Who would have thought software could rattle the White House? But a vulnerability in Log4J, a popular open source software project, exposed critical digital infrastructure to remote code execution attacks. This prompted the US Government to engage big tech, infosec professionals, and open source organizations to come together to help secure open source software.

Dedicated hosts for macOS are now available on CircleCI. This new layer of support is built exclusively for macOS and offers Apple developers unprecedented storage, security, and scalability on CircleCI. By reserving a dedicated host, teams can unlock access to a bare metal instance that provides exclusive access to an entire host machine for 24 hours.

We've gone through many iterations of ways to build, deploy and distribute applications written in Go at Cloud 66. Unlike Rails, Go applications can be web applications, daemons or CLIs and therefore have different requirements. I'll share some of what we've learned with you in this post.

Software testing is important enough to have its own phase in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The software testing life cycle (STLC) is a step-by-step process that improves the quality of software by applying rigorous planning and analysis to the testing process. Testing is a development tool that adds value to your team’s applications. Embracing testing as a vital component of software development can save you and your team a lot of time debugging and fixing errors in the future.