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Mar 2, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Robert Kimani |Ram Iyengar |Jack Wallen |Rynn Mancuso
XSS Vulnerability Discovered in Backstage Software Catalog sponsor-port,sponsored-topic, Open Source / Platform Engineering / Security The vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious code into the application. Here's patching information and best practices to prevent similar issues. Backstage, the open source internal developer portal created by Spotify, has been adopted by American Airlines, Fidelity Investments, Netflix, VMware and other enterprises.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Sean Scott |Ram Iyengar |Rynn Mancuso
SmartOS isn’t nearly as well known as some of the other UNIX or Linux-like operating systems built for virtual machines and containers. Based on illumos (a community fork of OpenSolaris), you’ll find plenty of features in SmartOS to make virtualization and containerization not only possible but robust and reliable. SmartOS was designed, from the ground up, to be ideal for cloud native and virtual use cases. It can be used as:A VM hypervisor. Lightweight container host. Multi-tenant deployments.
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Feb 25, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Sean Scott |Ram Iyengar |Rynn Mancuso
For example, one thing you can do with relative ease is to deploy a container with a persistent volume. Why would you need to do that? Consider this: You build a website, using the NGINX container image. You’ve carefully constructed the container and built the website. If you do everything within the container, should something happen to the container, you could lose all of that precious work. Instead, it’s always best to use persistent storage.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Filip Verloy |Filip engages |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe
Since the recent release of ChatGPT’s free research preview, people have been using artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI) in new and unique ways, which has also prompted more questions than answers on AI-related cybersecurity risks. But, perhaps in the act of rebellion against AI, we’re demonstrating what defines us as humans: creativity and emotional intelligence.
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Feb 23, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Rain Leander |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe
Life has always been tough for coders. During the 2600 console days, one Atari executive called its developers dime-a-dozen “towel designers,” prompting them to leave and form Activision. More than half a century later, the industry still hasn’t learned its lesson; recent stories in the press show how video game companies and recently-acquired social media firms alike continue to grind more work out of underappreciated coders.
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Feb 20, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Alexander Williams |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe
From building complex machine learning applications, to creating intuitive graphical user interfaces, Python is a popular programming language that has become the preferred choice for software developers and data scientists alike. Python’s data science capabilities continue to be explored, especially for advanced data analysis and the creation of deep learning products. Python outperforms rival programming languages, such as C++, in this regard.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe |Bruce Gain
Cheryl Hung boasts quite a resume, with time spent at Google, Apple, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). She’s now the senior director of ecosystem at Arm, but at Civo Navigate last week, she focused her keynote talk on what she learned while working for the CNCF. Despite her time working with Kubernetes and containers in general, she didn’t have a lot to say about the technology. Instead, the first thing she learned at CNCF was from former Executive Director Dan Kohn.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe |Bruce Gain
In a documentary two years ago about the JavaScript framework Vue.js, it was described as a kind of indie alternative in the JavaScript ecosystem, compared to the two leading frameworks — Facebook’s React and Google’s Angular. “It just feels less corporate […] more grassroots,” is how one of the talking heads described it. In comparison to the trendiest JavaScript framework, React, the most noticeable difference is that Vue is supported by web standards advocates.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Robert Kimani |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe |Bruce Gain
API consistency refers to the degree to which an API behaves predictably and reliably across different environments and scenarios. When an API is consistent, developers can trust it to behave the same way in different contexts, making it simpler to use and integrate into their applications. Scaling an API involves increasing its capacity to handle a larger volume of requests or a higher load; as you do this, you need to keep API consistency in mind.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Laurentius Purba |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe |Bruce Gain
Harness the Shared Responsibility Model to Boost Security sponsor-orca,sponsored-post-contributed, To protect your applications and important information, all relevant members of your organization must know who is responsible for what. When organizations decide to move their applications’ workloads to public cloud providers, they need to understand that there are responsibilities shared with the providers. In other words, this move is not a “set it and forget it” kind of situation.
