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While the internet existed way before the Worldwide Web (WWW), the web changed everything. Its success has as much to do with the simplicity of using an HTTP web browser, as the fact that it was ...

When a report surfaced last month detailing a ‘severe vulnerability’ in Kubernetes, the popular, open-source software for managing Linux applications deployed within containers, many of us will ...

Cloud security firm Qualys, like every vendor today, is pushing the automation mantra. The company’s Web Application Scanning (WAS) 6.0 now supports Swagger version 2.0 to allow developers to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eran Kinsbruner, lead technical evangelist at Perfecto. Kinsbruner wants to uncover the mechanics behind an application ...

Amazon has confirmed that developers can now earn money for creating Alexa skills across more skill categories. Alexa is Amazon's intelligent personal assistant software designed to run in line ...

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...

If there's one technical expression likely to induce nausea in most industry watchers it is (arguably) digital (or user) experience. Sometime even written as User eXperience (UX), this term is ...

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...

Build once, deploy everywhere. We've heard it all before haven't we? Discussion now surfaces on a 'new' type of application. One that is being the progressive web app (or PWA, if you must). So what ...

HTTP accelerator company Varnish and Content Delivery Network (CDN) vendor Akamai are teaming up to launch the Akamai Connector for Varnish. Why is this (potentially) interesting? Well, the ...

Dries Buytaert is the founder and project lead of Drupal an open source platform for building websites used by 2% of the world's websites with 35,000 active contributors. Buytaert is ...

Embattled bygone era search firm Yahoo (exclamation point not included) has open sourced Pulsar, a  scalable low latency 'pub-sub' messaging system. The technology provides simple pub-sub messaging ...

Facebook has open sourced its Zstandard compression algorithm. The technology itself is said to outperform 'zlib', which has previously been considered to the reigning standard in this field. What ...

Software analytics company New Relic will now support web applications built with current and future Single-Page Application (SPA) frameworks and libraries. But what is a SPA anyway?