An engineer begins her Monday, sitting down at her desk with a cup of coffee. She's feeling productive, inspired, and ready to write some good code. She opens her GitHub inbox to find 42 notifications on her projects, like this one:
⚠️ CRITICAL VULNERABILITY: Upgrade garbodep from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13
"What's garbodep? I don't even directly depend on that, why am I getting notified for this?" And
so, her day begins.
There is nothing more chaotic today than the current state of cybersecurity.
In my latest article in The New Stack, “How Web Assembly Can Mitigate the Software Supply Chain Crisis,” I discussed the relative ease with which today’s predominant method for building software allows for malware infection across all components of an application.
Until now, the method for building software relied on the aggregation of software components that often lack distinct security boundaries between them.
WebAssembly is poised to fundamentally transform the development of both browser and server-side development.
The virtualization of the CPU, OS, and the cloud with hypervisors, containers, and Kubernetes each marked epochs of technology that ushered in emerging trends in software architecture, design, development, operation, and life cycle management.
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