Ben Lutkevich

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Ben is an award-winning writer and editor for the IT infrastructure group at Informa TechTarget, where he focuses on app development. He covers a wide range of topics, including networking, cybersecurity, IoT, DevOps, software testing, software development, AI and the future of work. He is also a Industry Expert to WhatIs.com. Ben studied English, journalism and IT at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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318 articles by Ben Lutkevich

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AI factories package Nvidia reference architecture, but who’s buying?
Oct. 22, 2026
Vendors build safeguards for autonomous software factories
Oct. 15, 2026
AI security projects deliver first fixes for vulnerable Java libraries
Oct. 12, 2026
Atlassian adds ‘multi-player’ agent collaboration, expands context
Oct. 7, 2026
Glasswing results put AI ‘vulnpocalypse’ to the test
Sept. 29, 2026
Groundcover acquisition automates Kubernetes provisioning
Sept. 24, 2026
Jev decision model touted as quicker, cheaper LLM alternative
Sept. 22, 2026
What repos are trending on GitHub?
Sept. 21, 2026
Harness makes its case for governing autonomous AI SDLC
Sept. 18, 2026
What is IT/OT convergence? Everything you need to know
Sept. 14, 2026
GitHub tests multi-model routing with HydraFusion
Sept. 9, 2026
Rival buyout aids customers after DevSecOps firm shutters
Aug. 27, 2026
5 reasons hardened images are seeing a resurgence
Aug. 14, 2026
What is an API (application programming interface)?
July 31, 2026
BellSoft takes on Dockerfile sprawl with Hardened Builder
July 21, 2026
Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
June 25, 2026
GitHub Copilot desktop released amid reliability and pricing concerns
June 17, 2026
Is AI replacing jobs? How 17 job types feel the effects
June 1, 2026
Who owns AI’s decisions? Reengineering AI governance
May 26, 2026
IBM Think: AI transformation aims to shrink process, lift people
May 13, 2026
SaaSpocalypse? Maybe not, but SaaS applications are changing
March 5, 2026
What is HR service delivery?
March 3, 2026
35 AI content generators to explore in 2026
Feb. 20, 2026
TikTok bans explained: What happened and the final outcome
Feb. 9, 2026
What is automated machine learning (AutoML)?
Dec. 27, 2025
30 of the best large language models in 2026
Dec. 3, 2025
Ethernet scale-up networking powers AI infrastructure
Nov. 12, 2025
What is natural language processing (NLP)?
Oct. 28, 2025
Sustainability and ESG glossary: 52 terms to know
Oct. 9, 2025
Short-form video alternatives to TikTok
Oct. 6, 2025
ESG vs. CSR vs. sustainability: What’s the difference?
Oct. 2, 2025
What is Capability Maturity Model (CMM)?
Sept. 3, 2025
What is network security? Definition and best practices
Aug. 28, 2025
What is the Mitre ATT&CK framework?
Aug. 7, 2025
Artificial intelligence glossary: 60+ terms to know
Aug. 7, 2025
What is fiber to the home (FTTH)?
Aug. 4, 2025
What is sensor data? Examples of sensors and their uses
Aug. 4, 2025
Top 7 must-have IoT skills to boost your career
July 14, 2025
What is a natural user interface (NUI)?
July 10, 2025
What is NTFS and how does it work?
July 9, 2025
What is a CISO as a service (CISOaaS)?
July 9, 2025
What is the domain name system (DNS)?
July 8, 2025
AI lawsuits explained: Who’s getting sued?
July 7, 2025
What is mobile computing?
July 2, 2025
What is a SYN flood DoS attack?
June 23, 2025
What is VMware NSX? Definition, features and use cases
June 4, 2025
Risk maturity model: How it works and how to use one
June 2, 2025
What is risk mitigation?
May 30, 2025
IoT basics: A guide for beginners
May 28, 2025
What is field service management (FSM)?
May 28, 2025
What is a firewall and why do I need one?
May 19, 2025
What is systems thinking?
May 15, 2025
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Definition and summary
May 9, 2025
What is a change agent (agent of change)?
May 8, 2025
18 ways to improve developer productivity
May 7, 2025
The rubber duck method of debugging explained
May 2, 2025
What is the gig economy?
April 30, 2025
What is a data lake?
April 16, 2025
What is corporate governance?
