Tag: community
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Flood of security patches: Spring Framework ed.
Community security reports for Spring, by month. In April, utilizing new scanning capabilities, we received an unprecedented 482 new security reports across 65 scanned projects. Of those 482 new reports, 370 came from our internal scanning capabilities and 112 came from the community. This means that even without the new scanning, we would still have…
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Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Tech people are amazingly bad at marketing to The Community. And by “the community,” I mean normal people, not the “open source community.” Take the datacenter problem. Tech companies need more compute, so they need datacenters. They plop them down in some small town, avoid paying taxes, and consume huge amounts of electricity and water.…
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up comedy, and improv theater. She talks about platform engineering, the importance…
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🤖 The 2025 OWASP Top 10 rebrands “Vulnerable Components” as “Software Supply Chain Failures” and elevates “Security Misconfiguration” to the number two spot. Chris Cropper and Rita Manachi analyze the changes and argue that bypassing security controls for the sake of “innovation” is increasingly a liability, not a competitive advantage. 🔗 Beyond a Team Sport,…
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The great OpenStack conundrum: with 15,000 members, why is adoption lagging?
This is the common OpenStack meme for coverage. Each Summit there’s more and more users – “customers” – but it will take a while before OpenStack is suddenly us an “overnight success.” Looking at it from a different perspective, OpenStack is one of the biggest, new model for open source development: they’re iterating on the…
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