Docker containers are an amazing invention that simplified the lives of many IT departments. Container images are lightweight, easily standardizable, and highly secure. Docker is the technology of choice when you need to run several different (and possibly newer) applications on the same servers.
Using NPS as an engineering metric gets product owners into hot water. A good NPS score is seen in software communities as the benchmark for a product-first company and regularly features on executive and IPO reports. It's so common that over two-thirds of the Fortune 1000 claim to use it. But imagine if every software tool you used sent you regular NPS surveys? Response rates will suffer and the metric will slowly become less and less valuable over time.
With 900 billion devices running on Windows 10, the future is bright for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). UWP’s strength lies in its ability to adapt itself completely to the native user interface - whether that’s a computer, tablet, Xbox or IoT device. It’s a win-win; users get a consistent experience as they consume across devices, while developers get easier deployments.
October brings Halloween and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, however, it has also been one of the scariest months for Magecart attack discoveries! Here’s the latest news on Magecart and other website attacks, with insights from our own Security Researcher!
Prometheus’s TSDB (TimeSeries DataBase) stores the recent data in the memory and the old data on persistent storage in the form of blocks. Each block has its own index to map the series to the actual chunks that contain the data samples. During Google Summer of Code 2019, I mentored Alec Wang throughout this work on lifting the size limitations of the index mentioned above. The work described below is up for review and should be merged soon.
In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit and explore how it can boost the productivity of your development and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure-as-Code is fast emerging as a de-facto standard for development organizations.