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Dev Centric Culture – Breaking Down The Walls

We have been doing Continuous Delivery and DevOps at Wix for several years now and as part of that, I have been training my team at the...

A first look inside Google’s futuristic quantum lab

In May, Google launched the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with hardware from the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave and...

Samsung announces the Galaxy Round with a curved display

Samsung has taken the wrapper off its rumored smartphone with a curved OLED display. The Galaxy Round, which will launch on SK Telecom in...

Most Developers Are Middle-Aged Married Folks

Usually when we think of “brogrammers,” we picture Silicon Valley hipsters that may have graduated from college, but can’t leave the frat...

Adobe deals with data breach affecting 2.9m customers

Adobe has been hit with a massive cyber attack, where hackers obtained customer IDs, passwords and encrypted credit card information of...

Android adware vulnerabilities are so BAD, researchers won’t ID it

A popular mobile ad library used by multiple Android apps poses a severe malware threat, researchers at infosec firm FireEye have warned....

Building Engineering Culture Based On Quality To Drive Innovation

When I joined Wix in 2010 my job was to rebuild the back-end engineering team. The previous team that took the company to where it was...

FTC publishes list of questions to ask "patent trolls"

The FTC has voted 4-0 to start an investigation of so-called “patent trolls.” The first step is to solicit public comment on a long...

Samsung: Note 3 Reginal Lock Applies Only For Device Activation

Reports that Samsung has crippled its new Galaxy Note 3 by adding region-locking, making buyers of unlocked units attempting to use it in...

$199, 4.2'' computer is Intel's first Raspberry Pi competitor

With the Raspberry Pi, Arduino Due, and BeagleBone, the world is full of cheap, tiny computers that can be used by creative developers in...

We Have Completely Lost Our Privacy On The Web

Few years ago, before the social networks explosion everybody knew that it is important to keep your identity hidden and not to reveal...

Russian rewrote credit card application, got approved

Dmitry Argarkov rewrote a credit card application sent to him by Tinkoff Credit Systems. The bank signed off on it without reading the...

Continuous Delivery - Part 8 - Deploying To Production

It is about time we talk about the actual continuous delivery process works, application lifecycle and how the code reaches production...

Continuous Delivery - Part 7 - Cultural Change

In order for continuous delivery to work the organization has to go a cultural change and switch to Dev-Centric Culture. Continuous...

Continuous Delivery - Part 6 - Backward & Forward Compatibility

One very important mind set developers will have to adopt and practice is backward and forward compatibility. Most production system do...

Continuous Delivery - Part 4 - A/B Testing

From Wikipedia: In web development and marketing, as well as in more traditional forms of advertising, A/B testing or split testing is an...

Continuous Delivery - Part 3 - Feature Toggles

One of the key elements in Continuous Delivery is the fact that you stop working with feature branches in your VCS repository; everybody...

The Road To Continuous Delivery - Part 2 – Visibility

A key point for a successful continuous delivery is to make the production matrix available to the developers. At the heart of continuous...

The Road To Continuous Delivery - Part 1

The following series of posts are coming from my experience as the head of back-end engineering at Wix.com. I will try to tell the story...

Using RSA encryption with Java

With the increase awareness to security the demand for securing data is rising. Fortunately Java provides pretty good tools that can help...