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How to write simple networks of competing microservices using NodeJS and RabbitMQ

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the world’s second-leading cloud infrastructure service treat GitHub…

"New laws aren’t meant to be exciting — but this one could sedate a buffalo."

Learn the basics of Elasticsearch, its setup, and implementation in Python.

Infosec bods warn of poorly secured tools auto-scaling, landing a jackpot for crooks

Today you'll learn how to deploy a Node.js application to AWS Lambda with the help of the Serverless Framework.

By Nikhil Jindal & Greg Harmon, Software Engineers, Google Cloud Platform; Matthew DeLio, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform Increasin...

Despite being available on the market for a while, serverless platforms started to gain a lot of momentum just recently. A lot of people see big potential in the idea itself, and a lot of people also think that serverless is a threat to the containerization.…

Serverless computing allows you to build and run applications and services without provisioning, scaling, or managing any servers. FaaS (Functions as a Service) is the runtime that enables serverless computing by firing off bits of code (functions) as they…

SAP is steadfast that blockchain will be a big deal in the enterprise, business processes and IT.

As reported in an ISOC report last year, IPv6 adoption is now solidly in the "early majority phase" of the technology adoption life cycle by many metrics (well past "innovators" and "early adopters"), with progress beyond that in some areas....

IPv6 deployment continues to increase around the world. In the six years since World IPv6 Launch[*] levels of IPv6 deployment in networks and service providers all over the globe have increased dramatically.

The Best CI/CD Tool for Kubernetes Doesn’t Exist There is no single, best set of tools for continuous integration/continuous development

Microsoft paid a lot for GitHub, because it had to pay directly for access to developers. It doesn’t have the leverage of users the way that Apple does on the App Store.

The European Commission's “embarrassing” data breach comes after companies rushed to meet the May 25 deadline which saw the EU’s new GDPR law come into force.

As I recently wrote on Twitter, I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time lately thinking about the human scalability of “DevOps.”…

With the traditional Waterfall Development Model, the requirements for software are clear and well-defined in advance. The definition of the product itself is also stable.

There has been a mad scramble to get data practices in order before and since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25. The intent behind GDPR seems like a reasonable set of regulations to protect the user. However, many, if not most…