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Backstage began life as an internal project at Spotify and was released as an open-source project in 2020. Its original intention was to be a central location where the company had a registry of all software they had in production but has since evolved into a much more advanced platform, including a plugins system that helps users extend the platform. This plugin system is a significant reason for Backstages success and drove adoption within the company.

If you have PostgreSQL or MySQL databases running behind NAT in multiple environments, this release of Teleport is worth downloading and playing with.

Integration with your source code managers and issuing pull requests to fix issues has been part of Snyk’s success in helping our customers fix application dependencies for several years. Now, we want to help you address container security in a similar way. We’re happy to share that we are extending Snyk Container by helping you automatically fix issues in your Dockerfile to keep an up-to-date base image at all times.

Have you shifted left, yet? That’s the big trend, isn’t it? It’s meant to signal a movement of security responsibilities, moving from central IT teams over to developers, but that’s trickier than it sounds. Simply taking tools that are intended for use by security experts and making them run earlier in the supply chain does not provide developers with meaningful information.

The Spring MVC framework is a well-known Java framework to build interactive web applications. It implements the Model-View-Controller architecture pattern to separate the different aspects of your application. Separating the different logic elements like representation logic, input logic, and business logic is generally considered good architectural practice.