As a database consultant, one of the things I am most frequently asked about is dealing with database locking issues. Usually, the question is posed by someone who is experiencing a slowdown in their ...

Organizations traditionally have struggled to track vulnerabilities in public cloud platforms and services because of the lack of a common vulnerability enumeration (CVE) program like the one that ...

Google’s incredible size and scope has an alarming side effect: When the company makes coding mistakes, millions of people can lose their privacy. An internal database from the Mountain View tech ...

A misconfigured database has led to the disclosure of 191 million voter records. The database, discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, doesn’t seem to have an owner; it’s just sitting in the public – ...

Over the past couple of months I’ve written about the changing landscape of database systems as technology and procedures morph and change. It is undeniable that DevOps is increasing the speed of ...

Discord suffered what they classified as a 'massive outage' that prevented users from logging into the service or using voice chats. The outage started at 2:49 PM EST and was initially caused by an ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Accessibility Standards and Issues Database (also known as the A11y Database) is an AUL project that began in 2015. It is developed and maintained by Amelia Dickerson. The goal of the database is ...

A database migration gone awry caused the outage and poor availability that GitHub customers experienced this week. In a lengthy blog post today, GitHub’s Jesse Newland apologized for the outage and ...