Tag: Software engineering
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How the EU Cyber Resilience Act governs supply chain security
Posted on October 24, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The EU Cyber Resilience Act forces a fundamental shift in software architecture, demanding that security boundaries extend beyond the application to encompass the entire supply chain and non-human identities. By Ryan Daws.
Tags architecture-and-apis security-and-privacy software-engineering
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What is a software bill of materials (SBOM)?
Posted on October 22, 2026, Level intermediate Resource Length long
As software supply chain security shifts from a best practice to a regulatory baseline, engineering leaders must decide how to integrate Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) into their automated delivery pipelines. By GitHub.
Tags security-and-privacy software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Digital sovereignty is written in PHP
Posted on October 16, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Across Europe, public administrations have standardized on PHP applications for digital infrastructure. From Germany's €108 million Government Site Builder to Drupal-powered EU platforms, PHP underpins government services. This article examines the architectural trade-offs, maintenance dependencies, and procurement shifts that make PHP the de facto standard for digital sovereignty. By Sebastian Bergmann.
Tags software-engineering backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure
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AI agents aren't 'going rogue': Labs skip security basics
Posted on October 14, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Frontier AI labs attribute model escapes to misalignment, but cybersecurity experts attribute them to long-neglected containment failures. Labs reject external security advice, prioritizing AI safety over proven practices. CISOs must demand vendor accountability and enforce baseline security controls. By Cynthia Brumfield.
Tags security-and-privacy software-engineering data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd
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Intel accelerates open infrastructure for the agentic AI era
Posted on October 12, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At the Open Compute Project Global Summit, Intel unveiled new Xeon rack designs and the GPU D-series, formerly Crescent Island, positioning open, heterogeneous infrastructure as the foundation for scaling agentic AI workloads. By intc.com.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering
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Meta Muse boosts AMD as AI agents shift more work to CPUs
Posted on October 10, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Personal AI agents like Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots are shifting AI workloads from pure inference to persistent, multi-step operations, repositioning CPUs alongside GPUs as critical infrastructure components. By ODSC Team.
Tags software-engineering backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure
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Google accused of illegally clearing forest for data center projects in Finland
Posted on October 6, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length short
Google faces allegations of clearing over 300 hectares of forest in Finland for new data centers without completing required environmental assessments, raising questions about regulatory compliance and ecological impact amid the AI infrastructure buildout. By Victor Tangermann.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy software-engineering
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Fife castle vs. AI data centre: A practitioner's dilemma
Posted on October 5, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length short
A 1,000-year-old Scottish castle faces demolition for a £5 billion hyperscale data centre. This draft examines the engineering trade-offs, heritage constraints, and operational realities for practitioners facing similar siting decisions. By Alasdair Ferguson.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Experimental Bicep testing framework automates Azure IaC validation
Posted on October 2, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length short
A new experimental framework enables automated, in-memory validation of Azure Bicep templates within CI/CD pipelines, closing a critical gap in Infrastructure as Code testing. A practical proof of concept showing how to use the experimental Bicep testing framework with Pester to validate Azure Monitor log alert resources and automate assertions in CI/CD pipelines. By Stanislav Zhelyazkov.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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DevOps vs DevSecOps: What is the difference and why does it matter?
Posted on September 30, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length short
The article begins by noting that both DevOps and DevSecOps aim to accelerate and stabilize software delivery, but they diverge in how security is handled. DevOps establishes a culture of shared responsibility between developers and operations, employing CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, containers/Kubernetes, and monitoring to achieve speed with stability. DevSecOps builds on this foundation by treating security as an integral, continuous activity rather than a discrete gate at the end of the lifecycle. By Atul Sharma.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy software-engineering
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A coding agent on every desk: Running Qwen on Bazzite
Posted on September 29, 2026, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Author demonstrates how a self-hosted stack using Qwen3-Coder-Next, llama.cpp, and Tailscale offers a viable, cost-controlled alternative to cloud-based coding agents. By Brad Westness.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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Viability of local models for coding
Posted on September 27, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length short
Birgitta Böckeler's recent evaluation of local models for agentic coding reveals that while hardware constraints remain the primary bottleneck, specific configurations like Qwen3.6 35B MoE offer a viable, albeit messy, alternative to cloud-based assistants. By Birgitta Böckeler.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure