As organizations strive for faster, more reliable software delivery, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines function as the critical arteries of modern development. However, when these essential pathways become slow, unreliable or require excessive manual intervention, they transform from conduits of innovation into significant sources of friction. This inefficiency does not just delay builds; it actively erodes the developer experience (DevEx), hindering productivity, lowering morale, contributing to burnout and ultimately stifling the pace of progress and innovation. “The #1 way you can optimize your CI/CD pipelines is to identify and leverage tools that reduce the amount of work that your developers…
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As a newbie, one of the many things you should master in Linux is identifying the devices attached to your system. It could be your computer’s hard disk, an external hard drive, or removable media such as a USB drive or an SD memory card. Using USB drives for file transfer is super common these days, and for those (new Linux users) who prefer using the command line, learning how to identify a USB device name is really important, especially when you need to format it. Once you attach a device to your system, like a USB, it’s usually auto-mounted…
An analysis published by ReversingLabs, a provider of tools for securing application development environments, suggests that commercial software used in software supply chains is just as vulnerable as open-source code.Scans of more than two dozen widely used commercial-software binaries, including commercial operating systems, password managers, web browsers and virtual private network (VPN) software, found numerous risks, with many of the packages receiving a failing security grade due to the discovery of exposed secrets, actively exploited software vulnerabilities, evidence of possible code tampering and inadequate application hardening.ReversingLabs also scanned 20 distinct versions of VPN clients from six prominent vendors. Seven of…
We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs. After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025. This deprecation does not affect QEMU’s role in emulating non-native architectures for multi-platform builds. By moving to Apple Virtualization Framework or Docker VMM, you will ensure optimal performance. Why We’re Making This Change Our telemetry shows that a very small percentage of users are still using the QEMU option. We’ve maintained QEMU support for…
Hey fellow data friends! Wow, March was an absolutely crazy month (in the best way). It was incredible to see so many folks in Redmond for the MVP Summit, and holy cow FabCon was a whirlwind of amazing people to meet and see from the data community. Thank you so much to everyone who came and saw my session! You folks make presenting worth it, so thank you for all the thoughtful questions and for laughing at my puns and jokes! It was so great to see a few of my fellow P3 peers! Shout out to Garett Medlin, Jason…
The DevOps playbook is rapidly transforming because of recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). DevOps teams now have access to technology capable of improving automation and optimization in practically everything they do — from integration to delivery to infrastructure and more. AI tools also promote the ‘shift-left’ model, prompting cost-saving early bug detection and resolution. With AI having such wide-ranging positive effects, it is little wonder that organizations that quickly embraced it report experiencing improved customer satisfaction and increased service productivity. AI has made a powerful impact on traditionally inefficient DevOps areas, such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, automation of…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added support for Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents it makes available for application developers.Expanded language capabilities are now available in both the integrated development environment (IDE) and command line interface (CLI) for Amazon Q Developer, with support coming to the AWS Management Console soon.Srini Iragavarapu, director of generative AI applications and experiences for AWS, said these extensions to Amazon Q Developer will enable developers around the world to leverage generative AI technologies to not only be more productive but also collaborate more…
Brief: In this guide, we will discuss the best tools for monitoring and debugging disk I/O activity (performance) on Linux servers. A key performance metric to monitor on a Linux server is disk I/O (input/output) activity, which can significantly impact several aspects of a Linux server, particularly the speed of saving to or retrieving from disk, of files or data (especially on database servers). This has a ripple effect on the performance of applications and services. 1. iostat – Shows Device Input and Output Statistics iosat is one of the many terminal-based system monitoring utilities in the sysstat package, which…
In PHP, parentheses () aren’t just punctuation : they play different roles depending on where and how they’re used. Some are compulsory, others are optional, and a few are just useless clutter. And then, there’s the weird one: (cast). Let’s review all PHP parentheses usages down. Compulsory Parentheses The compulsory parentheses are the ones PHP needs to make sense of the code. No one can omit them, and the source won’t even compile without them, so they are compulsory. Function definitions and method calls And vice-versa, obviously. $x * 2; // Parameters require parentheses (unless none) echo $double(‘hello’); //…
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