System Architecture

In this latest entry of our Maintenance Matters series, we'll discuss Continuous Integration: what, why, and how.

RapidFort goes beyond SCA scans. Our container optimization platform finds and eliminates unused container components and hardens containers so you spend less time on vulnerability remediation. Build a secure container infrastructure and deploy smaller containers for faster load times all while bolstering security posture.

bandit is the name of an HTTP server I’ve been writing over the past several months. It is written entirely in Elixir and supports HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 over both secure and unsecure connections. As of version 0.3.2 (released today!), it should support almost all HTTP client connections, although full HTTP/2 compliance is still a work in progress (it currently scores 75% on the h2spec suite, with plans for 100% compliance by the end of the 0.3.x release train).

The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but

Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. Companies make purchasing decisions that end up lasting for one, two, and

Find out how thoughtbot’s Mission Control team collaborates for client delight.

Here’s the handy thing about cash: it gives customers scale. It does that by working the same way for everybody, everywhere it’s accepted. It’s also anonymous by nature, meaning i…

For sixteen years, ProjectVRM has encouraged development of tools and services that solve business problems from the customer side. This work is toward testing a theory: that free customers are mor…

GitOps practices promote storing all your configs in git repositories. Learn how to store your secrets in plain text.

SD is 1-week old, a cambrian explosion is underway. Check 23+ curated tools, services and user interfaces.

If we attach a cost to every software feature, could we use the usage as a proxy for demand?

D2 is a domain-specific language (DSL) that stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you write in text what you want diagrammed, we generate it.

Renovate is a free tool by Mend that allows automating dependency updates in software projects. Fully customizable with a setting to suit every workflow.

Automated dependency updates built into GitHub. Dependabot has 24 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I won’t introduce Dependabot. Lots and lots of developers use it daily on GitHub. I do use it as well. However, it suffers from two…

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Pixie Blog

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

The home team sits down with Liam Zhao, founder and CEO of Immersive, a startup that gives creators tools to produce engaging virtual content and events.

The home team discusses how Instagram’s evolving platform has alienated some creators, why AI and machine learning are moving on-premises, and why Amazon’s acquisition of the company behind the Roomba is striking from a privacy perspective.

Containers must be standardized to take advantage of their build once, deploy anywhere promise, Don MacVittie explains.

Being able to utilize multiple sources of truth is better than worrying and holding back on an automation initiative.

Cloud native testing tools allow you to deploy tests in your clusters, the executions are super scalable and they are not coupled to any CI/CD framework.

Using scripts with a time-series database helps developers streamline application development, scale workloads and build lean integrations.

Static analysis means something different to everyone. What if you looked at code as data, and the benefits this point of view brings to code analysis?