David Patterson and Ion Stoica The publication of “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” on February 10, 2009 cleared up the considerable confusion about the new notion of “Cloud Computing.” The paper defined what Cloud Computing was, where…

Describes where Python packaging is today, and where the Python Packaging Authority hopes will move next. In this post learn about package types.

UPDATE: February 14, 2019: Since writing this article in late 2017, Microsoft seems to have made a change that makes it a bit harder to reverse engineer someone’s address book, but most of the problem remains. You can read my update on how Skype still exposes…

Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI

I realize that publications need to have a business model to stay afloat. And the past month has seen a number of online publications (and offline publications) layoff a large number of employees. So it isn’t even clear that all of these hard paywalls, soft…

The atmosphere at Trump rallies leads many of his supporters to think the media is fair game, says the BBC's Jon Sopel.

The field has narrowed in the race to protect sensitive electronic information from the threat of quantum computers, which one day could render many of our c

When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double…

Red Team's SIEM - tool for Red Teams used for tracking and alarming about Blue Team activities as well as better usability in long term operations. - outflanknl/RedELK

A proposed standard that allows websites to define security policies.

Hash tables are the most popular probabilistic data structure, by quite a margin. You compute some hash code then compute an array index from that hash code. If you’re using open addressing-c…

The genetic-engineering tool could help combat malaria and invasive species. But should we use it?

Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.