In the Process of Becoming: The Millions Interviews Amina Cain
I first encountered Amina Cain’s writing with her first book of short stories, I Go to Some Hollow, published by Les Figues Press. I remember impressions—her laconic...
COVID-19: Documenting your code is now essential. There is a better way. (Part 4)
Introduction In Part 1, we discussed the personal and human factors affecting all of us during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Part 2 of this series we...
IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 has been released with support for Java 14
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 has arrived, as Artem Sarkisov announced on the IntelliJ IDEA blog. The latest major version has new features for Ultimate Edition and...
Women in Tech: “If no one gives you the right possibility to grow, you must create it alone.”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
“The Open Source Way has proven itself as the leading way to develop software solutions”
JAXenter: Hi Jan and thanks for taking the time for the interview. At the OpenRheinMain 2019 in Darmstadt/Germany, you spoke passionately about open source. Of course,...
A New Connection with the Lost Art of Phone Conversation
The old-fashioned fuddy-duddy telephone—which once seemed as dated as Dorothy Parker’s short story “The Telephone Call,” in which a young woman waits desperately for a man...
Infrastructure as code vs. platform as code
In its simplest form, the tech stack of any application has three layers — the infra layer containing bare metal instances, virtual machines, networking, firewall, security...
PyCharm 2020.1 adds visual interactive rebasing and smarter debugging
In PyCharm 2020.1, JetBrains adds new features for both the Community Edition and the Professional Edition of its Python IDE. Let’s dive right in and see...
Kubernetes: How to use readiness, liveness, and startup probes
Typical questions around these probes are: Do we need separate endpoints for liveness- and readiness-probes? Do we always need both? Does the endpoint’s code check the...
Combatting AI bias: remembering the human at the heart of the data is key
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – once considered the stuff of science fiction – has now permeated almost every aspect of our society. From making decisions regarding arrests...
