A corporate axiom is changing, shifting from “Big eats small” to “Fast eats slow.” But change doesn’t happen overnight. While Agile and lean methods continue to chip away at the status quo, ...

How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...

As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...

A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they ...

The number of tools engineers use to provision software architecture in the cloud is starting to get a little out of hand. There are many competing ways to do one thing. Most ...

In Steven Bellovin’s book, "Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year's Hackers," (2015) he wrote: "Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly, something is wrong ...

On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt ...

CircleCI has added a free unlimited access tier to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO, said in contrast to other 'freemium' offerings, CircleCI's free tier provides developers and ...

Organizations plan to address access management over the next 12 months, as the need to secure and streamline infrastructure-wide access controls serves as a prerequisite to other initiatives, like zero-trust. This was ...

One of the biggest cybersecurity risks involves vulnerabilities in the application layer. After all, the best firewall is useless if the web application itself is vulnerable. Many companies have worked to mitigate these ...

Recently, there's been a lot of attention paid to software supply chain security. In particular, here’s a quote from the May 2021 presidential executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity: “The Federal ...

The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they ...