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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

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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 […]

Google just one-upped Apple in a significant way by addressing a problem that’s plaguing U.S. cellphone owners: spam calls. The company’s new Pixel 3 flagship Android smartphone is first to introduce a new call screening feature that leverages the built-in Google Assistant. The screening service transcribes the caller’s request in real-time, allowing you to decide […]

In this post we will describe the Edge network part of Dropbox traffic infrastructure. This is an extended transcript of our NginxConf 2018 presentation.

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Many seasoned engineers working in JVM based languages have seen errors like this: [error] (run-main-0) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:813) ... [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) OutOfMemory…err…out of threads. On my laptop running Linux, this happens after a paltry 11500 threads. If you try the same thing in Go by starting Goroutines that sleep indefinitel...

CLIs are a fantastic way to build products. Unlike web applications, they take a small fraction of the time to build and are much more…

New integration enables software teams to connect their code on GitHub.com to their projects on Jira Software Cloud

Joining a startup can be a great financial opportunity; but picking the right ones is hard. More than anything, you need to avoid zombies.

Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...

Hiring is broken on so many different levels, and it starts right there, at the job offer description. It then continues all the way down to the actual interview process. I'd like to unfold here some prescriptions about how I think startups should hire.