On August 13 2023, users of HashiCorp’s Terraform forked the software under the name OpenTF. This was a strong and rapid community reaction to HashiCorp switching the license on their products merely three days before. The list of companies and individuals pledging their support to the new fork has been overwhelming. The new license that HashiCorp has chosen for its products, the Business Source License (BSL), is no longer open source, but instead source-available.
JWT is a popular way for authentication and authorization, especially for service to service communications. When it comes to internal tools, distribution and renewal of JWT can become a challenge. Our internal support systems use JWT to authenticate and authorize access and they are written in a few different languages and run on different hosting options.
My name is Georgina and I’m the Marketing Manager at RapidSpike, you may know me from hit budget Christmas adverts such as ‘Twas the Night Before Magecart’ and ‘Christmas Parties’. This week marks 5 years working at RapidSpike and in the general marketing tech space. It’s been a jam-packed 5 years. I’ve had the privilege of expanding my marketing knowledge, trying new things, and working with some of the best people I know.
I’m launching a new Observability Series called the Observability Professor, and it is designed to cover some common topics and terms in a vendor agnostic way. That’s right, no marketing! So what’s special, what’s new, what’s it going to cover that everyone else in the industry missed? Background: There are endless amounts of blogs, papers, and books on Observability; what it is and what it offers.
Over the years working as a software engineer and now a product manager, I’ve encountered multiple situations where I needed to extract numerical data from a page on a periodic basis and create visualizations, typically line charts to help me see trends over time. For example, I wanted to extract product prices and monitor them over time. Or, I wanted to query a search engine periodically and extract the number of matches or the position of a specific page for SEO purposes.
Soaring inflation, rising interest rates, supply chain disruption, spikes in chip costs, war, and other market crises have collectively crippled the global economy. As a result, businesses across industries and sizes have started tightening their belt, looking for any way to optimize their spending. With businesses running on a digital layer, optimizing spending on technology holds prominence. CIOs and CTOs now feel more accountable for every penny that goes into IT.
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at five ways your business can minimize unplanned network downtime. Network downtime is the bane of the IT service provider. It disrupts not only internal operations, but can greatly inconvenience your customer who relies on the uninterrupted access to and the full functioning of your product or service.
