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Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…
I've been running Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming together in production for about five years. Not in demo environments or proof-of-concept projects. In systems processing insurance claims, manufacturing telemetry, and financial transaction data, with SLAs and compliance requirements, and people who call you at 2 AM when things break. There's a version of Kafka plus Spark Structured Streaming that looks elegant in architecture diagrams and falls apart in the first month of production. There
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Platform Engineering and DevOps: How Internal Platforms, Developer Experience, and Modern DevOps Practices Accelerate Software Delivery. High-performing engineering organizations don’t scale through heroics. They scale through repeatable platform capabilities backed by evidence. This checklist reflects the shift from tool‑centric DevOps to product‑oriented platform engineering, focused on scale, re
Novee researchers discovered an account takeover vulnerability in the open source CFP management tool Pretalx. The post Vulnerability in Popular Conference Software Granted Attackers a 100% Talk Acceptance Rate appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth Edeokoh share their experience while building applications for Thoughtworks's global marketing. They learned that to combat this we need to write a security context file to guide the AI, be cautious with AI permission requests, create a daily security
Strong Active Directory passwords don't have to come at the expense of usability. Specops Software explains how passphrases, breached password protection, and self-service resets can improve security without frustrating users. [...]
Conductor on Vercel Multiple parallel coding agents running at scale in the cloud Model-agnostic, works with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents Used by engineering teams at Notion, Linear, Ramp, and Life360 Interacting with a single coding agent feels natural, and Conductor makes directing a fleet of agents just as intuitive. It's a GUI for spinning up multiple coding agents in parallel, each working on an isolated branch of your codebase at once. You review their work, merge what
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