Netlify Leverages GraphQL to Simplify Access to Backend Services
Netlify this week added a Netlify Graph tool to its portfolio that makes backend services available to developers via a single click. The tool aims to simplify DevOps teams’ access to those services when building their applications. Netlify Graph is based on the GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (APIs) and enables developers to […]
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […]
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Cloudify Integrates DevOps Automation Platform With Terraform
Cloudify this week announced a free user interface (UI) module that extends its infrastructure provisioning platform and enables DevOps professionals to integrate unlimited Terraform modules. Nati Shalom, Cloudify CTO, said Terraform UI provides a familiar construct for DevOps teams using the open source DevOps automation platform to provision infrastructure-as-code (IaC). The module enables DevOps professionals […]
How to Automate PKI for DevOps With Open Source Tools
Historically, DevOps and security have been diametrically opposed practices. DevOps wants to move fast and break things, or so they say, but security policies tend to slow things down. However, it has become clear that this school of thought has evolved, as both practices have something to learn from the other. Organizations have embraced a […]
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […]
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
In this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO.
How Stream Processing Goes Beyond Real-Time
How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller’s 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the average human reaction time, which one online test clocks at 273 milliseconds. Nowadays, customer-facing applications need to respond in as close to real-time […]
Codenotary Launches Cloud Service to Generate SBOMs
Codenotary has launched a Codenotary Cloud platform that can automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it easier to discover what components have been included in an application. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said that capability can also play a key role in identifying which components in an application might contain, for example, […]
WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps
WhiteSource has added the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to the list of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms its open source vulnerability scanning tools natively supports. Susan St. Clair, director of product management for WhiteSource, said while developers are always encouraged to scan for vulnerabilities, it’s more effective if organizations implement scanning by default every time […]
Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, because while hardware diversity is wonderful for price and innovation, it can lead to spiraling software complexity on the back end. So many […]
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]
Linux Foundation Survey Sees Rise in SBOM Use
A global survey of 412 organizations published today by the Linux Foundation found nearly half of respondents (47%) producing or consuming software bills of material (SBOMs), and more than three-quarters said they expected to produce or consume them in 2022. SBOMs have become a bigger area of focus in the wake of a series of […]
Embedded Connectivity Solves the Right (and Left) Problem
In Steven Bellovin’s book, “Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year’s Hackers,” (2015) he wrote: “Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly, something is wrong. The root of the problem is two-fold: We’re protecting (and spending money on protecting) the wrong things, and we’re hurting productivity in the […]
Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead
In this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia.
Harness CD Platform Now Available via Source-Available License
Harness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Harness, said the goal is to make CD as accessible to developers and DevOps teams as their current CI platform. Harness […]
How Are API Management and Service Mesh Different?
The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they inevitably require some form of service management architecture. There are primarily two major design options for implementing this: An API management system or […]
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […]
GitLab Revamps Observability Strategy After Acquiring Opstrace
GitLab plans to make observability a more integrated element of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform after acquiring Opstrace. Opstrace’s open source project exposes a horizontally scalable application programming interface (API) created by Cortex for Prometheus, an open source monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It then […]
Intel Expands Scope of OneAPI Toolkit Initiative
Intel has made available a 2022 edition of its oneAPI toolkit through which it makes processor extensions accessible to DevOps teams. James Reinders, chief evangelist for Intel software products, said the goal is to make it simpler for DevOps teams to expose extensions to any company’s processors in the runtimes developers use. At its core, […]
Theranos’s Holmes VC Reverb | 5G C-Band Marches On | Mozilla Jumps Shark
In this week’s The Long View: The conviction of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leads to greater scrutiny of startups, higher-frequency 5G NR is creeping towards reality, and Mozilla gets criticized for promoting climate-harming scams.
Open Source Observability Comes of Age in 2022
Observability is growing in importance to meet envisioned business objectives. Despite the benefits to performance data, organizations have faced challenges in realizing the full potential of observability based on implementation, distributed software tools, and other technological hurdles. But with new innovation, the era of true observability is upon us. Innovative changes The open-source observability landscape, […]