Platform Engineering
2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
Richi Jennings | | Chrome, Chrome OS, cloud desktop, GNOME, google, Lacros, linux, The Long View, user acceptance testing, user experience, user interface, window managementIn this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager ideas ...
How Platform Engineering Bridges the IT and DevOps Divide
A key area where companies can eliminate expensive waste and increase time to value is the relationship and workflow between IT and developers. Enter platform engineering ...
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
Richi Jennings | | ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
Richi Jennings | | ActivityPub, Cinder, Elon Musk, fediverse, Instagram, JIT, Mark Zuckerberg, Mastodon, Meta, Meta Platforms, Python, The Long View, ThreadsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Meta launches its much-leaked Threads microblogging app. A spinoff from Instagram, it’s already reached 30 million signups at the time of writing. How is Meta’s DevOps team making ...
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
Richi Jennings | | CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, gpl, ibm, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but … ...
How Platform Engineering Protects Profit, People and our Planet
Platform engineering offers lots of tangible benefits for businesses, but sustainable platform engineering can be even better ...
How Can DevOps Evolve? Platform Engineering
Platform engineering bridges the existing gaps between software, hardware and infrastructure that come with adopting DevOps practices ...
Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept ...
How IT Services Can Embrace Platform Engineering
We are all familiar with DevOps as a newer approach to software development. The concept is designed to enable developers and IT operations teams to work together. Platform engineering, on the other ...
Cycloid Adds Templates to Simplify GitOps Workflows
Cycloid's Bootstrap Stacks capability provides DevOps teams with the ability to build Git templates to define cloud computing environments ...
Quali Adds Governance and Cloud Cost Control Tools to Automation Platform
Mike Vizard | | cloud management, infrastructure as code, infrastructure management, platform engineering, qualiQuali today revealed it added governance and cloud cost management tools to its Torque platform for automating IT infrastructure management. David Williams, senior vice president for market strategy at Quali, said the ...
Pulumi Embeds Terraform Conversion Tool in Platform
At its virtual PulumiUP event, Pulumi this week announced it embedded an ability to convert instances of Terraform into its infrastructure-as-code (IaC) platform via a simple command line interface (CLI) command. In ...
