Leading the way: 10 projects in the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024

Get ready for two days of open source magic at GitHub Universe 2024, where innovation meets inspiration at San Francisco’s iconic Fort Mason. On October 28-29, we’re transforming a dedicated area, the Open Source Zone, into a hotbed of groundbreaking ideas, live demos, and community connections featuring rising stars from…

Read More

The 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report: Visibility enhanced

Elastic Security Labs has released the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report, surfacing the most pressing threats, trends, and recommendations to help keep organizations safe for the upcoming year. Threat actors are finding success from the use of offensive security tools (OSTs), a misconfiguration of cloud environments, and a growing emphasis…

Read More

My #1 Writing Advice

My #1 writing advice, especially if you’re starting out: Don’t write about topics or in ways that are less interesting to you, because you believe it’s more interesting for others. That’s a terrible trade-off to make, and sets you up for failure in the long-run. Thanks for reading Maarten’s Newsletter!…

Read More

A PM’s guide to influence

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny, and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lenny and Friends Summit, happening October 24th | My recruiting service to hire your next product leader | Podcast…

Read More

Agile Primitives — Beyond Frameworks

TL;DR: Agile Primitives Are we losing sight of what truly matters in Agile? The future isn’t about rigidly adhering to or outright dismissing frameworks like Scrum or SAFe. Instead, it’s about returning to the fundamental principles — the Agile Primitives — that genuinely empower teams to adapt, innovate, and deliver…

Read More

Mini book: Improving Developer Experience with Platform Engineering

Platform engineering has become a hot topic over the last several years. The need to deliver software with speed, safety, and efficiency has driven the rise of platforms designed “as a product” with the internal customer, the developer. In this InfoQ emag, we bring together insights from platform builders, practitioners,…

Read More

Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration

2024 marks Cloudflare’s 14th birthday. Birthday Week each year is packed with major announcements and the release of innovative new offerings, all focused on giving back to our customers and the broader Internet community. Birthday Week has become a proud tradition at Cloudflare and our culture, to not just stay…

Read More

The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform

We’ve updated our Transparency Center with data from the first half of 2024 and invite you to explore the data and visualizations and download them for your own research. In the most recent period, you may notice a significant jump in projects affected by DMCA takedowns, with 1,041 notices processed…

Read More

Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI

When people imagine developers leveraging public code, they often think of developers using code that’s already been written and building upon it to create something new. It’s faster to build from something than to build from nothing, right? While this is transactionally true, there’s more to it than that. Central…

Read More

Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic

On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. Impacted phones showed “SOS” instead of the usual bar-based signal strength indicator, and customers complained of an inability to make or receive calls on their mobile devices. AS6167…

Read More

Expanding Cloudflare’s support for open source projects with Project Alexandria

At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. It’s more than just code, it’s the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and shared knowledge that drives the Internet forward. Open source is the foundation upon which the Internet thrives, allowing developers and creators from around the world to contribute to…

Read More

Revisiting INVEST 20+ Years Later

“We can’t pick up that User Story because it doesn’t follow INVEST.” If you work with User Stories, there’s a good chance you’ve heard someone say this during refinement. And I’ve got news for you if that’s how you use INVEST, then you’ve missed the point of the acronym entirely.…

Read More

How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: • Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments• Paragon—Ship every SaaS integration your customers want• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security — Benjamin Lauzier has been building and scaling marketplaces for almost 15 years. He was the VP of product and growth at Thumbtack,…

Read More