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Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem

OutSystems insiders talk technical debt

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity

30 Nov 11:34 | 137

How Kubernetes simplifies the operation of fintech apps

From data security to automatic, safe scaling, we've got it covered

Putting security into DevOps is tougher than it looks

Cultural issues are the first thing to overcome, says Red Hat

GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office

Coding JS in your PJs here to stay

17 Nov 19:45 | 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

12 Nov 15:01 | 14

GitHub CEO forks off: Nat Friedman to quit this month, replacement will report to exec behind .NET Hot Reload fiasco

Chief product officer takes over world's palatable social network

03 Nov 19:54 | 8

Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero

Kubernetes under the covers, with a Microsoft flavour

03 Nov 14:24 | 8

GitHub Universe

OpenID-based security features added to GitHub Actions as usage doubles

Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event

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

27 Oct 15:30 | 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

22 Oct 13:08 | 46

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

14 Oct 13:00 | 6

Findability: Kubernetes does data discovery, too

Finding Big Data should not be as hard as storing it is expensive

VMware's K8s challenge advances with Tanzu Community Edition

Freebie can manage production container workloads in rival clouds

05 Oct 05:15 | 3

The data resilience inside of – and outside of – Kubernetes

GitHub Codespaces feels a bit too closed? Gitpod opens up OpenVSCode Server to escape Microsoft control

'Minimal' tweaks shared for all to see

29 Sep 10:44 | 2

Container security without governance is neither secure nor governed

Encryption in a Kubernetes environment

Getting Kubernetes up and running is one thing. Managing it successfully is quite another

Don’t be a Kubernetes dummy, download this ebook

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?

23 Sep 12:14 | 22

GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise

IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic

20 Sep 15:14 | 10

Popular

Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Parachute snagged on ship's bows

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation

At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case

How to coordinate 16 Arms

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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

17 Sep 11:22 | 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

Snyk: 50% of security jobs unfilled… any solution predicated on devs 'becoming security experts is doomed'

Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code

07 Sep 19:44 | 7

Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future

Tiers of a clown – or the early days of a better service model?

06 Sep 08:30 | 32

JavaScript library downloaded 3m times a week exposes apps to hijacking via evil proxy configs

03 Sep 00:35 | 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

31 Aug 15:00 | 34

What's the top programming language? It's not JavaScript but Python, says IEEE survey

Sounds sus to us – most talked about maybe

25 Aug 16:02 | 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

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

18 Aug 17:38 | 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

03 Aug 18:57 | 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

28 Jul 22:14 | 21

DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research

Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption

28 Jul 15:15 | 30

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

27 Jul 23:03 | 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

NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently

Password-stealing package outed by security firm evokes sense of déjà vu

21 Jul 23:59 | 5

JavaScript, GitHub, AWS crowned winners in massive survey of 32,000 developers

Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more

16 Jul 13:00 | 20

Systems Approach

What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for

If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here

13 Jul 21:58 | 30

Security warning deluge from 'npm audit' is driving developers to distraction

Can we have less infosec theater, please?

09 Jul 06:32 | 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

01 Jul 21:35 | 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?

30 Jun 01:31 | 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

29 Jun 22:03 | 7

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

Community to think outside the pants

15 Jun 06:18 | 212

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)

Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource

02 Jun 19:35 | 44

After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'

Gentoo and Raku call foul

26 May 21:16 | 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

25 May 21:54 | 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

13 May 20:32 | 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

07 May 18:06 | 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

04 May 17:30 | 2

House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason

Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do

04 May 09:15 | 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

30 Apr 23:29 | 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

Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it

30 Apr 06:23 | 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

29 Apr 15:50 | 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

21 Apr 06:23 | 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

13 Apr 11:48 | 68

'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*

Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame

07 Apr 16:33 | 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

01 Apr 15:18 | 12

And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho

Programming pioneers bag $1m prize

01 Apr 01:03 | 26

Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama

If the license doesn't fit, you must commit

29 Mar 19:50 | 5

OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers

For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure

'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

25 Mar 17:17 | 90

Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects

Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package

25 Mar 08:24 | 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

19 Mar 08:50 | 24

SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China

Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...

