DevOps and Open Technologies
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | Akamai, careers, COVID-19, Failure is the foundation of success—and the means by which it is achieved, Firefox, Gecko, Great Resignation, Linode, Mozilla, remote workers, The Long View, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office ...
Without a Universal Language, Business Systems are Doomed
Imagine a world without DevOps. Everything that could be automated isn’t. Any job you dream up isn’t possible and, instead, you have to dig 10 to 15 clicks deep into a friendly ...
Updating and Managing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), often embodied by open source Terraform, is an essential ingredient to cloud and cloud-native strategies. But without the ability to scale, secure and manage IaC, you very quickly experience drift ...
Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams' access to those ...
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization ...
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
Richi Jennings | | ageism, careers, cloud and mainframe, COVID-19, Devops for z/OS, Great Resignation, ibm, IBM Cloud, IBM Wazi, mainframe, mainframe security, remote working, The Long View, Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know, WFH, work from home, z/OSIn this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office ...
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI ...
How to Automate PKI for DevOps With Open Source Tools
Historically, DevOps and security have been diametrically opposed practices. DevOps wants to move fast and break things, or so they say, but security policies tend to slow things down. However, it has ...
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer ...
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
Richi Jennings | | ARM, cosmic rays, Fall seven times and stand up the eighth, Green data center, Information batteries, machine learning, muons, NVIDIA, reliability, SoftBank, The Long ViewIn this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO ...
How Stream Processing Goes Beyond Real-Time
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller's 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the ...
Codenotary Launches Cloud Service to Generate SBOMs
Codenotary has launched a Codenotary Cloud platform that can automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it easier to discover what components have been included in an application. Moshe ...
