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The New Stack | February 3, 2017
GitLab Data Loss Incident Prompts a Review of its Restore Processes
A short outage this week on the GitLab hosted code service struck a combination of fear and sympathy across the tech community and offered a sharp reminder of the importance of testing your backups again and again (and again).
On Tuesday, a GitLab administrator had accidentally erased a directory...
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Paul Brown | February 3, 2017 steven-faulkner-nodejs.png
Although Serverless has become a bit of a buzzword recently, Steven Faulkner, Director of Platform Engineering at Bustle, disagrees that it is just a fad.
Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless JavaScript
Although Serverless has become a bit of a buzzword recently, Steven Faulkner, Director of Platform Engineering at Bustle, disagrees that it is just a fad. In his talk at Node.js Interactive, he points out that much of the faults that people find in Serverless -- that it doesn't scale, that it is...
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InfoWorld | February 3, 2017
10 IT Skills that Employers Need in 2017
Unemployment rates in the IT industry are still hovering at historic lows, and some roles -- like network and security engineers and software developers -- are showing unemployment rates of around 1 percent. A recent survey from Robert Half Technology showed that the majority of CIOs will either...
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Network World | February 3, 2017
New Open Source Project Trireme Aims to Secure Containers
A team made of former Cisco and Nuage Networks veterans has developed an open source project it released this week named Trireme that takes an application-centric approach to securing code written in containers.
Trireme is deigned to work with Docker containers and integrates with Kubernetes, the...
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CNET | February 3, 2017
How to Choose a Linux Distro for Your Old PC
Ready to give your old computer a new lease on life? Even if it's several years old and slow as molasses, you don't have to consign it the junk heap. Instead, install a new operating system and put it back into the rotation. Forget Windows, though: Linux is an open-source (and free) OS that's just...
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SDx Central | February 3, 2017
NFV Interoperability Testing Needs to Accelerate
Many service providers have deployed network function virtualization (NFV) software but few have the tools in place to orchestrate and manage NFV software from multiple vendors. To foster interoperability, a series of initiatives and services have been launched to help organizations determine what ...
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NYMag | February 3, 2017
Click Here to Kill Everyone: Security and the Internet of Things
All computers are hackable. This has as much to do with the computer market as it does with the technologies. We prefer our software full of features and inexpensive, at the expense of security and reliability. That your computer can affect the security of Twitter is a market failure. The industry...
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Eric Brown | February 2, 2017 pawel-wieczorek-elc.png
Paweł Wieczorek describes how he and his colleagues at the Samsung R&D Institute Poland developed an Automated Testing Laboratory to streamline testing of Tizen Common on community-backed SBCs at ELC.
Automating Software Testing on Linux SBCs
Demand is increasing for embedded software projects to support a variety of Linux hacker boards -- and that requires time consuming hardware testing to prove that your software works reliably. Fortunately, you can integrate test automation tools into your software development process to streamline...
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Tech Radar | February 2, 2017
How to Use One Time Pad Cryptography with a Raspberry Pi
What if, however, there were a way to be certain that your personal emails, pictures of your pet kitten, backups of your tax returns for the past decade and so on were safe even if intercepted? Enter the One Time Pad.
The Notorious OTP
In simplest terms, a One Time Pad is a series of random numbers...
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Julia Evans | February 2, 2017
Dissecting an SSL Certificate
I think it’s interesting to know what it means to “issue a SSL certificate” and I can talk about that a little.
TLS: newer version of SSL
I was confused about what this “TLS” thing was for a long time. Basically newer versions of SSL are called TLS (the version after SSL 3.0 is TLS 1.0). I’m going...
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