18 Mar 15:08 | 7

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

11 Mar 14:02 | 120

This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago

10 Mar 23:58 | 51

Sign of the primes: Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service

Cryptographic software assurance backed by Google, Red Hat, Purdue U

09 Mar 17:00 | 10

Python Package Index nukes 3,653 malicious libraries uploaded soon after security shortcoming highlighted

Unauthorized versions of CuPy and other projects flood PyPI

02 Mar 20:09 | 10

Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?

We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame

01 Mar 08:15 | 151

Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs

Biased terms can't be ‘grandfathered’ in either – that’s also on vendor's list of language best avoided

01 Mar 03:58 | 272

IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement

Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems

23 Feb 11:32 | 28

Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

Popular programming language, at the top of its game, still struggles to please everyone

20 Feb 13:10 | 78

People actually write novels about DevOps – and an author spoke about his take at Dynatrace's Perform event

Be honest, what's YOUR 'bus factor'?

16 Feb 15:22 | 10

Accenture, Capita, IBM jump on £800m framework to make the NHS more agile as UK.gov announces further reforms

Fail fast, fail often

15 Feb 10:32 | 24

Looking for a new IT job? This week's list includes roles for software engineers, DC managers, cloud experts and support specialists

If you're keen to place an ad, contact us – it's free

Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack

Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries

10 Feb 20:35 | 33

Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account

Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation

08 Feb 17:00 | 43

Humble Apple Pie: Cupertino sweetens pot to get its DTK prototype machines returned after developer backlash

Tosses in extra cash 'to recognize the tremendous effort ... put into creating amazing universal apps'

08 Feb 12:18 | 13

SitePoint hacked: Hashed, salted passwords pinched from web dev learning site via GitHub tool pwnage

If you started off there, best change your reused credentials

05 Feb 19:05 | 4

New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO

Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back

In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on

02 Feb 16:30 | 121

Clearing up this mesh: Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but went ahead and made one anyway

Group aims to represent 'the voice of the user'

02 Feb 10:07 | 1

It didn't (sob)... even make it (sniff)... to GA: Microsoft to pull the plug on Azure Service Fabric Mesh

A sad-faced engineer leads it round the back of the barn. A single shot rings out

29 Jan 14:13 | 10

Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain

Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare?

28 Jan 18:22 | 60

GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth'

27 Jan 13:00 | 57

A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript

O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'

26 Jan 15:07 | 27

Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job

WARP Drive process automation code said to be 'extremely valuable'

24 Jan 10:04 | 105

Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol

Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'

19 Jan 22:56 | 80

How can you flip your software delivery ops from own goals to meaningful goals?

Tune in and we'll take you from benchmarking to insight

It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol

Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe

14 Jan 01:52 | 138

Netherlands minnow Red Kubes releases open-source Community Edition of its Otomi Kubernetes wrangler

Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days

12 Jan 14:32 | 3

Developers! These 3 weird tricks will make you a global hero

Good for users and good for you

11 Jan 09:30 | 70

React team observes that running everything on the client can be costly, aims to fix it with Server Components

Server-side React solves 'many other problems we have had for a while' says Core developer

07 Jan 11:01 | 51

Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down

Service restored, code silo gets license to serve Iranian programmers

05 Jan 20:25 | 50

GitHub will no longer present a cookie notification banner – because it's scrapping non-essential cookies

Privacy turns out to be fairly easy

17 Dec 17:00 | 61

GitHub turns on money tap for corporate open-source donations, turns off the lights with dark mode design

Welcome to the GitHub Universe

08 Dec 17:30 | 5

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker

Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution

03 Dec 11:52 | 9

COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic

Microsoft's cloud repo rental biz finds a silver lining in 2020

03 Dec 00:58 | 4

GitHub's journey towards microservices and more: 'We actually have our own version of Ruby that we maintain'

The Reg talks to Software Engineering veep Sha Ma

01 Dec 09:15 | 15

Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies

Hallucinate, Desegregate, Mediate, Try not to hate: INXS of 25 years on, PHP liberates the number eight

26 Nov 17:00 | 74

Docker finally enforces pull rate limits, but reckons only 1.5% of users are affected

Amnesty period ends, time to control those 'runaway processes' or pay up

19 Nov 11:47 | 2

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