DevOps and Open Technologies
Linux Foundation Embraces Lightweight API Gateway
The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source application programming interface (API) gateway known as KrakenD has become the latest project it will oversee. Rechristened the Lura Project, the lightweight stateless ...
ServiceNow Acquires Lightstep to Gain Observability Platform
ServiceNow today announced it has acquired Lightstep as part of an effort to add an observability platform to its IT operations portfolio. Terms of the deal, expected to close this quarter, were ...
Trend Micro Allies With Snyk to Advance DevSecOps
Trend Micro and Snyk unveiled today a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform the two companies have jointly developed to identify vulnerabilities in open source code. The Trend Micro Cloud One - Open Source Security ...
Developer’s Guide to Open Source Spring Cleaning
Spring is here, and after a year filled with record-setting digital transformation and its associated vulnerabilities, now is the right time to give the open source components in your codebase a refresh ...
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for ...
China’s Open Source Activity Surged in 2020
Activity among China-based open source project contributors and creators surged in 2020, as Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent and other leading Chinese tech companies are playing an increasingly important role in the open source ...
5 Steps to an Open Source DevOps Strategy
Open source technology thrives during times of mass disruption, and this pandemic has been no different. Across the board, companies are accelerating their digital transformation and DevOps strategies, looking to open source ...
Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of ...
Are Developers Responsible for Open Source Governance?
There are lots of factors in the open source software world converging to make it a big year for “shift left” in software development. Heightened security concerns, an increasing need for software ...
WhiteSource Acquires Diffend to Secure Open Source Supply Chains
WhiteSource this week announced it has acquired Diffend as part of an expended effort to discover malware that has been deliberately injected into open source software by a contributor acting in bad ...
Pulumi Moves to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning
Pulumi announced today it is expanding the scope of its automation ambitions to make it easier to securely provision cloud infrastructure-as-code. Joe Duffy, Pulumi CEO, said the Cloud Engineering Platform enables DevOps ...
Is Open Source More Secure Than Closed Source?
There’s no getting around the fact that security is one of the most essential factors in day-to-day operations for most software developers. From proprietary code to sensitive customer data and everything in ...

