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What Is a Zero-Trust Architecture and How Does It Compare to Traditional Network Designs

What the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Means to You

What Can We Learn From the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack?

Using Sinatra to Mock Shopify API Calls in Rails Test Suites

Introduction Designing a good test suite is critical to the development of a reliable application, but it involves constant decisions about how closely to repli…

Shifting Left of Bang to Improve Your DevOps Security

In the early 2000s, the US Marine Corps' Combat Hunter training program introduced, among many other concepts, the ‘left of bang’ idea as a way to improve situa…

NextLink Labs Joins GitLab Partner Program

PRESS RELEASE Pittsburgh DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Custom Software Consultancy Aligns with GitLab to Enhance Services and Existing Offering. PITTSBURGH, PA, Ma…

A Django Upgrade Guide for Major and Minor Releases

The Django project has major updates every eight months and minor updates as needed. It's a good idea to keep your project up to date with the latest version or…

Why Companies of All Sizes Should Consider Automated Software Testing

Picture this: It’s Thursday afternoon and you just got an email from your manager of development letting you know the team has completed the new features you’ve…

Our RuboCop Configuration for Successful Rails Projects

After over 8 years in development, the Ruby linting gem RuboCop has finally released version 1.0 and with it a host of new features, style configurations, and m…

NextLink Labs Hires Veteran NSA Defense Professional to Lead Cybersecurity Practice

PRESS RELEASE Pittsburgh DevOps and Software Consultancy Bolsters Cybersecurity Practice, Adds Chief Information Security Officer.

Building a Kubernetes CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Helm

Everyone loves GitLab CI and Kubernetes.

React 16 vs. React 17

On October 20, 2020, Facebook released the newest version of React, React 17.