Double Shot #1846
- Git 2.13 has been released - Probably worth upgrading if only to get the SHA-1 collision detection built-in.
- CockroachDB 1.0 is Production-Ready - A milestone release for this "cloud-native SQL database."
- Infographic: The 2017 'Martech 5000' Marketing Technology landscape - That's basically 5000 companies devoted to collecting data on your and shoving online ads into your browser. Depressing.
- Visual Studio for Mac - My past has caught up with me.
- Kolide - "Treat your infrastructure like a queryable database". If you're running hundreds of thousands of servers, this looks like a very useful tool.
- PG MatViews for better performance in Rails - Using PostgreSQL materialized views to boost performance (at the cost of some other tradeoffs, like needing to refresh the views and not having absolutely-current data).
- Rails 5.0.3 and 5.1.1 have been released! - Another round of bugfixes, nothing security-critical.
- 2017-05-11 Security Update Release - For PostgreSQL, including a bunch of other bug fixes. One of the vulnerabilities is a password disclosure, so pay attention if you use foreign servers.
- Patching is Hard - Another installment in "This is why we can't have nice things."
- The Tools We Use To Stay Afloat - Best bit of advice for small teams: "In general, we try to use as few tools and services as possible."
- IoT Hall-of-Shame - Archive of known busted things on the Internet of Things. This is not going to end well.