SBOMs alone are not enough for software supply chain security because they do not address the tampering of software artifacts. There’s a new framework for that.
Even a year after the security hole at the heart of the open source Java logging library Apache Log4j was revealed, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that hackers are still using Log4Shell successfully,
A URL Scheme is like "http://..." or "ftp://...". Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don't have much control over, but actually, you do! What
Which Countries Have the Most Popular Top-Level Domains in the World?
The team at Nominus.com has created a comprehensive guide to the most powerful top-level domains around the world, which can provide fascinating insights such as which countries have the most expansive internet presence, and which domains may be the most influential for your needs.
Consistency without Clocks: The Fauna Distributed Transaction Protocol
Transactions are hard. Distributed transactions are harder. Distributed transactions over the WAN are final boss hardness. - Andy Pavlo Fauna is a distributed database platform that supports strictly serializable, externally consistent transactions...
How Apache Arrow Is Changing the Big Data Ecosystem
Arrow makes analytics workloads more efficient for modern CPU and GPU hardware, which makes working with large data sets easier and less costly. #bigdata #datascience #opensource #datastorage
Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. The further the memory
Interview: Why AWS prefers VMs for code isolation, and tips on developing for Lambda • DEVCLASS
At last week’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, DevClass caught up Anthony Liguori, AWS Distinguished Engineer to talk about virtualization, the newly launched Snapstart and best practise when building serverless applications with Lambda. Liguori is a virtualization specialist who was project leader for QEMU for nearly 6 years while at IBM, and now works on Amazon’s […]
The advances in AI over the last year are mind-boggling. I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. It will be easier for a student to prompt ChatGPT […]