The devops certifications tech companies want

Devops continues to expand in development environments everywhere from small startups to the largest global enterprises. The worldwide devops market, including products and services, increased from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $12.4 billion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company. The firm predicts the market will expand to $37.33 billion by 2029. As increasingly…

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The best new features in MariaDB

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users….

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The right way to architect modern web applications

For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near-universal adoption, reveals its cracks under real-world scale, and is eventually replaced by a new “best practice” that promises to fix everything the last one broke. We saw it in the early 2000s, when server-rendered, monolithic applications were…

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EFF thinks it’s cracked the AI slop problem

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Thursday changed its policies regarding AI-generated code to “explicitly require that contributors understand the code they submit to us and that comments and documentation be authored by a human.” The EFF policy statement was vague about how it would determine compliance, but analysts and others watching the space speculate that…

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