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Minko Gechev: “Developers should learn all major front end frameworks to go to the next level”

The battle of the front end frameworks in 2018
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This year's Skill Up survey produced some interesting results when it came to the best front end frameworks. Angular remains the most established tool with 40% of web developers reporting that they used it regularly. React is actually a little further behind, with 25%...

How Gremlin is making chaos engineering accessible [Interview]

Interview with Gremlin CTO about chaos engineering
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Despite considerable hype, chaos engineering doesn’t appear to have yet completely captured the imagination of the wider software engineering world. According to this year’s Skill Up survey, when asked, only 13% of developers said they were excited about it. But that doesn’t mean we...

“Everybody can benefit from adopting Odoo, whether you’re a small start-up or a giant tech company” – An interview with Odoo community hero, Yenthe Van Ginneken

Data exploration with RethinkDB
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Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. It comes with: Powerful GUI, Performance optimization, Integrated in-app purchase features Fast-growing community to transform and modernize businesses We recently interviewed Yenthe Van Ginneken, an Odoo developer, highly active in...

“Be objective, fight for the user, and test with real users on the go!” – Interview with design purist, Will Grant

UX design
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Too often, as designers and developers we fail to make interfaces that are usable, fail to make software that is intuitive, and fail to make products that normal people can understand. By coating design rigour with a layer of brand fluff, and putting form...

Site reliability engineering: Nat Welch on what it is and why we need it [Interview]

Site reliability engineering explained
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At a time when software systems are growing in complexity, and when the expectations and demands from users have never been more critical, it's easy to forget that just making things work can be a huge challenge. That's where site reliability engineering (SRE) comes...

Kali Linux 2018 for testing and maintaining Windows security – Wolf Halton and Bo Weaver [Interview]

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Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OSes, and managing its security has spawned the discipline of Windows security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares...

Security experts, Wolf Halton and Bo Weaver, discuss pentesting and cybersecurity [Interview]

Packt and Humble Bundle come together for cybersecurity bundle
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This is Part 2 of the interview with our two Kali Linux experts, Wolf Halton, and Bo Weaver, on using Kali Linux for pentesting. In their section, we talk about the role of pentesting in cybersecurity. Previously, the authors talked about why Kali Linux is...

Wolf Halton on what’s changed in tech and where we are headed

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The tech industry is changing at a massive rate especially after the storage options moved to the cloud. However, this has also given rise to questions on security, data management, change in the work structure within an organization, and much more. Wolf Halton, an...

Bo Weaver on Cloud security, skills gap, and software development in 2019

Quantum Computing
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Bo Weaver, a Kali Linux expert shares his thoughts on the security landscape in the cloud. He also talks about the skills gap in the current industry and why hiring is a tedious process. He explains the pitfalls in software development and where the...

Honeycomb CEO Charity Majors discusses observability and dealing with “the coming armageddon of complexity” [Interview]

Charity Majors interview
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Transparency is underrated in the tech industry. But as software systems grow in complexity and their relationship with the real world becomes increasingly fraught, it nevertheless remains a value worth fighting for. But to effectively fight for it, it’s essential to remember that transparency is...

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Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design

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When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...

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