1 / 19Try These Easy Christmas Mocktails for a Seasonal Sip Without the AlcoholA cold glass of milk with a plate of gingerbread cookies isn't the only non-alcoholic drink option available to you during the Christmas season. And while a spiked cup of hot chocol... More »
A protective face mask lies on the sidewalk in New York City on Oct. 26. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)COVID-19 updates. View latest news.WASHINGTON — Coronavirus infection rates rose steadily through the first half of November across Los Angeles County, then beg... More »
Hate mealy apples and soggy french fries? Science can help.Restaurants, grocers, farmers, and food companies are increasingly turning to chemistry and physics to tackle the problem of food waste.Some are testing spray-on peels or chemically enhanced sachets th... More »
Dear Reader, About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph... More »
We all know the adage — “Bad workers blame their tools.” But here’s five reasons why the software tools involved in DevOps in general, and the CI/CD pipeline in particular, have become part of the problem rather than the solution. 1. They take too long to dep... More »
Perhaps you missed the big news: In 2023, there will be a record-breaking 12 women serving as governors around the nation. Way over the previous record of … nine.And your reaction is:Hey, that’s 24 percent — not bad.That’s less than a quarter!Are any of them g... More »
Play Fortnite? You could earn more than just V-Bucks.The Federal Trade Commission said Monday it settled claims with Fortnite maker Epic Games over children's privacy and payment systems tricking players into making unintended purchases.Epic will pay $520 mill... More »
The city of Blanco sits on the edge of darkness, and it’s trying to stay there.Nestled in the rural Hill Country of Central Texas, the 1,700-person town is confronting a challenge both new and ancient: light pollution. As the world urbanizes, dark skies are be... More »
Where is DevOps going? Is it ‘dead’ as some are suggesting, to be replaced by other disciplines such as platform engineering? I would proffer that while it was never as simple as that, now is as good a moment as any to reflect on approaches such as those discu... More »
Sweat your infrastructure, review your contracts and assess your workloads All mid-market organizations are reviewing how they can make better use of their budgets next year. This starts with the infrastructure you have already paid for and how to get the most... More »
We’ve spoken to over 800 vendors over the past year so that we can get input into our Radar reports, our evaluations of the industry, and the market categories we cover. There is no cost to participate in a Radar report, however it, does take time and effort t... More »
GitOps is great, isn’t it? What’s that, I hear you ask. Simply put, in these days, where all infrastructure can be virtualized, GitOps is about managing information about what that needs to look like (written as a text file), alongside the application that’s g... More »