Devops
Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS
Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure
03 Aug 18:57 | 24
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About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues, boffins say
Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, though
28 Jul 22:14 | 21
Interview
DevOps still 'rarely done well at scale' concludes report after a decade of research
Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption
28 Jul 15:15 | 30
Devops
GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers
Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco
27 Jul 23:03 | 3
Devops
Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day
Update now – and maybe firewall the thing off while you're at it
22 Jul 19:12 |
Devops
NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Password-stealing package outed by security firm evokes sense of déjà vu
21 Jul 23:59 | 5
Devops
JavaScript, GitHub, AWS crowned winners in massive survey of 32,000 developers
Devs across the world reveal their tools, language choices, and more
16 Jul 13:00 | 20
Systems Approach
What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for
If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here
13 Jul 21:58 | 30
Devops
Security warning deluge from 'npm audit' is driving developers to distraction
Can we have less infosec theater, please?
09 Jul 06:32 | 17
Devops
Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters
Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study
01 Jul 21:35 | 6
Devops
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Maybe call it backseat programming for now?
30 Jun 01:31 | 17
Devops
Digital delinquent deletes developer's database during disastrous Docker deployment, defaults damned
NewsBlur RSS tracker accidentally left MongoDB store facing public internet during migration to containers
29 Jun 22:03 | 7
Devops
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
15 Jun 06:18 | 211
Devops
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
02 Jun 19:35 | 44
Updated
After staff revolt, Freenode management takes over hundreds of IRC channels for 'policy violations'
Gentoo and Raku call foul
26 May 21:16 | 62
Devops
Surprise! Developers' days ruined by interruptions and meetings, GitHub finds
If you want to be happy at work, never meet more than twice a day
25 May 21:54 | 31
Devops
Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says
Cloud hyperscalers drive projects to slap restrictions on code use
13 May 20:32 | 29
Devops
GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope
07 May 18:06 | 9
Devops
Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end
Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says
04 May 17:30 | 2
Column
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason
Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do
04 May 09:15 | 45
Popular
Bootnotes
Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to
Orthodox Christian said mouth-watering banner made her break Lent fast
Legal
Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
Someone must have broken in and taken docs, said Leathermarket Community Benefit Society
Software
Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments
'We have labelled this as an enhancement' says engineer
Who, Me?
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
Going out with a bang
In Brief
Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell
And a very scary story of a job that went from white hat to murky shades of gray in the United Arab Emirates
Virtualization
Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon
Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?
Personal Tech
The sideloader weeps tonight: Unsealed court docs claim Google said 'install friction' would ‘drastically limit' Epic's reach
Plus: Google 'contemplated buying some or all of Epic'
Software
New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it
Update better aligned with GTK widgets but UI is controversial
Science
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Is that the sound of hammering we can hear?
Software
GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink
When it comes to ownership then details count
STORIES
Devops
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff
Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp
30 Apr 23:29 | 22
Video
Facebook, it's cool to see you using Rust and joining the foundation, but please don't Zuck it up for all of us
Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it
30 Apr 06:23 | 19
Devops
JetBrains shoves TeamCity into the cloud, pitches Kotlin for build pipelines because YAML is 'really a pain'
No free plan: That's one way to avoid crypto-mining abuse of build minutes
29 Apr 15:50 | 6
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
21 Apr 06:23 | 21
Devops
Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'
'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x
13 Apr 11:48 | 68
Devops
'Our hosted pools are under attack by abusers': Azure DevOps enjoys a midweek TITSUP*
Crypto-mining jerks at least partly to blame
07 Apr 16:33 | 8
Devops
Microsoft welcomes 'raddest' and most 'feature-dense' Kubernetes release to AKS, shows 1.17 the door
Mere months to go before 1.21 arrives
01 Apr 15:18 | 12
Devops
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize
01 Apr 01:03 | 26
Devops
Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama
If the license doesn't fit, you must commit
29 Mar 19:50 | 5
Devops
OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers
For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure
26 Mar 14:01 |
Devops
'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries
Watchdog bites Uncle Sam and Lockheed Martin over $14bn-and-counting efforts
25 Mar 17:17 | 90
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Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million projects
Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package
25 Mar 08:24 | 55
Devops
Trail of Bits security peeps emit tool to weaponize Python's insecure pickle files to hopefully now get everyone's attention
Alternatively: Python's pickle pilloried with prudent premonition of poisoning
19 Mar 08:50 | 24
Devops
SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China
Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...
18 Mar 15:08 | 7
Devops
GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'
Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
11 Mar 14:02 | 120
Devops
This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders
Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago
10 Mar 23:58 | 50
