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Understanding and Implementing a Software Bill of Materials

Software programs today can be likened to a complex stew, with multiple ingredients sourced from disparate places. In software, open-source tools are a major ingredient. According to the 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report produced by the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center, 99 percent of the codebases contain at least one open source component, with open source comprising 70 percent of the code overall.

Continuous integration for Go applications

Go, an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go’s efficiency with network servers and its friendly syntax make it a useful alternative to Node.js. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog.

AWS Lambda: function URL is live!

AWS announced the release of the Lambda Function URLs feature today. In this post, I describe what it is, how it works, and how you can benefit from it. API Gateway and AWS Lambda is a potent combination and lets you build REST APIs without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. API Gateway offers many powerful features out-of-the-box, including: Understandably you pay a premium for these features.

Observability for State and Local Government: Top 3 Challenges and How Monitoring Can Help

State and local governments require a high level of performance and reliability for the millions of people accessing their web applications every day. The talent shortage and lack of resources to train their staff on how to use new technologies prevents them from drawing valuable insights from modern IT environments. IT infrastructure monitoring allows state and local governments to stay ahead of technology trends and face common challenges with intelligence and transparency.

Atlassian Team '22 DevOps & Agile Keynote

Should you be in an open relationship? A diverse toolchain or a consolidated, all-in-one approach? Discover how Atlassian's open toolchain solution offers the best of both worlds: flexibility and coordination. We'll show how this new approach empowers software teams to adapt to change faster while measuring value streams by completing the software development life cycle of Discovery → Delivery → Operations.

What's New with Flowmon 12?

Flowmon 12 is here and ready for hybrid/multi-cloud deployments! With its latest release, Flowmon 12 brings the support of native flow logs from Google Cloud, and Azure and improves support for AWS flow logs. And that’s not all! Flowmon 12 brings fully redesigned reporting for better readability, command line tool to assess quality of the flow data and improvements in workflow and user experience based on customer feedback.

An Engineering Manager's Tips for Increasing Autonomy and Reducing Noise

Business is booming – your team is growing, your customer base is expanding, and you’re shipping more than ever. But without the right processes in place to scale, that fast-paced growth can leave engineering teams scrambling to navigate an increasingly more complex codebase, new team structures, and an ever-growing backlog of issues and requests. Join Jad Chamoun, Engineering Manager at Forethought, as he walks through how Forethought increased developer autonomy and workflow efficiency so their growing team can triage issues quickly without playing the blame game.

Double Click to Install: Create a PKG even your users can install from

You’ve got a script. Maybe you wrote it or maybe you found it online, but it handily solves a problem your users face or does a task you typically spend several minutes on with a single command many times a day. With any RMM platform, it would normally be a simple matter of deploying the script to those devices, setting the schedule for it to run, then sitting back and sipping your beverage of choice. Unless you’re in the server room—no food or drink in the server room.