AWS’ Serverless Application Repository compounds its early advantage

Amazon Web Services gave its customers an easier way to get started with serverless applications today. The cloud provider launched its Serverless Application Repository out of beta to give customers an app store for trying out different applications built using Lambda, its event-driven computing service. AWS made a major splash when it announced Lambda at its re:Invent […]

Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository

Enlarge (credit: Cedar101) The official repository for the widely used Python programming language has been tainted with modified code packages, a computer security authority in Slovakia warned. The authority also said the packages have been downloaded by unwitting developers who incorporated them into software over the past three months. Multiple code packages were uploaded to […]

Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository

Enlarge (credit: Git) Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows. Traditionally, Microsoft’s software has used a version control system called Source Depot. This is proprietary and internal to Microsoft; it’s believed to be a customized […]