The IT industry has a large carbon footprint, and IT professionals have a responsibility to tackle climate change. Going to the cloud and using serverless are effective ways to reduce resource usage and carbon footprint. However, these routes are not always feasible, and making applications more eff.. read more  

The article highlights the incident management process inGovTech Edu, which has helped the organization to ensure system reliability and prevent incidents from happening again. - The incident management process is essential for maintaining system reliability and preventing incidents from happening a.. read more  

The article discusses the limitations of localized mitigation mechanisms in dealing with complex failures that involve interactions between services in a microservice system. It identifies four types of microservice failures: - cascading failure, - retry storm, - death spiral, - metastable failure.T.. read more  

The benefits of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) are many, but it's important to recognize that IAC has its limitations and challenges. Here are some key takeaways: - Reproducibility: Infrastructure code is reproducible, but it has a shelf-life and requires constant updating to avoid problems. - Self-do.. read more  

Solana Labs is launching a ChatGPT plugin that will allow users to search the Solana blockchain using OpenAI's conversational chatbot technology. - The plugin will enable users to perform various tasks through the ChatGPT user interface, including checking wallet balances, transferring tokens, and p.. read more  

Gary Gensler, the Chair of the United States Securities Regulator, has claimed that many crypto platforms are violating securities laws. - Gensler described crypto assets as "investment contracts" and called on platforms that offer such products to register with the SEC to protect American investors.. read more  

PayPal is set to roll out a feature that allows nearly a million Venmo customers in the US to transfer cryptocurrencies to their wallets. - PayPal is extending its crypto transfer service to its more than 60 million Venmo customers in the US. - Venmo users will be able to transfer supported tokens t.. read more  

Polygon has launcheda new bridge for its zkEVM solution, offering users security, UX, and functionality, and a fast finality of transactions. - The bridge is governed entirely by smart contracts on Ethereum and Polygon zkEVM. - The bridge comes with UX improvements such as a progress bar, transactio.. read more  

A sophisticated and novel hacking operation has siphoned off crypto-assets from over 100 compromised addresses, with unknown origins, attack vectors, and victims. The compromised wallets range in age and activity, and the theft activity matching the patterns began as early as August 2022. The stole.. read more  

The Certora Equivalence Checker is a new tool developed to help address the smart contract security problem in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) world. It allows developers to compare different versions of the same mathematical formula written in low-level (Yul or assembly), high-level (Solidity), an.. read more