April 14, 2025
What is outsourcing?
April 9, 2025
What is an executable file (EXE file)?
April 7, 2025
12 Web3 courses to try in 2025
March 31, 2025
What is a general ledger (GL)?
March 10, 2025
What is a network node?
March 7, 2025
What is production planning and why is it important?
March 5, 2025
What is cost management? Definition, steps and benefits
March 4, 2025
What is a DMZ in networking?
Feb. 27, 2025
12 AI conferences to attend in 2025
Feb. 25, 2025
What is network visibility?
Feb. 20, 2025
What is a botnet?
Feb. 18, 2025
What is a supercomputer?
Feb. 11, 2025
What is a honeypot? How it protects against cyberattacks
Feb. 11, 2025
What is a private cloud? Definition and examples
Jan. 31, 2025
What is GPT-3? Everything you need to know
Jan. 27, 2025
What is hacktivism?
Jan. 22, 2025
What is lazy loading?
Jan. 16, 2025
34 must-know Agile terms
Jan. 13, 2025
What is AutoGPT? What you need to know
Jan. 6, 2025
Foundation models explained: Everything you need to know
Jan. 6, 2025
What is generative design? Ultimate guide
Dec. 30, 2024
What is a bill of materials (BOM)?
Dec. 17, 2024
What is system software?
Dec. 10, 2024
What is obfuscation and how does it work?
Nov. 27, 2024
What is a cloud-native application?
Nov. 26, 2024
What is managed detection and response (MDR)?
Nov. 26, 2024
What is a framework?
Nov. 22, 2024
What is speech recognition?
Nov. 20, 2024
What is a whaling attack (whaling phishing)?
Nov. 18, 2024
What is a Waterfall model? Definition and guide
Nov. 15, 2024
What is firmware?
Nov. 12, 2024
What is Salesforce Work.com?
Oct. 11, 2024
What are AI hallucinations and why are they a problem?
Oct. 11, 2024
What is Android System WebView and should you uninstall it?
Oct. 2, 2024
What is access control?
Sept. 27, 2024
What is ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)?
Sept. 26, 2024
What is Microsoft SharePoint and its important features?
Sept. 24, 2024
What is a sales funnel? Everything you need to know
Sept. 23, 2024
What is business sustainability?
Sept. 16, 2024
What is a software license?
Sept. 12, 2024
What is asynchronous?
Sept. 10, 2024
What is multichannel marketing?
Sept. 6, 2024
What is a cloud architect and how do you become one?
Sept. 4, 2024
neuromorphic computing
Aug. 26, 2024
What is language modeling?
Aug. 26, 2024
What is an organizational goal?
Aug. 26, 2024
What is artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
Aug. 26, 2024
expert system
Aug. 26, 2024
AI winter
Aug. 26, 2024
Project planning: What it is and 5 steps to create a plan
Aug. 23, 2024
What is podcasting?
Aug. 23, 2024
What is AWS Glue?
Aug. 20, 2024
User mode vs. kernel mode: OSes explained
Aug. 16, 2024
What is an embedded system?
Aug. 13, 2024
What is a microcontroller (MCU)?
Aug. 12, 2024
An explanation of generative design
Aug. 5, 2024
Agile vs. Scrum: How to choose between them
Aug. 2, 2024
What is high availability (HA)? Definition and guide
July 29, 2024
What is machine vision?
July 29, 2024
What is a drone (UAV)?
July 26, 2024
What is malware? Prevention, detection and how attacks work
July 26, 2024
What is first call resolution (FCR)?
July 24, 2024
What is the law of diminishing returns?
July 23, 2024
What is an intrusion detection system (IDS)?
