European cyberspace is witnessing a paradigm shift as governments are grappling with the reality that the cyber framework in their jurisdiction is vulnerable to gargantuan prominence. One such forward ...

brings in a transitive dependency on org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.36 to plug in place of commons-logging used by some Maven libs. Uses SLF4J Logger by itself So while we are shading the dependency ...

When an open-source component reaches end of life (EOL), the risks extend far beyond that single package. Most components rely on third-party libraries, creating chains of transitive dependencies.

In a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

A malicious package recently uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) is the latest manifestation of the growing sophistication of software supply chain threats. Security researchers at JFrog ...

While extreme weather events have unfortunately become more common and already figured last year in the top three, geopolitical risk is something business leaders increasingly have to deal with. Over ...

When using pnpm as the package manager, Bruno cannot access transitive dependencies of external libraries (e.g., knox-token-library-js) due to pnpm's strict and nested node_modules structure.

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...