DevOps and Open Technologies
Spotify Adds More Plugins for Backstage Developer Portal
Mike Vizard | | Backstage, developer experience, developer productivity, DevOps workflows, platform engineering, spotifySpotify this week added additional plugins for its open source Backstage platform that is used to build developer portals. The new plugins make it simpler to address role-based access and access Insights, ...
AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project
At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove ...
Nixpkgs: How to Build Better, More Open Software
The world we know today depends in fundamental ways on open source software. As providers of this software, package managers serve their respective ecosystems from their centralized, opaque hubs in ways that ...
Grafana Labs Reins in Cost of Storing Observability Data
Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service. This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard ...
CDF Report Reveals Lack of DevOps Maturity
Mike Vizard | | CD Foundation, CDCon, CI/CD, continuous delivery, continuous integration, devops maturity, Linux FoundationA global survey of nearly 26,000 DevOps professionals published today by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) at the cdCon + GitOpsCon event found 84% of respondents are involved in some type of ...
GitHub Revamps Search Engine for Code Repository
GitHub today unveiled a new search engine it has developed to make it simpler and faster to browse and navigate the world’s largest code repository. A completely redesigned search interface now provides ...
FIDO/WebAuthn Passkeys is Inevitable: Get on the Train ¦ IBM CEO Hates WFH
Richi Jennings | | 2FA, Arvind Krishna, authentication, devsecops, FIDO, google, Hybrid Work environment, ibm, managing remote workers, MFA, multi-factor authentication, multifactor authentication, Passkeys, Remote work, The Long View, two factor, WebAuthn, WFH, work from home, working from homeIn this week’s #TheLongView: The Passkeys authentication standard gets a huge boost, and Arvind Krishna wants workers back in the office ...
Survey: Most Open Source Software Maintainers Want to Get Paid
A survey of 339 maintainers of open source software projects found 60% of them classified themselves as unpaid hobbyists versus only 13% who said they earn most or all of their income ...
Breaking Down Silos: Applying Open Source Practices in the Workplace
DevOps plays a prominent role in mainstream technology and companies’ ability to deliver results. While the definition of DevOps encompasses the complete range of characteristics it covers, in practice, current tech culture ...
Open Source Communities Need More Than Funding From Big Tech
In recent years, major players like Microsoft, Amazon and Google have increased their involvement in open source projects, providing both financial and technical support. More consistent contributions from big tech—whether in the ...
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, careers, DevOps careers, layoffs, linux, Linux 6.3, tech layoffs, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble ...
InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient
InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of ...