July 15, 2024
GitHub
July 9, 2024
An explanation of Hugging Face
July 8, 2024
An explanation of CLI, GUI and NUI
July 2, 2024
What is e-learning? Importance, benefits and use cases
June 26, 2024
digital signature
June 25, 2024
cache memory
June 25, 2024
relational database
June 21, 2024
self-driving car (autonomous car or driverless car)
June 20, 2024
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
June 13, 2024
green IT (green information technology)
June 12, 2024
database (DB)
May 28, 2024
impact mapping
May 23, 2024
unified communications (UC)
May 23, 2024
GPT-4
May 14, 2024
Patch Tuesday
May 10, 2024
data center
May 3, 2024
association rules
April 30, 2024
XaaS (anything as a service)
April 30, 2024
business analytics
April 25, 2024
project scope
April 16, 2024
data engineer
March 15, 2024
identity provider
March 11, 2024
Google App Engine
March 8, 2024
robocall
March 6, 2024
AI washing explained: Everything you need to know
Feb. 29, 2024
computer forensics (cyber forensics)
Feb. 27, 2024
Pros and cons of facial recognition
Feb. 22, 2024
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
Feb. 20, 2024
BERT language model
Feb. 15, 2024
18 companies on stock exchange innovating in AI
Feb. 15, 2024
password spraying
Feb. 12, 2024
A who’s who of cybercrime investigators
Feb. 9, 2024
Why authenticity in marketing is important
Feb. 2, 2024
14 tech job boards to know in 2024
Jan. 16, 2024
Custom GPTs: Examples and how to build
Jan. 10, 2024
identity theft
Jan. 2, 2024
globalization
Dec. 21, 2023
Who uses AI, and how are they using it?
Dec. 21, 2023
hybrid cloud security
Dec. 19, 2023
Meta Threads explained: Everything you need to know
Dec. 15, 2023
e-commerce
Dec. 13, 2023
Scrum master
Dec. 11, 2023
CEOs and social media: Best practices and examples explained
Dec. 5, 2023
Digital footprint management: Tools, laws and strategies
Nov. 15, 2023
dark web monitoring
Nov. 7, 2023
Mental health statistics and their impact on the workplace
Nov. 2, 2023
Nostalgia marketing explained: Everything you already know
Oct. 27, 2023
Plundervolt
Oct. 24, 2023
API economy
Oct. 17, 2023
network engineer
Oct. 11, 2023
compliance as a service (CaaS)
Oct. 4, 2023
Windows 11 vs. Windows 10: What are the differences?
Oct. 3, 2023
Bossware explained: Everything employees should know
Sept. 26, 2023
How to invest in ESG: Ethical investing explained
Sept. 19, 2023
Hugging Face
Sept. 13, 2023
How to scrape data from a website
Sept. 11, 2023
skills taxonomy
Aug. 23, 2023
net zero
Aug. 15, 2023
consumer privacy (customer privacy)
Aug. 8, 2023
hot plugging
July 26, 2023
Reddit pricing: API charge explained
July 11, 2023
Model collapse explained: How synthetic training data breaks AI
July 7, 2023
quality of service (QoS)
June 19, 2023
NOR flash memory
June 9, 2023
11 organizations that support LGBTQ+ workers in tech
June 8, 2023
agri-tech
June 3, 2023
super app
June 1, 2023
remote wipe
May 15, 2023
Why you need an AI ethics committee
May 8, 2023
AI alignment
May 3, 2023
Proximity bias explained: Everything you need to know
April 25, 2023
Google algorithms explained: Everything you need to know
April 20, 2023
11 computer networking conferences in 2023
April 18, 2023
Techno-nationalism explained: What you need to know
March 20, 2023
Testing as a Service (TaaS)
March 13, 2023
fuzz testing (fuzzing)
March 7, 2023
3 V’s (volume, velocity and variety)
March 3, 2023
Flipper Zero explained: What to know about the viral hacker tool
March 2, 2023
10 open source coding books to read in 2023
Feb. 28, 2023
laptop
Feb. 28, 2023
Salesforce Customer 360
Feb. 27, 2023
What to do after a layoff: Everything you need to know
Feb. 24, 2023
remote code execution (RCE)
Feb. 24, 2023
operating model
Feb. 22, 2023
perpetual software license
Feb. 21, 2023
8 best password managers of 2023
Feb. 21, 2023
digital asset management (DAM)
Feb. 21, 2023
digital footprint
Feb. 9, 2023
tokenization
Feb. 7, 2023
infinite loop (endless loop)
Feb. 7, 2023
