We knew Python was the right choice, but we had lingering doubts about our decision to continue avoiding Python 3. After taking a closer look, we found that things had changed drastically since the last time we'd seriously considered this question, and the scale was no longer decidedly tipped against Python 3.
We ask hard questions while celebrating the remarkable life of Hypatia, patron pagan saint of (computer) science, precursor to Admiral Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Carol Shaw, and to many esteemed, unsung women in mathematics and physics.
With the rising popularity of stateless application tiers, a separation of concerns with SOA architectures, and DevOps practices like Continuous Deployment, expect the "virtual mindset" to subside.
If you store customer information in any way - be it enterprise customer data or the emails and passwords of your registered users - you're responsible for safeguarding that information. Your startup is a security startup.
The agent/server model is another example of expanding the vulnerability surface in computing that has already shown itself to be far too large and permeable. The only solutions that will improve security and automation will avoid use of the agent/server model and should have no routable address space between them.
AWS's focus for this year's re:Invent conference was on bringing enterprise customers into the cloud, but the company clearly recognizes that the future lies in nurturing a vibrant ecosystem of developers and cloud-native businesses.
The level of energy and excitement at re:Invent was something none of us had experienced at a software conference before. There are likely many reasons for this, but we primarily attribute it to the fact that AWS has established itself as the undisputed front-runner in cloud with significant momentum among developers and ISVs.
The entire Luminal team will be attending AWS re:Invent 2013 this week.
How to get to an efficient, secure, and highly resilient VPC design on AWS.
This Friday marks the 49th birthday of the ideas behind one of the most powerful characters in the command shell (both *nix and Windows): the pipe. For those who don't know, the pipe is this character: | It's Shift-Backslash on a US keyboard, and it is used to send the output of one process to the input of another.