DevOps and Open Technologies
Open Source: What IT Pros Wish the CIO Knew
Using DataOps and open source together, organizations can reimagine the way they deliver data and software-driven projects Real-time data is the fuel that powers today’s most critical systems and applications, as well ...
CD Foundation Embraces Ortelius to Manage Microservices Deployments
The Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation has added the open source Ortelius platform for managing the deployment of microservices as an incubation level project. Originally developed by DeployHub, Ortelius was created to provide ...
Linux Foundation Exam for Certified IT Associates Available
A while back I wrote about an upcoming certification people receive from passing the Linux Foundation Exam. Now that it is available, I’m circling back as promised with more information. For those ...
Gravitational Becomes Teleport to Streamline Access Management
Gravitational today announced it has changed its name to Teleport and launched the Teleport Unified Access Plane, an open source security gateway that comes in the form of a single binary that ...
Dynatrace Adds to Observability Capabilities
Dynatrace today announced it has extended its observability capabilities via the launch of its PurePath 4 platform that adds support for the open source OpenTelemetry framework and W3C Trace Context specification for ...
Open Source Software and the Tragedy of the Commons
With many eyes looking at code, “All bugs become shallow,” as software developer and author Eric Raymond called Linus’s Law in action. This is one of the reasons behind the popularity of ...
Logz.io Embraces Jaeger for Distributed Tracing
Logz.io announced at its online ScaleUp! 2020 conference announced today it has added support for open source Jaeger distributed tracing software to its observability platform based on a curated instance of open ...
The Value of OpenTelemetry in Observability
As infrastructure becomes more complex, the quest for better observability continues. With increased containerization, third-party applications and generally increased network complexity, it becomes difficult for organizations to track issues of stability and ...
Survey Sees Faster Shift to Open Source Software
A survey of 638 IT professionals finds the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is, like other slumps, driving increased adoption of open source software. Conducted by Tidelift, a provider ...
OpenSSF Makes Free Security Training Available
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), an arm of the Linux Foundation, is providing free security training for developers building and employing open source software starting later this week as part of ...
Azul Adds OpenJDK Migration Services
Azul today announced today it will provide migration services for IT organizations looking to transition from the proprietary Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) developer platform to the Zulu edition of an open ...
OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry is an open source project to provide a de facto standard trace API and a metric and log agent to end vendor lock-in It’s no surprise that understanding the internal health ...

