2024—Year of the Linux Desktop? ChromeOS Reflects its Inner Penguin ¦ GNOME Rethink
In 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.
Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.
Using Generative AI for Issue Remediation and Software Reliability
Generative AI offers SRE teams a way to automate and streamline error investigation and remediation, making it more intelligent, focused and efficient.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
Looking for a great new DevOps job? Check out these available roles at SAP, Citigroup, J. Crew and more!
Syslogs in Linux: Understanding Facilities and Levels
Syslogs are an integral aspect of Linux systems, serving as a foundation for efficient monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis.
Splunk Goes Azure With Microsoft Partnership
Splunk announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build solutions natively on Azure. Mitch Ashley is live at the .conf event.
Splunk Adds Generative AI Tool and OpenTelemetry Collector
Splunk added an assistant that leverages generative AI capabilities to enable IT teams to use natural language to invoke the Splunk Processing Language (SPL).
The Cyber Resilience Act Threatens the Future of Open Source
The EU is set to vote on the CRA July 19, 2023. Sonatype’s Brian Fox believes it’s a threat to the future of open source development.
Adopting a Low-Code GraphQL Approach to Build a Core Data Platform
Our education platform has relied on an outdated monolithic legacy application for years. It’s an outdated system built of a single service layer on top of a database designed for use cases that have evolved over the last decade. But we’re using the wealth of data in the monolith as a foundation for our current […]
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
In 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.
JFrog Adds Curation Capability for Open Source Software Components
JFrog is adding a curation capability for open source software that will use metadata generated by binaries to identify malicious packages and software components with licensing issues.
Loft Labs Makes Tool for Creating Dev Environments Open Source
Loft Labs’ DevPod enables DevOps teams to programmatically create developer environments using a tool that runs entirely on a local client.
Threads: Twitter Killer or Ad-Infested Hellscape?
In 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 it scale?
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
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 hand, is a more mature, older approach that has become new again. Platform engineering, at its core, is the concept of productizing your […]
How Automation Enables Remote Work
In recent years, the world has witnessed a significant shift towards remote working, largely driven by global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This transformation has necessitated the adoption of new tools and strategies, with automation emerging as a key enabler of effective remote work. So, what does automation mean in this context? Well, it’s […]
Integral Makes Generative AI Code Review Tool Open Source
Integral this week launched an open source Robin AI project that leverages OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) platform to review code changes and provide constructive feedback.
Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.”
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
How Open Source Can Enhance Developer Experience
Developer experience (DX) is becoming more and more of a competitive advantage among developer-facing tools and platforms. A great developer experience that’s easy to follow and implement can truly help a software tool stand out from the crowd. Simultaneously, open source software is all the rage. In fact, a recent StackOverflow survey found open source […]
HashiCorp Releases Slew of Updates to Improve DevSecOps
At a HashiDays event this week, HashiCorp launched updates to its Terraform implementation and a software-as-a-service offering, dubbed HCP Vault Secrets, that promise to simplify infrastructure security and ensure that secrets are not leaked. In addition, HashiCorp has added a self-hosted edition of its remote access security tool, Boundary, that can now also record SSH […]
Grafana Labs Slashes Time to Create Observability Dashboards
At its GrafanaCON 2023 event today, Grafana Labs updated its core platform for visualizing data which makes it simpler to set up dashboards in minutes. The updates are part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of a tool that is now widely used by DevOps teams. Ryan McKinley, a distinguished engineer for Grafana Labs, […]
Cycode Leverages eBPF to Secure CI/CD Pipelines
Cycode today added a Cimon extension to its application security platform that uses extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to thwart cyberattacks against continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Alex Ilgayev, head of security research for Cycode, said Cimon uses eBPF to inspect network connections, running processes and file modifications within a pipeline to learn standard behaviors. […]