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Michele Paolino | May 23, 2017 paolino-agl.jpg
To realize smart-connected vehicles, the automotive industry needs a hardware and software architecture that guarantees security, simplified systems management, high processing/networking performance, open standards, interoperability, and flexibility.
Virtualization: The Smart-Connected Vehicle Enabler
The automotive electronic industry is now, more than ever, facing cybersecurity, connectivity, and software time-to-market challenges. Recently, in fact, vehicles have been hacked in several ways (e.g., physical and remote unlocking/control) and by different means (i.e., CAN bus, OBD-II, emulated...
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The New Stack | May 23, 2017
TNS Research: Tell Us About Your Kubernetes Experience
The New Stack provides comprehensive coverage of the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine, and we’re looking to invest in the community even further. In 2016, our survey reported on “The Present State of Container Orchestration,” but a lot has changed in the last year. While...
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Bret Fisher | May 23, 2017
Node.js Docker "Good Defaults": A Best Practice Template for Node In A Container
TL;DR: Get the Project Skeleton on GitHub and improve your Node+Docker skills
I've been a Node fan since 2012, when Kevin Griffin and I shifted our bootstrap startup to it from asp.net. I'm no expert (like the ETA shop is) but I've used it and Docker long enough to learn the happy path for...
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IEEE Spectrum | May 23, 2017
Agile Development Spawns a Lexicon
In his 1957 book Parkinson’s Law, and Other Studies in Administration, the naval historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson writes of a fictional committee meeting during which, after a two-and-a-half-minute nondiscussion on whether to build a nuclear reactor worth US $10 million, the members...
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dnsimple | May 23, 2017
Tales of a Chef Workflow: Data Bags
One of the many features of Chef is something called a Data Bag. Simply put, this allows you to store a blob of JSON based data on a Chef server that is shared across your Chef environments. If you have organizational level data that must be shared and not unique across environments, this is a...
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OpenSource.com | May 23, 2017
An Introduction to Libral, A Systems Management Library for Linux
Libral provides a uniform management API across system resources and serves as a solid foundation for scripting management tasks and building configuration-management systems.
Linux, in keeping with Unix traditions, doesn't have a comprehensive systems management API. Instead, management is done...
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SenseDeep Security | May 22, 2017
Web Developer Security Checklist
Developing secure, robust web applications in the cloud is hard, very hard. If you think it is easy, you are either a higher form of life or you have a painful awakening ahead of you.
If you have drunk the MVP Kool-aid and believe that you can create a product in one month that is both valuable and...
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InfoWorld | May 22, 2017
10 JavaScript Concepts Every Node.js Programmer Must Master
With JavaScript and the V8 engine at the core, an event-driven architecture, and scalability out of the box, Node.js has quickly become the new de facto standard for creating web applications and SaaS products. Many frameworks like Express, Sails, and Socket.IO enable users to quickly bootstrap...
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O'Reilly | May 22, 2017
Using Docker in Production
Right now, Docker is an excellent tool to manage distributed applications. This is the result of quite a bit of evolution; in its earlier stages, Docker focused mainly on managing containers themselves. Thinking back to two or three years ago, getting started with Docker was a bit of a pain because...
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The New Stack | May 22, 2017
Security in Serverless: What Gets Better, What Gets Worse?
The emerging serverless computing architecture alleviates several server-oriented security risks, but it also requires new threat analysis and prevention, asserted Snyk CEO and co-founder Guy Podjarny said at the Serverlessconf conference in Austin recently.
In his presentation, Podjarny broke...
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