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IFA Berlin was an assortment of connected products, robots, and personal assistants. See what the future looks like for development.

We discuss Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, and the impact they're having on the blockchain and cryptocurrency world. Read on for more!

In this article, we explore a new application that makes it easy for devs to play the role of data scientist and interview a PM at the company.

The MacBook Touch Bar has been notoriously labelled as a useless feature... however, it may have found a home with the Atom Text Editor. Check out these different packages that extend touch bar functionality to Atom.

I will assume you are at least familiar with the concept of microservices — loosely coupled services that provide discrete solutions to business use cases that you can combine to solve current needs and demand. The architectural pattern has gained popularity over the past years, and although not everyone is completely sure what “doing it right” looks like, it’s a concept that suits modern needs and is here to stay for the foreseeable future.

In this podcast interview, learn how Datical is bringing easy-to-use tools inspired by DevOps practices to the traditionally messy world of enterprise databases.

On occasion, I have created content for and taught computing subjects to students, ranging from absolute newcomers to computers and coding to professionals wanting to top up their skills. When I first started, options for learning to code were limited, restricted to university and college courses that often assumed some prior knowledge and required commitment, time, and money.

I spoke with Pepperdata CEO Ash Munshi about what the company offers and how their customers save hours from running inefficient processing jobs.

While you may not have plans for creating data-driven applications that target the Indian market, the example of a large government creating this platform is interesting.

We take a look at a new educational platform that allows beginning devs to sync up their GitHub accounts and practice their new found development skills.

Coralogix released a new addon for Heroku. In this post we cover best Logging practices, how different cloud providers enable them, what makes Heroku logging special, and how Coralogix utilizes Heroku’s approach to provide it’s 3rd generation logging experience.

Learn about the history and product range of the popular NGINX web server in this interview with its product management director, Liam Crilly.

Podcasting is undergoing a renaissance with listeners consuming on-demand shows at unprecedented levels, and creators enjoying surprising levels of success with their work. One thing that sets apart the amateurs from the professionals is good content, but the other is production values. Here are some of the things I’ve learned, along with recommendations on the hardware, software and techniques to get you started podcasting using your Mac.

Yael Eisenstat has an interesting past. She ‘came out’ as a long term CIA employee in January 2017 after Donald Trump delivered a poorly received speech in front of the C.I.A. Memorial Wall. She didn’t intend to be sensationalist or release state secrets like some previous ex-secret service employees who revealed their identity, rather she had had enough of Trumps stream of insults to her country and hoped that her actions could make a difference. She has advised vice-presidents and major corporate companies and now works at New York University as an adjunct professor. Whilst at the eccentric and eclectic Tech Open Air in Berlin, I spoke with Yael to discuss technology, its impact on society, and we, or tech companies can and should do about it.

While sci-fi predicted sweeping changes in cyborgs, like limb replacement, the truth probably lies in a smaller start, like embedding sensors in our bodies. Liviu Babitz, Founder of Cyborg Nest, agrees, predicting that we will instead look to add new senses or enhance those we already have in small and subtle ways. Liviu began with a small sensor that vibrates when he is facing north, in itself not the most useful sense to possess, but a step in the right direction to show what could be possible.

These graphical user interfaces give you a bunch of different and useful ways to interact with Docker. Read on to learn what each one can do.

With the latest update, Postman now allows access to monitoring, documentation, mock servers, and other API features for users of its free version.

Lucan Carlson talks about Automic's campaign to bring DevOps style automation and practices to everyone in a business, regardless of their role.

Flexera Software offers tools for producers and consumers of open source software to help ensure compliance and security of open source software in enterprise.

Around me are dozens of vintage cars in an old warehouse, tucked into a corner of Berlin’s north west. Those into cars are in heaven, dashing around the vast building, snapping photos of shiny vehicles as old as most attendees. I on the other hand head straight to the coffee and snacks.

The Docker API has allowed for a plethora of options for interfacing with Docker, your containers, and images to emerge from CLIs to desktop applications and web-based management tools. I am a fan of graphical user interfaces and thought it was time to survey the current landscape of GUIs for interacting with Docker.

I listen to hours of developer-focused podcasts each week covering tech, current affairs, board games, and general geekery. I even started my own podcast, which I have a lot of fun making. Hundreds of developers have written blog posts recommending thousands of different podcast series. There's no shortage of such recommendations for software engineers, so I won't subject you to another one of those lists. Instead, I'll idenfity specific podcast episodes that I think nailed a particular topic and were extremely engaging and fascinating from a developer's or technologist's perspective. For some of them, the interview subject or guest was especially interesting, or a discussion cropped up that was really compelling. For some reason, these episodes were very memorable, and that's why I think each one is worth your time.

Check out a key interview with one of the key developers behind the Apache Web Server about the Hyperledger Foundation, which aims to bring blockchain mainstream.

I sat down with Pravin Halady, product manager at NodeSource, to discuss why enterprise developers might need a safer and more secure version of Node.js and npm and what it's like running a business where your biggest competition is the creator of the product you sell.

A DZone Zone Leader interviews several startups to see how their developers are shaping the future across several industries.

A DZone Zone Leader interviews a member of the project management team at NodeSource, and discusses the possibilities Node.js and npm bring to businesses.

Running applications in containers is an increasingly popular way of maintaining large, distributed stacks that change based on demand. The Java VM heritage makes it an ideal language for container-based infrastructures. With many moving parts and components, monitoring Java applications in containers requires planning and choosing the right tools to monitor the aspects that matter to you.

HashiCorp tools have been around and are a standard for their contributions to continuous integration workflows. Learn the basics here.

I recently switched back to freelancing full-time, and whilst I am lucky enough to have clients who don’t ask for precise hourly breakdowns, I have always been intrigued to know how much time I was spending on work tasks, especially those tasks that I didn’t directly bill for.

HashiCorp is a company that feels like it’s always been around. Quietly plugging away just out of the limelight working on awesome products and every now and then releasing something groundbreaking that you wondered how you worked without it. I attended a couple of meetups recently that covered HashiCorp tools and felt the time was ripe I dug into all they have to offer a CI workflow.