Patricia Johnson

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Node Package Manager (npm) was a revolutionary addition to web application programming. It allowed developers to create small, reusable pieces of code and share them with the developer community. npm gives developers massive flexibility and makes developing applications incredibly simple, but there are also potential pitfalls when it comes to ... Read More

The holiday season is upon us. Hopefully by this time we’ve all emerged from our food coma, and braved Black Friday and Cyber Monday mayhem in time to start developing some Christmas cheer. While everyone has been getting at their holiday shopping lists, our hardworking research team carved out some ... Read More

Open source components have become an essential part of today’s software development process, helping development organizations speed up release cycles and push out innovative software faster. In fact, over 90% of the respondents to a survey recently conducted by Gartner stated that they rely on open source components. However, open ... Read More

November is here, and those of us in the US know what that means: the carved pumpkins of Halloween will soon be replaced by pumpkin pies, and the ooky spooky haunted house decorations will make way for the arguably scarier tradition of Thanksgiving family gatherings. However, there’s one occurrence that ... Read More

Containers have been one of the hottest trends in the software industry in recent years as more organizations turn to them to build, test, and deploy faster without the frictions that can come from changing environments. However, while tools like Kubernetes and Container Registries have become household names for developers ... Read More

Autumn is officially upon us. While some take time this season to stock up on pumpkin spice and Halloween decorations, our Knowledge Team dove into the really scary stuff — reviewing the new open source security vulnerabilities published in September. In order to deliver our monthly top five new security ... Read More