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The most important new features in CockroachDB

CockroachDB 20.2 brings a Kubernetes operator, spatial data, a new storage engine, SQL enhancements, and much more, extending the range of workloads for which the database can be used.

How to find and fix performance problems in PHP applications

With Sentry Performance Monitoring for PHP, developers can quickly identify performance issues with PHP-based applications and view end-to-end traces to pinpoint issues and surface related errors.

How to bring zero-trust security to microservices

Why we must use a zero-trust security model in microservices and how to implement it using the Kuma universal service mesh.

4 technical hurdles to quantum computing

Viable, large-scale quantum computers will require better qubits, better control chip technology, more advanced error correction, and new components at every layer of the stack. We’re making progress.

Using OPA for multicloud policy and process portability

How Open Policy Agent allows developer teams to write and enforce consistent policy and authorization across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments

Solving query optimization in Presto

By combining machine learning and adaptive query execution, query optimization in Presto could become smarter and more efficient over repeated use.

3 ways containers shine in a crisis

Linux containers provide the kind of flexible, agile, and secure development environment needed during times of change

Today’s data science roles won’t exist in 10 years

AutoML is poised to turn developers into data scientists — and vice versa. Here’s how AutoML will radically change data science for the better.

4 steps to DevSecOps in your software supply chain

How to improve dependency management by ‘shifting security left’ and providing developers with a unified CI/CD pipeline

Using OPA for cloud-native app authorization

How companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Yelp, Chef, and Atlassian use OPA for ‘who-and what-can-do-what’ application policy

Building a hybrid SQL Server infrastructure

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.

Understanding GraphQL engine implementations

Among the many ways of implementing a GraphQL engine, only one approach offers the same performance, scalability, and ACID guarantees as the underlying database.

How Oracle v. Google could upend software development

If Oracle convinces the U.S. Supreme Court that APIs are copyrightable, the impact will be felt by software developers across the globe

How to run Cassandra and Kubernetes together

Kubernetes runs distributed applications, and Apache Cassandra provides a distributed database environment. Here’s how you can run them together

How MariaDB achieves global scale with Xpand

A new MariaDB storage engine provides distributed SQL and massive scalability with a shared nothing architecture, fully distributed ACID transactions, and strong consistency

Why you should use Presto for ad hoc analytics

A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides

What TikTok teaches enterprises about tech entanglement

Our infrastructure, apps, and data must be designed in a way that makes them portable and flexible enough to be separated cleanly if needed

Using OPA to safeguard Kubernetes

Open Policy Agent addresses Kubernetes authorization challenges with a full toolkit for integrating declarative policies into any number of application and infrastructure components