Team Contributor is a better label than Individual Contributor for members of your team

Sometimes, it’s more important to be able to produce a quick estimate than it is to produce a good one. In those cases, reach for the SWAG: the Simple Wild-Ass Guess. To a large degree making a (good) SWAG is an intuitive process, but I’ve tried to unpack what’s happening in that short moment and give some thoughts about when a SWAG is appropriate, and how to give one.

Fighting wildfires is becoming a ceaselessly more difficult job.

Matthew Garrett has written up the long, complex series of steps required to build an x86 device that only boots code that the creator wants to run there. "At this point everything in the boot process is cryptographically verified, and so should be difficult to tamper with. Unfortunately this isn't really sufficient - on x86 systems there's typically no verification of the integrity of the secure boot database. An attacker with physical access to the system could attach a programmer directly to the firmware flash and rewrite the secure boot database to include keys they control. They could then replace the boot image with one that they've signed, and the machine would happily boot code that the attacker controlled. We need to be able to demonstrate that the system booted using the correct secure boot keys, and the only way we can do that is to use the TPM."

NixOS 21.05 distribution is now available for download with the GNOME 40 desktop environment and the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series.

When last we looked in on Fedora CoreOS back in December, it was under consideration to become an official Fedora edition. That has not happened, yet at least, but it would seem that the CoreOS "emerging edition" is still undergoing some difficulties trying to fit in with the rest of Fedora. There are differences between the needs of a container operating system and those of more general-purpose distributions, which still need to be worked out if Fedora CoreOS is going to "graduate".

ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple's gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects

The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth.

ViacomCBS, a self-described “fundamental content company”, reaches about 700 million consumers in more than 180 countries around the world with its media content. About 24% of the company’s total revenue stems from content licensing outside the North American market. Through...

Kasper Lund discusses a new way of building applications for the internet of things using a virtual machine and Toit. Microcontrollers usually run so-called real-time operating systems (RTOS). The …

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This article explains the key differences between REST and gRPC. It considers their pros and cons and further analyzes when to use gRPC or REST.

With organizations continually focusing on digital transformation initiatives and new technologies, integration is becoming a vital part of enterprise architecture. Our authors discuss the business, information, application and technology domains as well as the four evolutionary stages of a sample enterprise architecture. ?

The OWASP API Top 10 documents the risks associated with API development and can help better tailor your defense-in-depth strategy.

The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers,

Speed is the primary goal of modern application developers. However, with speed comes complexity. Organizations have no choice but to tackle security challenges. In fact, the time difference today between when code is written and when it runs is shortening. Nearly 60% of companies report deploying multiple times a day, once a day or once…

A collaboration between Takram and Hitachi Design wraps up in this final exploration of cultural shifts as a result of COVID-19

New software emerges almost daily to simplify and streamline our work. So why is buying and selling enterprise software still such a laborious and painful process? It’s ironic, I know. But fortunately, we’re living in the era of the cloud. Cloud spending continues to soar at an astonishing pace. For 2021 alone, Gartner has forecasted…

While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation

"Easy to use" and "cloud native computing" isn't quite an oxymoron, but it's close. Of course, there is Heroku, which is a container-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud, and a host of start-ups. And, now  (AWS), has thrown its hat into this ring with AWS App Runner. This is a fully managed container application…

You may laugh at the image above, but for many of us, similar absurdities can be found in our own policy frameworks. Governance matters, because badly written, confusing policies and standards will…

Integration software provider is serious about cloud native programming, so much so that the company created Ballerina, a programming language built specifically for cloud native computing. Today WSO2 introduced a beta of the latest release of Ballerina, the Swan Lake release. Ballerina is an open source language for cloud native programming and integration with bidirectional…

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To get the architecture of the business right, a company must reorganise itself around empowered teams that can operate at speed. For architecture truly to be a pivotal piece of the business transf…