Programming
What Was Your First Programming Language?
These 24 open source technologists share their programming origin stories. We asked our contributors What was your first programming language? but the question goes much deeper than that. There are stories to tell about who suggested it or what prompted you to learn it. If you were paid to do so, and what happened next. Then there’s a lot …
Prometheus HA With Thanos Sidecar Or Receiver?
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Tayyab Jamadar Prometheus has been the flag bearer for monitoring the systems for a long time now. It has proved itself as a go-to solution for monitoring and alerting in Kubernetes systems. Though Prometheus does have some general instructions to achieve high availability within itself, it comes with its …
Beautiful Is Better Than Ugly’: Using Python To Automate Your SEO Strategy
Python is already one of the essential languages in the programming world. However, lately, we have seen that technology is invading other areas as well. One of the main applications is artificial intelligence which means that companies are already learning to adopt the language to make better decisions and achieve results aligned with business goals. …
How Different Programming Languages Read And Write Data
Every programming language has a unique way of accomplishing a task; that’s why there are so many languages to choose from. In his article How different programming languages do the same thing, Jim Hall demonstrates how 13 different languages accomplish the same exact task with different syntax. The lesson is that programming languages tend to have …
How To Avoid Waste When Writing Code
“The more we can reduce waste in software development, the better off everyone will be.” The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process …
What’s The Key To A More Secure Cloud Function? It’s A Secret!
Google Cloud Functions provides a simple and intuitive developer experience to execute code from Google Cloud, Firebase, Google Assistant, or any web, mobile, or backend application. Oftentimes that code needs secrets—like API keys, passwords, or certificates—to authenticate to or invoke upstream APIs and services. While Google Secret Manager is a fully-managed, secure, and convenient storage system for such …
Tidying Up The Go Web Experience
In 2019, which seems like a decade ago, we launched go.dev, a new hub for Go developers, along with the companion site pkg.go.dev, providing information about Go packages and modules. The go.dev web site contains useful information for people evaluating Go, but golang.org continued to serve distribution downloads, documentation, and a package reference for the standard library. …
Dealing With Burnout In Open Source
What it is, why you should care, and how you can help prevent burnout. Burnout is something you don’t expect to happen to you—until it does. The technology industry is one of the worst offenders; over 60% of industry professionals report they’ve experienced burnout. Sixty percent! Chances are, you or someone you know has dealt with it. …
Edge Stream Data Processing Based On KubeEdge And Kuiper
Guest post by KubeEdge Maintainers Introduction: KubeEdge is an open-source edge computing platform. Based on the native container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes, KubeEdge achieves functionalities such as cloud-edge synergy, edge computing, edge device management, and edge autonomy. KubeEdge is also widely implemented in scenarios such as 5G MEC and AI cloud-edge synergy by using …
Think gRPC, When You Are Architecting Modern Microservices!
More than ever before, present day businesses want their IT systems to constantly evolve and be capable of responding positively to the changing goals and priorities. As they say, change is the only constant. In this context, microservices have become the proverbial Holy Grail for solution architects to design and build modern software. However, microservices …