library downloaded 3m times a week exposes apps to hijacking via evil proxy configs
PAC mania
Devops03 Sep 2021 | 7
Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies: New 'Business' subscription is here
Search for sustainable business model continues, but most usage will still be free
Devops31 Aug 2021 | 34
What's the top programming language? It's not JavaScript but Python, says IEEE survey
Sounds sus to us – most talked about maybe
Devops25 Aug 2021 | 61
GitLab 14.2 brings macOS 'build cloud' closed beta and improved Gitpod support among nearly 50 new features
Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub
Devops24 Aug 2021 |
Is this indeed the light-house top I see? Microsoft updates its container Linux, CBL-Mariner
Stripped-down OS prepares to unroll the birthday bunting
Devops18 Aug 2021 | 2
Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS
Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure
Devops03 Aug 2021 | 24
About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues, boffins say
Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, though
Devops28 Jul 2021 | 21
DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research
Interview Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption
Devops28 Jul 2021 | 31
GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers
Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco
Devops27 Jul 2021 | 3
Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day
Update now – and maybe firewall the thing off while you're at it
Devops22 Jul 2021 |
NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Password-stealing package outed by security firm evokes sense of déjà vu
Devops21 Jul 2021 | 5
JavaScript, GitHub, AWS crowned winners in massive survey of 32,000 developers
Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more
Devops16 Jul 2021 | 20
What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for
Systems Approach If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here
Devops13 Jul 2021 | 30
Security warning deluge from 'npm audit' is driving developers to distraction
Can we have less infosec theater, please?
Devops09 Jul 2021 | 17
Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters
Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study
Devops01 Jul 2021 | 7
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Maybe call it backseat programming for now?
Devops30 Jun 2021 | 18
Digital delinquent deletes developer's database during disastrous Docker deployment, defaults damned
NewsBlur RSS tracker accidentally left MongoDB store facing public internet during migration to containers
Devops29 Jun 2021 | 7
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
Devops15 Jun 2021 | 213
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
Devops02 Jun 2021 | 44
After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'
Updated Gentoo and Raku call foul
Devops26 May 2021 | 62
Surprise! Developers' days ruined by interruptions and meetings, GitHub finds
If you want to be happy at work, never meet more than twice a day
Devops25 May 2021 | 31
Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says
Cloud hyperscalers drive projects to slap restrictions on code use
Devops13 May 2021 | 29
GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope
Devops07 May 2021 | 9
Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end
Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says
Devops04 May 2021 | 2
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason
Column Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do
Devops04 May 2021 | 45
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff
Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp
Devops30 Apr 2021 | 22
Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us
Video Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it
Devops30 Apr 2021 | 19
JetBrains shoves TeamCity into the cloud, pitches Kotlin for build pipelines because YAML is 'really a pain'
No free plan: That's one way to avoid crypto-mining abuse of build minutes
Devops29 Apr 2021 | 6
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
Devops21 Apr 2021 | 21
Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x
Devops13 Apr 2021 | 68
'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*
Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame
Devops07 Apr 2021 | 8
Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door
Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives
Devops01 Apr 2021 | 12
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize
Devops01 Apr 2021 | 26
Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama
If the license doesn't fit, you must commit
Devops29 Mar 2021 | 5
OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers
For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure
Devops26 Mar 2021 |
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Watchdog bites Uncle Sam and Lockheed Martin over $14bn-and-counting efforts
Devops25 Mar 2021 | 91
Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
Updated Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package
Devops25 Mar 2021 | 55
Trail of Bits security peeps emit tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files to hopefully now get everyone's attention
Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning
Devops19 Mar 2021 | 24
SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China
Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...
Devops18 Mar 2021 | 8
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
Devops11 Mar 2021 | 120
