I recently asked a fellow AWS Hero why anyone would use EC2 instances when there were so many alternatives such as Lambda and containers. He told me that he usually assumes going the EC2 route is cheaper. I’ve been increasingly suspicious that far too many…

A Guide to Effective Dashboard Design

Contribute to microsoft/typespec development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sometimes you have to invest in design and architecture in advance to not hit a wall later or incur a lot of technical debt.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a proposal for a European law that aims to drive the safety and integrity of software of all kinds by extending the “CE” self-attestation mark to software. And it may harm Open Source.

I started my certification journey quite late in my career. I followed the top certified folks on LinkedIn for a while to see if I could learn from their stengths as also mistakes. Some of the questions which I am looking to answer :

For a data format, yaml is extremely complicated. It aims to be a human-friendly format, but in striving for that it introduces so much complexity, that I would argue it achieves the opposite result. Yaml is full of footguns and its friendliness is deceptive.…

Do you know which format for generating a software bill of materials (SBOM) is the best option for your organization? A look at the two leading standards.

Every sufficiently advanced configuration language is the wrong tool for the job.

For basic configuration, YAML or JSON is usually good enough. It falls apart

How reliable was GitHub in 2022? Which features are less reliable? We have analyzed GitHub outages and found which features are the most unreliable.

The following think piece, written by Snyk’s Open Source and Open Standards Strategy Director, Daniel Appelquist, examines the origin of the term “supply chain security” and whether it’s a good fit for today’s open source software development process.

In fall 2022, Trail of Bits audited cURL, a widely-used command-line utility that transfers data between a server and supports various protocols. The project coincided with a Trail of Bits maker week, which meant that we had more manpower than we usually…

The real investment is how fast you get there

Cross-platform client for PostgreSQL databases. Contribute to sosedoff/pgweb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Easy NodeJS containers. Contribute to thesayyn/no development by creating an account on GitHub.