GitLab is an open source platform for software development. GitLab started with the ability to manage git repositories and now has functionality for collaboration, issue tracking, continuous integration, logging, and tracing. GitLab’s core business is selling to enterprises who want a self-hosted git installation, such as banks or other companies who prefer not to use

An operating system kernel manages the system resources that are needed to run applications. The Linux kernel runs most of the smart devices that we interact with, and is the largest open source project in history. Shuah Khan has worked on operating systems for two decades, including 13 years at HP and 5 years at

Malware is malicious software that makes money for the creator of that software. Malware can appear onto a user’s computer if that user visits a malicious website or installs malicious software by accident. There are many types of malware. Spyware sits on your machine and logs your data in order to sell it. Ransomware can

Advertising fraud occurs when a brand pays for an advertisement online and that advertisement is shown to an automated bot account that has been created to view ads. Advertising fraud is rampant on the Internet. It’s not possible to know how much money is lost to ad fraud, but the costs are in the billions

The demand for electricity is based on the consumption of the electrical grid at a given time. The supply of electricity is based on how much energy is being produced or stored on the grid at a given time. Because these sources of supply and demand fluctuate rapidly but predictably, energy markets present profit opportunities

Cloud computing started to become popular in 2006 with the release of Amazon EC2, a system for deploying applications to virtual machines sitting on remote data center infrastructure . With cloud computing, application developers no longer needed to purchase expensive server hardware. Creating an application for the Internet became easier, cheaper, and simpler. As the

Monitoring tools are used by every area of an organization. Business development teams use monitoring to understand the metrics for product performance. Finance teams need to understand how the costs of cloud computing resources are changing. Site reliability engineers use monitoring dashboards that applications are up and running without problematic latency. Product managers evaluate the

WebAssembly is a runtime that lets languages beyond JavaScript to execute in frontend web applications. WebAssembly is novel because most modern frontend applications are written entirely in JavaScript. WebAssembly lets us use languages like Rust and C++ after they have been compiled down to a web assembly binary module. Language interoperability is only one part

Computational integrity is a property that is required for financial transactions on the Internet. Computational integrity means that the output of a certain computation is correct. If I deposit money into my bank, my bank sends me a number that represents the new balance in my account. I assume that the number they have sent

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