audit program (audit plan)
Feb. 3, 2023
technical debt
Feb. 1, 2023
fail fast
Jan. 31, 2023
chief customer officer (CCO)
Jan. 25, 2023
backdoor (computing)
Jan. 24, 2023
cloud collaboration
Jan. 20, 2023
structured data
Jan. 4, 2023
AWS Educate (Amazon Web Services Educate)
Jan. 3, 2023
database replication
Dec. 29, 2022
CompTIA Project+
Dec. 29, 2022
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
Dec. 28, 2022
Kotlin
Dec. 28, 2022
cloud sourcing
Dec. 27, 2022
hotfix
Dec. 21, 2022
tvOS
Dec. 5, 2022
Evil Corp
Dec. 5, 2022
software toolchain
Nov. 23, 2022
ambient temperature
Nov. 22, 2022
enterprise asset management (EAM)
Nov. 21, 2022
zero client
Nov. 18, 2022
search engine
Nov. 10, 2022
Citrix Workspace app (Citrix Receiver)
Nov. 1, 2022
predictive text
Oct. 31, 2022
distribution channel
Oct. 28, 2022
6 reasons why diversity in STEM is important
Oct. 24, 2022
foreign key
Oct. 24, 2022
Wi-Fi Pineapple
Oct. 14, 2022
What is network-attached storage (NAS)? A complete guide
Sept. 30, 2022
Anaplan
Sept. 26, 2022
raised floor
Aug. 29, 2022
transactional leadership
Aug. 25, 2022
parser
July 7, 2022
CONFIG.SYS
June 30, 2022
resource allocation
June 30, 2022
distributed applications (distributed apps)
June 28, 2022
chief transformation officer (CTO)
June 27, 2022
VBScript
June 23, 2022
information technology (IT) director
June 22, 2022
SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method)
June 17, 2022
directory traversal
June 15, 2022
implementation
June 1, 2022
knowledge engineering
May 12, 2022
Google Compute Engine
May 11, 2022
real-time application (RTA)
May 9, 2022
LDAP injection
May 3, 2022
SharePoint Online
April 29, 2022
neuromarketing
April 12, 2022
business metric
March 28, 2022
chief human resources officer (CHRO)
March 22, 2022
bot
March 9, 2022
software documentation
Feb. 25, 2022
operational data store (ODS)
Feb. 23, 2022
social listening (social media listening)
Feb. 7, 2022
access control list (ACL)
Feb. 3, 2022
Ethereum
Jan. 24, 2022
physical to virtual (P2V)
Jan. 21, 2022
content aggregator
Jan. 13, 2022
instant messaging
Jan. 11, 2022
timestamp
Dec. 30, 2021
buzz marketing
Dec. 29, 2021
smart card
Dec. 29, 2021
IT systems management
Dec. 28, 2021
bug
Dec. 17, 2021
embedded operating system
Dec. 13, 2021
Google Cloud operations (formerly Stackdriver)
Dec. 9, 2021
Lean software development
Dec. 6, 2021
runtime
Dec. 2, 2021
carbon offset
Dec. 2, 2021
Gantt chart
Nov. 24, 2021
dynamic link library (DLL)
Nov. 19, 2021
Perl
Nov. 16, 2021
OLTP (online transaction processing)
Nov. 11, 2021
cross-site scripting (XSS)
Nov. 5, 2021
Scrum
Oct. 28, 2021
script kiddie
Oct. 21, 2021
cryptographic nonce
Oct. 8, 2021
edge virtualization
Oct. 7, 2021
cache
Oct. 4, 2021
IP spoofing
Oct. 1, 2021
coopetition (co-opetition)
Sept. 23, 2021
circuit switching
Sept. 23, 2021
frame relay
Sept. 22, 2021
What is an edge router?
Sept. 22, 2021
security policy
Sept. 17, 2021
intranet
Sept. 17, 2021
vCIO (virtual CIO)
Aug. 24, 2021
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
July 30, 2021
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
July 2, 2021
end-to-end encryption (E2EE)
June 25, 2021
race condition
June 16, 2021
reverse-engineering
June 10, 2021
Top 8 must-have data analyst skills for 2021
June 9, 2021
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack
June 3, 2021
supply chain
June 2, 2021
chaos engineering
June 1, 2021
CCNA certification
May 24, 2021
computer cracker
April 23, 2021
How to build a honeypot to increase network security
March 31, 2021
register (processor register, CPU register)
Dec. 15, 2020
Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)
Nov. 11, 2020
BIOS (basic input/output system)
Nov. 3, 2020
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification
Oct. 23, 2020
conversion rate optimization
June 30, 2020
curiosity artificial intelligence (curiosity AI)
June 15, 2020
resource contention
March 25, 2020

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