InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient
InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of how they are aggregated. The company is now making available a single-tenant instance of InfluxDB as a managed service alongside its already-existing multi-tenant […]
The Best (and Worst) Reasons to Adopt OpenTelemetry
It was a rainy day in Seattle at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in December 2018 when I first encountered the term ‘OpenTelemetry.’ At that time, I was an active member of a working group focused on developing W3C Trace Context, a standard now extensively employed for context propagation in distributed systems. It is likely […]
Report: Most IT Teams Can’t Fix Open Source Software Security
Lineaje, a provider of a platform for securing software supply chains, today published an analysis of 41,989 open source components embedded in the top 44 popular projects managed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). That analysis found more than a quarter (26%) of vulnerabilities are not patchable by the application development team that deployed them. […]
Endor Labs Taps ChatGPT to Identify Secure Open Source Software
Endor Labs has launched DroidGPT, an extension of its software for assessing risks in open source code. DroidGPT integrates the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform to make it simpler to discover the most secure version of an open source package. That capability makes it possible for developers to launch a natural language query from […]
GitKraken App Correlates Activity Across Jira Cloud and Git Repositories
GitKraken today made available a preview of a free application that aggregates activity across Atlassian’s Jira Cloud and any Git repository to provide a unified view across all the activities of a software development team. Adam Wride, general manager for planning solutions of GitKraken, said Team Insights for Jira (TIJ) will make it easier for […]
Can ChatGPT Fix Bugs? ‘Wolverine’ Dev Says YES
In this week’s #TheLongView: Instead of AI aids for programming, what about for debugging? The pseudonymous “BioBootloader” says he’s persuaded GPT-4 to make his code self heal.
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Creating a Growth Loop for Your Open Source Project
Every open source project hopes to achieve escape velocity, attracting enough users and contributors to become a successful, sustainable project that expands over time. But how do you attract developers and create the cycle of adoption that can lead to a thriving ecosystem? It obviously starts with building a great product that developers love to […]
npm is Scam-Spam Cesspool ¦ Google in Microsoft Antitrust Thrust
In this week’s #TheLongView: The npm registry suffers spam infestation, and Microsoft makes Google sad.
Dylibso Releases Tool for Tracking and Validating Wasm Modules
Dylibso today made generally available a system of record for tracking, investigating, searching and validating modules built using the WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format. Fresh from raising $6.6 million in additional funding, Dylibso CEO Steve Manuel said Modsurfer exposes the internal contents to enable developers to debug Wasm modules and ensure compatibility with runtime environments. […]
GraphQL Documentation Generators: How They Work and Why They Matter
GraphQL is an open source query language developed by Facebook that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs for fetching and manipulating data over the web. It allows clients to specify the shape and structure of the data they need and receive exactly that, no more and no less. Unlike […]
Oracle Makes Java 20 Platform Generally Available
At an Oracle DevLive Level Up event, Oracle today announced the availability of a Java 20 update that makes a range of innovations more accessible to application development teams. Georges Saab, senior vice president of development for the Java Platform and chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board for Oracle, said the latest version of the […]
Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope to Add Code Profiling Capability
Grafana Labs this week announced it acquired Pyroscope and plans to merge Pyroscope’s open source continuous profiling project with the open source continuous profiling database that Grafana Labs launched last year. Richard Hartmann, director of community at Grafana Labs, said after logs, metrics and traces, continuous profiling is now the fourth pillar of observability that […]
How Open Source Can Benefit AI Development
Enterprises are increasingly reliant upon open source software. A full 95% of IT leaders say open source tools are key to their enterprise infrastructure. Simultaneously, we’ve witnessed a sharp increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Most IT divisions want to take advantage of AI in some form, and open […]
Eclipse Foundation Touts Java SE Temurin Certification Momentum
The Eclipse Foundation revealed today the number of downloads for Java Standard Edition (SE)—dubbed Eclipse Temurin—certified using both a technology compatibility kit (TCK) and compatibility tests for evaluating associated runtimes reached 12.3 million in February. Tim Ellison, a project lead for creating compatibility tests for the Eclipse Foundation, said that level of activity suggests the […]
Low-Code Should be Worried About ChatGPT
Is ChatGPT the technology revolution that will save the world, or the Pandora’s Box that will eventually destroy it? How about neither? Putting these two extremes aside, a more rational concern is whether ChatGPT will steal your job, especially if you work in software development. Is this a fair concern? Conversations like this are nothing […]
Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
devopsy.kinsta.cloud is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […]
Tools and Strategies to Drive a Developer Culture of Collaboration
Agile methodologies such as DevSecOps have instilled collaborative habits in many development teams. But developers still struggle to work effectively with other stakeholders in the development process. And hybrid work environments have made collaboration that much more challenging. In fact, across departments, employees cite collaboration issues among the chief difficulties of hybrid work, recent research […]
Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs.
Sysdig Launches Wireshark Foundation
Sysdig this week announced there is now a Wireshark Foundation that will oversee future development of the widely used open source traffic protocol analyzer. Gerald Combs, who is now director of open source projects at Sysdig, along with Loris Degioanni, CTO of Sysdig, launched Wireshark in 2006 to enable teams to monitor network traffic, learn […]
Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI.
Fiberplane Adds Wasm Plug-in Framework for DevOps Notebook
Fiberplane today announced it is extending the reach of a real-time collaboration notebook designed for DevOps teams by making available tools for building plug-ins based on the WebAssembly (Wasm) framework. Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, Fiberplane CEO, said these plug-ins, dubbed providers, will make it much simpler for anyone to connect the Fiberplane notebook to other […]