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Cybersecurity researcher “Elliot Alderson” talks Trump and Facebook, Google and Huawei, and teaching kids online privacy [Podcast]

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For anyone that's watched Mr. Robot, the name Elliot Alderson will sound familiar. However, we're not talking about Rami Malek's hacker alter ego - instead, the name has been adopted as an alias by a real-life white-hat hacker who has been digging into the...

Why you should start learning Spring Boot: An interview with Greg Turnquist

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If you're not sure what Spring Boot is exactly, or why it's becoming such an important part of the Java development ecosystem you're in the right place. We'll explain: Spring Boot is a micro framework built by the team at Pivotal that has been...

Listen: Herman Fung explains what its like to manage programmers and software engineers [Podcast]

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Management is a discipline that isn't short of coverage. In fact, it's probably fair to say that the world throws too much attention its way. This only serves to muddy the waters of management principles and make it hard to determine what really matters....

Red Badger Tech Director Viktor Charypar talks monorepos, lifelong learning, and the challenges facing open source software [Interview]

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Back in February, Viktor Charypar, Tech Director at Red badger explained the benefits of using a monorepo. For many teams, especially those without the resources or a highly developed and well-supported engineering culture, the idea of a monorepo might sound a little strange -...

Selenium and data-driven testing: An interview with Carl Cocchiaro

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Data-driven testing has become a lot easier thanks to tools like Selenium. That's good news for everyone in software development. It means you can build better software that works for users much more quickly. While the tension between performance and the need to deliver...

Why ASP.NET makes building apps for mobile and web easy – Interview with Jason de Oliveira

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Jason De Oliveira works as a CTO for MEGA International, a software company in Paris (France), providing modeling tools for business transformation, enterprise architecture, and enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management. He is an experienced manager and senior solutions architect, with high skills in...

Francesco Marchioni on Quarkus 1.0 and how Red Hat increases the efficiency of Cloud-Native applications [Interview]

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Cloud-native applications are an assembly of independent services used to build new applications, optimize existing ones, and connect them in such a way that the applications can skillfully deliver the desired result. More specifically, they are employed to build scalable and fault-tolerant applications in...

DevSecOps and the shift left in security: how Semmle is supporting software developers [Podcast]

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Software security has been 'shifting left' in recent years. Thanks to movements like Agile and Dev(Sec)Ops, software developers are finding that they have to take more responsibility for the security of their code. By moving performance and security testing earlier in the development lifecycle...

Translating between the virtual and the real: Interview with artist Scott Kildall

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Scott Kildall is an artist whose work often explores themes of future-thinking and translation between the virtual and the real. His latest projects use physical data visualization - the transformation of data sources into physical objects via computer algorithms. We're currently collaborating on the...

Why Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration are here to stay: Interview with Nikhil Pathania, DevOps practitioner

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In the past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth. There is a huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast, yet flexible to numerous amendments. As a result, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies are gaining popularity. They...

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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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