There is some confusion about the definitions of Red, Blue, and Purple teams within Information Security. Here are my definitions and concepts associated with t

by Maulik Pandey

Like any professionals, programmers strive to be the best that they possibly can in their field. Whether by studying algorithms, learning…

RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka might appear similar but serve very different needs. Read to learn and make an informed decision suitable for your needs.

Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not…

As a developer, when I was offered a management job for the first time, my biggest fear was that it would make me a bad programmer because my programming skills and my market competitiveness as a programmer will decline. While talking to young team leaders…

These days everyone is building a 'platform' to speed up delivery of digital products. But what makes an effective digital platform?

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Everyone knows Spring and Hibernate, but there are other libraries and frameworks that are worth your attention. I pulled a list of 42 Java libraries that I like and use daily. Some of them are well-known; others are not so…

We do a lot of reflecting on what has worked and what could have gone better in digital teams. We have dedicated, regular sessions called…

Understanding how the focal point of Bitcoin development operates.

Sometimes we technologists can be a bit too clever for our own good. The term technical debt, attributed to Ward Cunningham in a 1992 OOPSLA conference speech¹, may be an example. We use the term often these days, generally in the context of justifying investments…

Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv

Like the subject says I just wanted to thank you for this brilliant solution to this annoying problem! I am starting to use Linode's managed Kubernetes and they don't have yet an annotation...

BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...

I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after failing to raise more money, I ended up back where I began: a one-person company.

I created this playlist for myself, but I want to share with you if your musical taste is like mine.

Why does it take so long to build software? We hear variations of this question frequently: Why is building software so expensive? Why is my team delivering software so slowly? Why am I perpetually behind schedule with my software? There is a good reason…

“Learn how to finish” is among the best pieces of advice anyone can give you, right next to, “Done is better than perfect.” A realized prototype full of flaws is ten times better than a flawless concept endlessly debated.