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What VMware's AI Vision Means for Your Job
What VMware's AI Vision Means for Your Job
Following last week’s VMWare Explore 2023, the company communicated clear possibilities for developers, IT teams and organizations to leverage and depend on generative AI while developing applications, especially for multicloud environments.
·thenewstack.io·
What VMware's AI Vision Means for Your Job
Lessons IT Can Steal from Hackers
Lessons IT Can Steal from Hackers
Attackers have advantages that make them resilient, argues author and senior principal engineer Kelly Shortridge. Here's how IT can respond.
·thenewstack.io·
Lessons IT Can Steal from Hackers
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
The consulting firm came up with a methodology they claim can measure software developer productivity. But that measurement comes at a high price – and we offer a more sensible approach.
·newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com·
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
HashiCorp's Terraform License Change: Community Reactions
HashiCorp's Terraform License Change: Community Reactions
Terraform's licensing shift sparks community debate. Explore the OpenTF response, the broader tech implications, and what it means for open-source.
·thatamazingprogrammer.com·
HashiCorp's Terraform License Change: Community Reactions
Own your content - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
Own your content - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
For the past years, we've witnessed a rise of new type of social media platforms. Platforms that compete for the ownership of your content. And the attention of your consumers.
·yieldcode.blog·
Own your content - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
The Price of Being Original
The Price of Being Original
The Price of Being Original Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT
·kevwe.com·
The Price of Being Original
Spider-shaped DevRel
Spider-shaped DevRel
I’ve found that most companies expect us to be spider-shaped. Slightly less wide than a lot of professions, and slightly deeper than most others
·michaelheap.com·
Spider-shaped DevRel
Confidently Automating AWS Infrastructure Changes
Confidently Automating AWS Infrastructure Changes
IaC tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation allow us to make out environments more consistent but does not necessarily make changes to prod less error prone.
·overmind.tech·
Confidently Automating AWS Infrastructure Changes
Production postmortem: The heisenbug server
Production postmortem: The heisenbug server
A user reported that they observed nodes in the cluster “going dark”. Basically, they would stop communicating with the rest of the cluster, but ...
·ayende.com·
Production postmortem: The heisenbug server
A Developer's Guide to Working with Icons
A Developer's Guide to Working with Icons
As a developer, you may need to select icons, even if a designer will build the final asset. This post introduces devs to the world of icons.
·thenewstack.io·
A Developer's Guide to Working with Icons
IDPs: A Piece of the Developer Experience Puzzle
IDPs: A Piece of the Developer Experience Puzzle
There is no one-size-fits-all internal developer platformIDPs and organizations have a lot of flexibility in designing the right one.
·thenewstack.io·
IDPs: A Piece of the Developer Experience Puzzle
Hyperautomation in Testing: The future
Hyperautomation in Testing: The future
Hyperautomation offers a revolutionary method for automating corporate processes, combining a number of technologies to boost productivity, precision, and agility.
·testorigen.com·
Hyperautomation in Testing: The future
The trap of Unix
The trap of Unix
Ever since the initial implementations of Unix at Bell Labs in the early 1970s, we are stuck with some basic design decisions that have pers...
·bbu87.blogspot.com·
The trap of Unix
CS SYD - Ad-hoc polymorphism erodes type-safety
CS SYD - Ad-hoc polymorphism erodes type-safety
This blogpost explains and argues the claim that Ad-hoc polymorphism (Type-classes in Haskell/Scala/Purescript, Traits in Rust, Interfaces in Go/Java) makes code less type-safe.In other words: ad-hoc polymorphism makes it so that sometimes, after a refactor, code that is wrong and would not type-check without it, now still type-checks.
·cs-syd.eu·
CS SYD - Ad-hoc polymorphism erodes type-safety
The Infinite Conversation
The Infinite Conversation
An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek.
·infiniteconversation.com·
The Infinite Conversation
Projects We Love: Subconscious – Fission
Projects We Love: Subconscious – Fission
You should own your thoughts. Subconscious is a tool for thought build on the open source Noosphere protocol that empowers users to do just that by avoiding centralization and enjoying the networked intelligence effects of a worldwide knowledge graph.
·fission.codes·
Projects We Love: Subconscious – Fission