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Here’s a blast from the past. Wikipedia CTO Brion Vibber walks us through the beginnings of Wikipedia. Enjoy! Click here to hear the…
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Here’s one of the most talented CTO’s around to explain the inner workings of Pandora. Click here to…
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Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google, and he's been taking a big part in the open source and Free software ecosystem for a very long time--not least in his role with Google's Summer of Code. He recently posted on Twitter what he calls "a little rant" about software licensing -- well worth reading the whole (short!) thing.
Upshot: Be cautious and humble in…
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) have announced Siren, “a collaborative effort to aggregate and disseminate threat intelligence specific to open source projects”. The initiative comes in the wake of the XZ Utils compromise where it became clear that open source projects needed better ways to disseminate and receive relevant threat intelligence.
By Chris SwanPlatform engineering is not just a technical problem to solve nor an end in itself. In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades from VMware and Stripe to Apollo GraphQL, including where we got stuck, how we unblocked ourselves, and what ultimately led to the right outcomes for our users and the business.
By Smruti PatelIn this podcast, Vitess CNCF project technical lead Deepthi Sigireddi discusses the architecture of cloud native distributed databases, sharding, replication, and failover. She also talks about what DB developers should consider when choosing distributed databases.
By Deepthi SigireddiHashiCorp has released Boundary 0.16, an update enhancing user experience and governance in privileged access management (PAM).
By Matt SaundersThis week's Java roundup for May 13th, 2024 features news highlighting: JEP 477, Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview), proposed to target for JDK 23; the May 2024 edition of Piranha Cloud; Spring Data 2024.0.0; and point and milestone releases of Spring Framework, GlassFish and Micrometer.
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