Author: drweb

In today’s enterprise digital landscape, mainframe modernization is no longer a back-office technical exercise. It has become a strategic initiative tied directly to innovation velocity, operational resilience, regulatory compliance and long-term competitiveness. Organizations are not abandoning the mainframe, but they are rethinking how code, architecture and platforms evolve to meet modern business demands. Techstrong polled […]

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Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be the final version built on the JavaScript codebase, with TypeScript 7.0 slated to introduce a compiler and language service rewritten in Go. For more than a decade, TypeScript […]

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Integrations Feb 5, 2026 Reduce Vulnerability Noise with VEX: Wiz + Docker Hardened Images Open source components power most modern applications. A new generation of hardened container images can establish a more secure foundation, but even with hardened images, vulnerability scanners often return dozens or hundreds of CVEs with little prioritization. This noise slows teams down and complicates security triage. The VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) standard addresses the problem… Bjorn Hovd and Dan Stelzer Read now

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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me, just a few years after Redgate acquired SQL Server Central. I’ll let the words speak for themselves.I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.

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The enterprise technology landscape is on the verge of a major transformation, driven by two key trends: open telecom network APIs and AI-powered coding platforms. This convergence allows businesses to create intelligent, network-aware applications rapidly, empowering them to leverage connectivity in innovative ways. As telcos position their networks as programmable platforms, and AI simplifies software development, organizations can expect a significant acceleration in application creation, leading to new business models and enhanced digital transformation.

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Software teams have always lived with a built-in tension – developers push to ship fast, while security teams pump the brakes to assess risk. Now, with AI flooding the enterprise, that friction is spiking. One recent survey found a staggering 322% jump in privilege-escalation risks tied to AI-generated code. The root problem isn’t new – […]

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Arcjet this week made available a software development kit (SDK) that makes it simpler for JavaScript developers to embed capabilities such as bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection and data redaction directly within their applications. Company CEO David Mytton said the release of v1.0 of its Arcjet JavaScript SDK makes it possible for […]

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In this article, you will learn how to find which process or service is listening on a particular port in Linux using ss, netstat, lsof, and fuser commands. A port is a logical entity that represents an endpoint of communication and is associated with a given process or service in an operating system. In previous articles, we explained how to find out the list of all open ports in Linux and how to check if remote ports are reachable using the Netcat command. 1. Using ss Command The ss (socket statistics) command is the modern replacement for netstat and comes…

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Enterprises developing SaaS products face the challenge of balancing innovation, security, and compliance. By adopting Secure DevOps practices—integrating security into every stage of development—and implementing site reliability engineering (SRE), organizations can enhance agility while ensuring resilience and adherence to regulatory standards. Automating compliance within DevOps pipelines allows teams to maintain high-speed execution without compromising security, creating a robust framework for scalable and secure cloud-native applications.

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