Unraveling the Three-Body Problem in Software Testing: Balancing Speed, Quality, and Cost
The three-body problem, a mathematical conundrum presented by Isaac Newton and the inspiration behind Netflix’s new multi-million dollar series by the same name, can teach us a lot about mathematics… and quality assurance. Hear me out. What is the three-body problem? Astronomers and mathematicians have been perplexed ...
How the Recent CrowdStrike Incident is Forcing CIOs to Rethink Their Cloud Strategies
The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly ...
How Intel’s AI Innovations Are Transforming the Olympic Games
Last week, Intel shared how its AI technology will be a significant part of the Olympics experience. If Intel pulls this off, it would be a huge boost to its AI efforts. If this doesn’t work, it will reflect poorly on Intel. I’ve been involved with two ...
Spring Ecosystem Announces Exciting New Milestone Releases
```htmlThere was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of July 15th, 2024, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1; Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6; Spring Security 6.4.0-M1; Spring Session 3.4.0-M1; Spring Integration 6.4.0-M1; and Spring Modulith 1.3.0-M1; Spring AMQP 3.2.0-M1; and Spring for Apache ...
How CrowdStrike’s Security Incident Disrupted Debian and Rocky Linux: Hackers Exploit Friday’s Chaos
In context: A glitch with CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor agent caused havoc across the globe last week, and the chaos continues as malicious actors rush to take advantage. Amid the turmoil, it is instructive to consider a little-noticed event earlier this year when a CrowdStrike update caused all ...