DevOps and Open Technologies

Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform
Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the ...

Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office ...

Apache Druid’s Role in Modern Data Analytics
From Twitter and Netflix to Salesforce and Confluent, modern analytics applications are being built by developers across the world’s leading digital businesses to create digital tools that serve real-time analytics to hundreds ...

Building Higher-Quality Software With Open Source CD
Business is accelerating, and experience– for customers, partners and employees–is everything. This means nearly all applications need to be enhanced with new features, security updates and bug fixes on ever-shorter cycles. But ...

GitHub Previews Free CI/CD Migration Tool Due in 2023
At its GitHub Universe event, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates to its cloud service, including a forthcoming set of migration tools. The tools will automate migrations from legacy continuous integration/continuous ...

VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service
VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the ...

Snowflake Makes Case for Building and Deploying Apps on Platform
During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security ...

Cisco Adds Open Source Tool to Validate Serverless Functions
Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies ...

Developer’s Guide to Fuzz Testing
Fuzz testing continues to grow in popularity among developers within the open source community. Google’s open source security (OSS) team recently reported finding more than 40,000 bugs in 650 open source projects ...

Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these ...

Introduction to SPIFFE/SPIRE
For a long time, people have been logging into the apps they use via passwords or password managers. And many open standards and identity providers on the market continue to evolve how ...

OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow ...