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Were you affected by the runC container breakout? Make sure your containers are all patched up and running safely and securely. When it comes to using containers, ensuring security should be everyone’s number one priority. What makes container vulnerabilities so dangerous?

Testing, testing! Are your mobile web apps ready for the big leagues? It’s time to put them through their paces with OpenTest, an open source functional test automation tool with cross-browser support for both Android and iOS.

Upwork’s latest skills index has a bunch of surprises for the hungry freelance market. It’s time to brush off your Hadoop skills and revisit your science textbooks. We take a look at what skills you should highlight on your resume, from machine learning skills to data security certifications.

How can we solve CPU issues when the application is already in production for the cloud? It’s not like we can fire up Task Manager and see what process is hogging all the CPU. Or can we? In this article, Ram Lakshmanan goes over the three simple steps any developer can follow when trying to diagnose and troubleshoot CPU issues.

Amazon Corretto was announced in November 2018 but this free distribution of OpenJDK is *now* generally available. We started the conversation about OpenJDK providers last year but now that new players are springing up, it’s time to revisit some projects that we might have missed.

Automating routine, boring tasks sounds great. Automation promises to rid developers of scutwork and let them focus on the meaty details. However, as Oren Eini explains, this is a snare that causes more problems than it solves.

In this article, Ilya Pupko, chief architect at Jitterbit, explains how the convergence of IoT and blockchain can transform an entire industry. How can these two pieces of technology work together in manufacturing to help streamline workloads and provide a better view of assembly processes? The digital revolution is here.

How does your organization’s API tool choices, struggles, and testing compare to others? SmartBear released the State of API 2019 report with data from over 3,000 respondents from different sectors around the world. Comb through the report with us for key takeaways and findings and discover where the API industry stands and where it’s headed in years to come.

Looking for serverless deployment for your JavaScript web apps? Next.js 8 provides a reactive framework for the mobile web while staying incredibly lightweight. Dramatically improve your reliability and scalability with Next.js today!

Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Two years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Jane Silber, Executive Chair of Diffblue and board member of Canonical.

February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Computer science has traditionally been a field dominated by men, however women around the world are making strides to close the gender gap. Let’s look at some of the advice and stories we have heard over the years about how to succeed as a woman in STEM.

It’s always a cause for celebration when another project becomes open source. Google recently open sourced their fuzz testing tool Clusterfuzz. Clusterfuzz has helped find over 16,000 bugs in Chrome. Assure quality control and add Clusterfuzz to your next software development.

Groovy moves and grooves right back to the top 20 for the TIOBE Index. What else is shaking on this programming pop chart? Well, Java continues to rock, TypeScript took a bit of a tumble, and SQL is going steady.

Have you taken your vitamins today? While Kalium probably won’t help stave off a bout of scurvy, it certainly will perk up your code. Kalium is a reactive framework designed for Java and Apache Spark.