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I began my round of 2016 with how eventful it was, and 2017 continued to deliver major world events that shook countries, cities and people. Despite this, I had a largely positive year, switching from an employee back to a contractor again, which was a largely positive move. I changed my major outlet from SitePoint to DZone, added a handful of others, wrote a lot of content marketing posts for tech companies, wrote a book and (nearly) finished a video course. On top of all that I travelled to many places, including cities and countries I had never been to before.

Chef recently introduced the Habitat tool, bringing Chef's advantages to automation and continuous integration. Learn about the suite of tools that make it possible.

The big question with any paid service is whether the cost justifies the features. Let's break down the Kontena SaaS platform so you can decide.

CircleCI is becoming the CI tool of choice for developers who want to spend more time coding than managing infrastructure. Listen to Chris Ward speak with the CTO.

Check out this software development conference that's currently catering to devs in Australia, but is soon expanding to Southeast Asia.

As serverless's popularity grows, so have the number of FaaS providers. Let's break down what's out there, how they work, and whether they're right for you.

Thingworx is a comprehensive SaaS platform for creating AR experiences for Industry 4.0 and IoT-heavy workplaces. Here are some use cases to consider.

As is typical with new concepts and technologies, the absolute definition of “serverless” or FaaS (Functions as a Service) is broad and undefined. In essence, it is a concept that takes cloud computing and “convenience as a service” to the extreme, spinning up processing power when your application needs it and responding with data.

GraphQL allows you to query data in the data-heavy age. It's backed and used by Facebook, but is new and still has tooling gaps. GraphCool aims to solve this.

In this article, we look at languages, IDEs, Wallets, and several other tools that you'll need to work with Solidity and blockchain.

Ruby is an opinionated language with inbuilt Ruby logging options that will serve the needs of small and basic applications. Whilst there are fewer alternatives to these than say, the JavaScript world, there are a handful, and in this post, I will highlight those that are active (based on age and commit activity) and help you figure out the options for logging your Ruby (and Rails applications).

A DZone Zoner Leader and a fellow developer discuss the similarities between playing music and writing code. Listen in on this awesome conversation!

Design for people, but write for ears. Get this and more wisdom in this short writer's guide to creating conversational interfaces that use AI to communicate.

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Humans have always loved tech. But we're quite a ways from stone tools, and this new tech raises some interesting ethical conundrums for developers.

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Anyone interested in getting started with programming robots should check out this interview. Learn what it takes to program a robot.

This interview with Mark Lorion, President and General Manager at Apperian, discusses the company's offerings for business app management.

It’s the morning of February 28, 2017, and vast swathes of the internet are unavailable. From individual sites to services that thousands of others rely on — such as Slack, Quora, GitHub and Trello — many are unavailable. You probably remember the day that ‘human error‘ took down so much of the internet, with broad components of AWS that no longer worked. This isn’t the first time an outage has brought the internet to its knees — but the sheer scale of AWS always means that the impact is felt.

Back in my Docker hosting post, I noted that deploying and orchestrating containers live was still a missing step in the Docker workflow for many developers. A handful of complex orchestration tools entered to fill the void, with large cloud companies offering to host your setup for you. In that post, I intentionally avoided tools that sat in the middle of this process by helping you to deploy containers to cloud services, but there are plenty of them, including Docker’s own official cloud service. There is still plenty of opportunity for similar services and less than a month ago, I heard of a new option, Kontena.

See how GitHub became a leader in version control; learn about the Discovery tab, and how they help you not only code better, but collaborate and communicate.

Investing in a country, bringing blockchain to the developing world, and making smart contracts easier are just some of the topics covered today.

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Learn about Ubuntu Core's role in IoT development and how Snaps, as a packaging system, augment Linux, containers, and IoT.

Listen in on this half-hour podcast interview with OpenStack's release manager, covering how to manage projects with large numbers of contributors.

We take a look at what some countries around the world are doing to promote cryptocurrency, as well as how some innovative companies are using blockchain.

As is traditional with the JavaScript world, there are a dizzying amount of options for node logging. In this article, I will dig into some of the better and lesser known options to see what’s on offer and help you log better in your Node applications.

With GraphQL and tools like it, do you still need to manually document anything? Or can you fire your tech writers right away? Let's check in a real codebase!

Before we begin, note that this post isn’t intended as an introduction to GraphQL. For a beginner’s guide, I suggest Derek Haynes’ Codeship post or howtographql.com.

Learn about Sencha's ExtReact, making cross-platform desktop and mobile components available for the React framework, in this interview.