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January 2015 Blog Posts (6)
Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List
Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …
Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Getting Started With Android
Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;
Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments
Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle
Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments
Speak at OSCON!
Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:
We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments
O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!
The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments
How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client
Our friend Carol just published this article.
SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments
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By Chris Tacey-GreenCloudflare Adds Active API Vulnerability Scanning to Its Edge
Cloudflare has announced the open beta of its Web and API Vulnerability Scanner. This Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tool is part of the API Shield platform.
By Claudio MasoloPodcast: Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein
In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated fault injection tools can introduce basic robustness into a system, they cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating complicated software failures in the real world.
By Lorin HochsteinQCon London 2026: Team Topologies as the ‘Infrastructure for Agency’ with AI
At QCon London 2026, Matthew Skelton argued that AI success depends on organisational maturity. He highlighted bounded agency, security, and stewardship as key to managing AI agents. By using Innovation and Practices Enabling Teams, companies can drive knowledge diffusion and optimise internal processes to see real-world returns on their AI investments.
By Mark SilvesterKubeVirt v1.8 Brings Multi-Hypervisor Support and Confidential Computing to Kubernetes
Version 1.8 of KubeVirt was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The release is aligned with Kubernetes v1.35, and the most significant addition is a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL) that allows the project to use backends other than KVM. In an announcement post on the CNCF blog, the maintainers announced the new release, broken down by their SIGs.
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