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Dana Crane

How to Make Python Dependencies Manageable

Cross-package dependencies are a nightmare. Every Readme says “install packages X, Y and Z” but they rarely mention the versions…

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by Its ability to climb a tree, it will live…

Open source licensing should be easier to deal with now that open source has become the de facto way we…

The purpose and intent of DevSecOps is to create the mindset within the enterprise that “everyone is responsible for security.”…

Prior to January 2019, customers paid Oracle for a Java Standard Edition (SE) license plus annual support, and updates were…

ActiveState knows from our 2018 Developer Survey that one of the hardest things an enterprise can do is to adopt…

What is Machine Learning (ML)? Pragmatically most can agree that it’s about getting computers to learn over time in an…

For all that TensorFlow is the current darling of the Machine Learning (ML) crowd, it’s just a graphing library that…

In recent years security has taken a back seat to time-to-market. We’ve moved from a waterfall to an agile software…

You hear “shift left” tossed around in software development circles these days. It’s like the secret passphrase you need to…

The world runs on software, and as any developer knows, software runs on open source. In fact, as much as…

Automation is a key design principle for DevOps teams. To speed up throughput in the software development life cycle (SDLC)…