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Today we're announcing the most-significant evolution of our platform — something we've been building towards for a long time that we're thrilled to share…

tl;dr Visual Studio Code usage is rising rapidly! VS Code is now the editor chosen by the majority of engineers during programming interviews, and it appears to be rapidly taking market share from other top editors. Triplebyte interviews hundreds of engineers each week. For every interview, we record the editor, language and operating system each candidate uses. We don't use this data to decide who passes our interview (I don't think that would be fair). However, it is fascinating data! It gives us insight into which tools different cohorts of engineers prefer, and how these preferences hav...

Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team.

From Pub-Sub messaging to Foreign Data Wrappers - five extraordinary features that made Postgres our backend of choice for Arcentry

Valve has traditionally taken a 30-percent cut for revenues on Steam, but now it's facing stiff competition from one of the biggest developers in the world.

Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from August to November: A thread on bad codebases ranging from war stories to horror stories, developing Crash Bandicoot for PS1, meeting Ricky Jay, Victorian culinary trading cards, and a TV meteorologist experiences tech envy.

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Vault 1.0. Vault is a tool to manage secrets and protect sensitive data for any infrastructure and application...

Two years ago Verve invested in GraphQL. None of us had ever worked with it before, but it turned out to be a great decision. Here's why!

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image. Contribute to wagoodman/dive development by creating an account on GitHub.

Amazon’s renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves. Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an unknown number of customer email addresses after a “technical error” on its website. When reached for comment, an Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch that the issue exposed […]

The HBO series gets it right. And it doesn’t make any more fun of us tech people than we deserve.

Here’s a guide on how to prevent and protect yourself against the threat of hackers taking over your phone number and going after your online accounts.

GraphQL, the Facebook -incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be hosted by the Linux Foundation. Facebook announced GraphQL back in 2012 and open sourced it in 2015. Today, it’s being used by companies that range from Airbnb […]

TabNine is the all-language autocompleter. It uses machine learning to provide responsive, reliable, and relevant suggestions.

During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who were two of the three people who co-created Kubernetes back at Google […]

Learn how too run integration tests on PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB 20 times faster using Docker containers and mapping the data directory on tmpfs. Thisi works

The first three talks from React Conf 2018 by Sophie Alpert, Dan Abramov, and Ryan Florence. Learn more about Hooks at https://reactjs.org/hooks.

Editor’s note: A few moments ago, Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst shared this email with Red Hat associates. A few minutes ago, we announced that Red Hat has signed an agreement to combine forces with IBM in the largest software company acquisition to date. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM.

And because of "experience inflation" by employers, the experience you need for entry-level jobs is increasing at 2.8% every year.

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Paul Miller — entrepreneur. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things.

The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own.

On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend...

We're excited to share a list of Y Combinator's top 100 companies. The top 100 YC Companies are listed by valuation (including the top 12 exits), as of October 17, 2018. We put this list together to help people get to know some of the fastest growing alumni in the YC community. Most people know t

For the longest time, GitHub was all about storing source code and sharing it either with the rest of the world or your colleagues. Today, the company, which is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft, is taking a step in a different but related direction by launching GitHub Actions. Actions allow developers to […]