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The Great Market Convergence is Coming
Don Macvittie | | converged toolchain, convergence, devops tools, mergers and acquisitions, planningWhen you look around tech markets—almost any tech market—you can see an obvious overlap. Tons of markets that are complementary and that take different approaches to solving the same problem, or markets ...
What Should Elon Musk Do? | Passwordless Future: Tense | WebKit iOS Monopoly Ends?
Richi Jennings | | Apple, devsecops, Digital Markets Act, Elon Musk, Europe, FIDO, free speech, iOS, passwordless, Such as we are made of—such we be, The Long View, twitter, WebKitIn this week’s The Long View: Everyone has Twitter advice for Elon Musk, passwordless vision is vacuous, and Apple prevented from forcing Safari ...
Report Finds Most Log4Shell Vulnerabilities Unpatched
A report published today by Rezilion, a provider of a platform for tracking and analyzing software vulnerabilities, found that despite all the attention the Java zero-day Log4Shell vulnerability attracted, it appears that ...
SolarWinds Unveils Unified Observability Platform
SolarWinds this week launched an observability platform that makes available a range of tools and technologies that the company has developed and acquired via a common user interface. Rohini Kasturi, chief product ...
Report Finds Software Engineering Productivity Gains
An analysis of the time 23,000 software engineers spent working in 2021 that was published this week by Jellyfish, a provider of an engineering management platform (EMP), finds cycle times on average ...
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
Richi Jennings | | 802.11be, agile, Apple TV+, Broadcom, DataOps, devops, google, Great Resignation, Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise, SEO, Severance, The Long View, WFH, Wi-Fi 7In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation ...
What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?
If you're just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you've probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in ...
Checkmarx Finds Malicious Open Source PyPi Repository
Checkmarx, a provider of a platform for testing application security, this week disclosed it has discovered a malicious instance of a PyPi repository for Python code that has been downloaded more than ...
The Problem With Security
As an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have ...
Encore Platform for Running Distributed Apps in the Cloud Arrives
Encore has made generally available a namesake backend development engine for rapidly building scalable distributed IT environments across multiple cloud platforms. Fresh off raising $3 million in seed funding, Encore CEO André ...
Blast Radius of GitHub Breach Major Security Concern
Mike Vizard | | code repo, developers, github, GitHub breach, security breach, Software Supply ChainThe extent to which software supply chains may be compromised in the wake of a security breach disclosed by GitHub may include thousands of organizations. GitHub has revealed that unauthorized parties compromised ...
Quali Adds Control Plane to Platform to Manage IaC
Quali has added a control plane to its Torque platform to give DevOps teams the ability to consistently provision and orchestrate infrastructure across a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Amir Rosenberg, vice president ...
