DevOps and Open Technologies
Lineaje Unfurls Platform for Creating and Managing SBOMs
Lineaje this week unfurled a platform for creating and managing the software bills of materials (SBOMs) that are increasingly mandated by enterprise IT organizations and government agencies. Fresh from raising $7 million ...
flox Unveils More Accessible Instance of Nix Framework
This week, flox launched a more opinionated implementation of the open source Nix framework that programmatically automates package management and system configuration. Fresh from raising an additional $16.5 million in funding, flox ...
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, AWS, Bloom Energy, CO2 emissions, data center, data centers, datacenter, gpl, Green data center, LGPL, open source licensing, The Long View, voice.aiIn this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...
Cisco Bets on OpenTelemetry to Advance Observability
Cisco today announced a technology preview of a Cisco Full-Stack Observability Platform based on instances of open source OpenTelemetry agent software being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to collect ...
OpenAI Hires 1,000 Low Wage Coders to Retrain Copilot ¦ Netflix Blocks Password Sharing
Richi Jennings | | ChatGPT, Codex, github, GitHub Copilot, gitops, microsoft, Netflix, open source, OpenAI, password policies, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: ChatGPT darling OpenAI wants people to write code in English, and the unintended consequences of blocking shared accounts ...
Three Trends That Will Transform DevOps in 2023
The onset of COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD, giving long-delayed projects the budget and staffing they needed to build momentum. After almost three years of ...
Microsoft Outage Outrage: Was it BGP or DNS?
Richi Jennings | | azure, BGP, DNS, gitops, it-as-code, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, MSFT, Office 365, outage, The Long ViewAll of Microsoft’s cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond’s IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running unreliably—despite Microsoft saying it’s fixed ...
What DevOps Needs to Know About ChatGPT
OpenAI's generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) bring powerful AI language models to every IT community. Within the past few months, ChatGPT has become an incredibly popular derivative of GPT. GPT also has the ...
A DevSecOps Process for Node.js Projects
Node.js is an open source development platform for running JavaScript code on the server side. Node is useful for developing applications that require a persistent browser-server connection and is often used for ...
8-Bit Floating Point for AI/ML? | Amazon and Microsoft Shed Tech Jobs
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, deep learning, floating point, FP8, inference, layoffs, microsoft, ml, recession, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: New ideas bring low-power ML inference, and more big-tech jobs are going ...
Optimizing the Developer Experience in 2023
2022 was a banner year for innovation, but not only in the traditional “churning out new features” way. Many organizations started thinking about their processes and how to amplify them to maximize ...
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
Richi Jennings | | cryptography, database, devsecops, Don’t settle for what life gives you—make life better and build something, encryption, end to end, FAA, federal agencies, legacy, mainframe, NOTAM, privacy, risk, security, technical debt, The Long View, ThreemaIn this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad ...
