Practical Technology

Opinion It’s a toss-up between Elon Musk’s management misadventures and Twitter’s technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. Twitter is in trouble. I mean, who blunders his way into a fight with Apple only to later claim it was all a…Read More

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he started by firing half of the social network’s staff. That’s a recipe for failure right there. Leaving aside Musk’s management and policy failures, social networks need experienced developers to keep moving…Read More

One bit of accepted wisdom in some cloud circles is that OpenStack, the open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, is declining. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s alive, well, and growing like crazy. According to the 2022…Read More

By the time you read this, there’s a decent chance Twitter will be dead in the water. Technically, there are many reasons I can safely predict its coming crash, but I’m not here to talk about Twitter remote procedure calls (RPCs) or its SMS…Read More

Ninety-five percent of web applications — that’s not a typo, 95% — have security holes. I know program security is bad, and so do you. We all know it. But when Synopsys announced in its latest report, the “Software Vulnerability Snapshot: The 10 Most…Read More

How bad? Is a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 10.0 bad enough for you? These days with security holes appearing fast and furious it takes a truly exceptional security bug to catch my eye. However, cloud native security company…Read More