Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
New Relic Adds Visualization Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic announced today it has added a visualization tool, dubbed New Relic Explorer, to make it simpler for IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues that adversely affect application performance. Buddy Brewer, global vice president and field CTO for the Americas, New Relic, said the goal is to make it simpler for […]
The Benefits of Open Source Technologies
Over the last 20 years, we have seen the proliferation of open source software and technologies become part of commercial offerings, either as part of the technology stack that powers the product or part of the product itself. Although these two use cases are largely different, both have come to showcase just how useful open […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
Open Mainframe Virtual Summit: Adding Value to the Mainframe
While many predicted mainframes would eventually become obsolete, they continue to be prevalent in the corporate world. Mainframes are still in high demand, and the mainframe market is likely to grow over the next few years as business and IT leaders validate its enduring role in their hybrid strategies. Mainframes are rapidly evolving to meet […]
Open Source and the Mainframe with Rocket Software
Open source enables developers to quickly create and deploy containers and business services across public and private infrastructures. Open source tools allow DevOps teams to harness the power of the mainframe. In this TechStrong TV interview, Tim Willging, chief architect and strategist, and Peter Fandel, mainframe open source evangelist at Rocket Software, join Mitch Ashley […]
HAProxy Updates Data Plane API to Simplify Service Discovery
HAProxy has updated the open source HAProxy Data Plane application programing interface (API) to include service discovery capabilities alongside native support for the Consul service mesh being developed by HashiCorp. Version 2.2 of the HAProxy Data Plane API also adds support for file handling, SSL certificates, map files and configuration files for its Stream Processing […]
Red Hat Expands RHEL Subscription Program for Developers
Red Hat is extending its developer program to make it simpler for both individual developers and small teams to access a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system subscription. These programs are launched in the wake of Red Hat’s decision to no longer invest in an open source CentOS Linux distribution project. Many developers […]
The Use of Open Source in Mainframe Environments
Open source is a critical element of IT computing. As companies modernize the mainframe and start to add components to mainframe applications that are off the mainframe, they should to be able to build, test and deploy the components of that application that go across the mainframe and different computing platforms in the same manner. […]
CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum
Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, 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 open source: the volunteer communities working to improve and update the code. And according to a Purdue University study, Linus’s Law does, in […]
Catchpoint Acquires Webpagetest.org Service
Catchpoint this week announced it has acquired Webpagetest.org as part of an effort to expand use of the open source web performance testing service. Led by Patrick Meenan, the Webpagetest service is already relied on by more than 1 million users per month to instantly run tests of websites and applications from various locations, which […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Google Roils Open Source Community
Google this week agitated the bulk of the open source community by launching the Open Usage Commons consortium to protect the trademarks of open source projects, starting with the Istio, Angular and Gerrit projects it launched. Launched in collaboration with SADA Systems and some independent contributors, the stated goal of the Open Usage Commons is […]
How to Minimize Latency and Its Impact on UX
Latency can have an enormous impact on user experience. Here’s what you need to know to mitigate latency before it impacts your customer experience Businesses have been digitizing for decades, but recent events have accelerated the process beyond all expectations. Customers are now using more digital services than ever, and their switching costs are often […]
CircleCI Extends Core CI/CD Platform
CircleCI today in partnership with Plandek launched an analytics plugin dubbed Buildtrakr for its namesake continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Buildtrakr integrates with CircleCI and Git to synthesize commit and build performance data, with critical metrics being surfaced via a dashboard. In addition, CircleCI has revamped its user interface and reconfigured a new […]
Eclipse Foundation Moving to Brussels
The Eclipse Foundation announced today it will begin to transition its headquarters from Ottawa to Brussels as part of an effort to advance international expansion. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said with so many open source organizations based in North America, there is a clear need for an open source organization to […]
Open Source Vulnerabilities Were Up 50% in 2019 — How Will It Impact Software Development in 2020?
Open source vulnerabilities have been on the rise in recent years, but 2019 was truly one for the record books with a spike of nearly 50% over the previous year. According to the recently released State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities report by the WhiteSource research team, the number of vulnerabilities jumped from 4,100 in […]
Survey Sees Open Source Adoption, Quality Gains
A survey of 959 IT leaders published this week by Red Hat finds increased reliance on and adoption of open source software is now being driven by perceived higher quality as much as it is cost concerns. The survey finds higher quality of software (33%) was the top reason they chose open source, followed by […]
The Risks and Potential Impacts Associated with Open Source
Open source software (OSS) is built by communities of developers who contribute their knowledge and time to OSS projects they find appealing. That code can then be used by individuals, communities and organizations in their software products—the only obligation they have is to play under the rules of the license with which the OSS project […]
Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code
What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court’s rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and enterprise developer alike. Disclaimer: I am a technologist, not a lawyer. I have done some research, and talked to lawyers, but all that […]
WhiteSource Acquires Renovate to Automate Dependency Updates
WhiteSource has acquired Renovate, a provider of an open source automated dependency update platform that the company plans to make available for free. Rhys Arkins, co-founder of Renovate who is now director of product for WhiteSource, said that as software projects become more complicated, there’s an increased need for a mechanism to identify and track […]