DevOps and Open Technologies
WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps
WhiteSource has added the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to the list of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms its open source vulnerability scanning tools natively supports. Susan St. Clair, director of product management ...
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
James Reinders | | hardware, open source, open systems, parallel programming, supercomputing, universal softwareAs hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, ...
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And ...
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they ...
Embedded Connectivity Solves the Right (and Left) Problem
In Steven Bellovin’s book, "Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year's Hackers," (2015) he wrote: "Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly, something is wrong ...
Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead
Richi Jennings | | adtech, ARM, facebook, FLoC, Google Topics, Meta, ml, ML infrastructure, NVIDIA, privacy, SoftBank, The Long View, the metaverseIn this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia ...
Harness CD Platform Now Available via Source-Available License
Mike Vizard | | CI/CD, continuous delivery, continuous integration, Harness, open source, source available licenseHarness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing ...
How Are API Management and Service Mesh Different?
The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they ...
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
Richi Jennings | | A weasel wishing Happy New Year to a chicken harbors no good intention, Apple, devops culture, devsecops, Firefox, Great Resignation, , Lock-in, Mozilla, organizational culture, remote working, The Long View, WFH, work from homeIn this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla ...
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by ...
GitLab Revamps Observability Strategy After Acquiring Opstrace
GitLab plans to make observability a more integrated element of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform after acquiring Opstrace. Opstrace's open source project exposes a horizontally scalable application programming interface (API) created ...
Intel Expands Scope of OneAPI Toolkit Initiative
Intel has made available a 2022 edition of its oneAPI toolkit through which it makes processor extensions accessible to DevOps teams. James Reinders, chief evangelist for Intel software products, said the goal ...
