Picture this: it’s a work day at an enterprise payments processing company, and there is a critical data engineering task that needs to be completed. In this case, I’m the data engineer who needs to finish the task, but I am missing information necessary for my data model to be finished. I heard the information […]
IT organizations worldwide are struggling to meet their business objectives for application performance. The growth of the hybrid workforce and the movement of applications to the cloud have put both employee productivity and high-quality customer experiences at risk. One key contributor to this increased risk is that most companies rely on legacy monitoring tools such […]
Together, the Java Development Kit (JDK), the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) form a powerful trifecta of Java and Jakarta EE platform components for developing and running Java applications. They all work together to let developers build and run Java programs. I’ve previously introduced the JDK and JVM. In this quick […]
Although the various technologies that make up what’s been dubbed “Web3” are unlikely to replace the massive infrastructure and software investments we’ve made during the past three decades, there’s still something interesting there. The first question we need to ask is, what problems can they solve? Web3 proponents suggest that at heart, it’s a massive […]
Malicious apps used in this active campaign exfiltrate contacts, SMS messages, recorded phone calls, and even chat messages from apps such as Signal, Viber, and Telegram ESET researchers have identified an active campaign targeting Android users, conducted by the Bahamut APT group. This campaign has been active since January 2022 and malicious apps are distributed […]
(Image: ZDNET) Although Black Friday is still two days away, you don’t have to wait to snag the year’s best deals on tech. Right now, we’re seeing tons of early Black Friday discounts on TVs, laptops, tablets, phones, and even Apple products like the AirPods and iPad. A number of big retailers — including Amazon, Walmart, […]
Java 20, the next planned version of standard Java, has added four more proposed features recently, although they are capabilities previously previewed or incubated in standard Java and are being previewed or incubated again. Newly proposed capabilities for Java 20, or JDK (Java Development Kit) 20, are second previews of record patterns, a foreign function […]
This chapter provides an introduction to animation in SwiftUI through building an app that lets the user experiment with the different basic animations and compares how different parameters affect those animations. In this chapter, you’ll learn about explicit and implicit animations in SwiftUI and how to use interpolation functions to change their behavior. Learn how […]
As Mastodon experiences explosive user growth as a replacement for Twitter, infosec experts are pointing out security holes in the social media network. From an anonymous server collecting user information to configuration errors that create vulnerabilities, the increased popularity of the platform is leading to increased scrutiny of its flaws. Unlike other social media apps, […]
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is a cybersecurity response strategy that focuses on three core principles: Early detection of indicators of attacks. Fast containment of compromised systems. Rapid eradication of malware from infected systems. The earlier an attack is detected, the easier it is to contain and eradicate it. The longer it goes undetected, the […]