Blog entry written by Dr. Munawar Hafiz, CEO of OpenRefactory Inc. This is a long and winding story with a set of lessons in the end. There is a TL;DR in the end for the restless, but the others are encouraged to follow along. OpenRefactory

**Image courtesy of Cyber Kendra) Open source libraries lay the foundations for modern applications. Polluting the libraries opens up opportunities to create security backdoors at a massive scale. There have been several recent incidents to pollute open source repositories. Here is a story from last

When I was a kid, I found it fun to create “art” using a Paint by Numbers kit. Maybe you also played with it as well. Paint by numbers was a way to take a person with minimal skill (that would be me) and have

Hi. My name is Charlie and I am an Engineer. I have been an Engineer all of my life. I have written thousands of lines of code in dozens of languages, some of which you have never heard of. I have worked with and managed

Sometimes simple errors may bubble up and produce something big. A classic example of this is rounding off with floor() or ceil() methods in an arithmetic operation too early. In that case the off-by-one error propagates and may lead to a significant deviation. While preparing

Ashish Kakran of Thomvest ventures writes about the emerging DevOps trends in a recent article published in the DevOps blog space.             https://devops.com/devops-trends-to-watch-in-2021/ Ashish identifies several emerging trends in DevOps practices. We, at OpenRefactory, follow the commentaries from the thought leaders