Kong Donates Kuma Service Mesh to the CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it has accepted the open source Kuma service mesh developed by Kong as a sandbox level project. At the same time, Kong announced an update to the service mesh for monolithic and microservices-based applications that makes it easier to deploy multi-tenant instances of Kuma across multiple types […]
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 […]
Eclipse Foundation Touts Jakarta Progress
The Eclipse Foundation today published the results of survey of 2,180 software developers that finds over half of respondents (55%) have adopted Java/Jakarta EE 8. In addition, the Eclipse Foundation is making available an update to the Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) specification that will move away from the javax namespace to embrace jakarta namespaces for […]
CNCF Elevates SPIFFE Spec to Secure App Services
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) specification and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE) have become incubation-level hosted projects. Andrew Harding, SPIRE maintainer and a principal software engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said the elevation of a […]
DataStax Brings AIOps to Cassandra Database Management
DataStax today unveiled a private beta release of artificial intelligence tool dubbed Vector that provides advice on how to optimize clusters running the open source Cassandra wide column store database. Vector analyzes individual nodes and then compares behavior to other nodes in the cluster to identify opportunities to improve deployments. Ed Anuff, chief product officer […]
The Linux Foundation Adds Free Jenkins Training Course
The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), today launched a free introductory course to the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform as part of what it plans will become a series of free and paid online DevOps tools courses. Clyde Seepersad, general manager of training at the Linux Foundation, […]
Hasura Launches Beta of GraphQL-Based Remote Joins Tool
Hasura today announced the public beta of Remote Joins, which makes use of an open source GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (API) to join disparate data sources residing in different repositories. Company CEO Tanmai Gopal said Remote Joins extends a GraphQL engine the company has developed around a project that is now hosted […]
Camunda Extends Reach of BPM Platform
Camunda, a provider of a business process management (BPM) platform written in Java, this week added support for an open application programming interface (API) to make it easier to integrate its namesake software with applications written in Javascript/Node.js, Python and C#. Company CTO Daniel Mayer said at a time when many organizations are investing in […]
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 […]
Divide Narrows Between Open Source Community, Standards Bodies
The path through which open source projects become industry standard is about to become a lot smoother. The Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an arm of The Linux Foundation, this week announced it has been approved to become an official submitter to the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO and IEC […]
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 […]
Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs
Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […]
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 […]
Why DevOps are Keen on Open Source Logging
With the advent of DevOps, we are now moving toward more collaborative workflow models, where the integration of development and operations teams make it easier to quickly move development projects into production, and with fewer roadblocks. However, within DevOps, many of our activities are not as clear-cut as they were in previous siloed methods. While […]
Google Names CloudBees App Dev Partner of the Year
Google this week named CloudBees its 2019 Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Application Development at a time when the rate at which application workloads are heading into the cloud is expected to accelerate. Beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudBees also makes available a software-as-a-service […]
GitLab Shifts 18 Features Into Core Open Source Platform
GitLab this week announced it has moved 18 features that previously organizations had to pay for into the core open source version of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Scott Williamson, executive vice president of product management for GitLab, said as a general rule the company makes available DevOps tools for teams across the […]
Logz.io Launches COVID-19 Dashboard
Logz.io this week launched a Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project that seeks to provide software developers and data scientists a reliable source of data to assess the global impact of the pandemic. Dotan Horovits, product evangelist for Logz.io, said the goal is to help organizations make sense of often conflicting data by making it accessible using […]
Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Theia Promise
The Eclipse Foundation has made available Theia 1.0, an open source alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio (VS) Code tool for editing code. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said Theia will provide IT teams with a no-cost option to editing code that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud alongside the Eclipse […]
EP 3: Open Source and DevOps
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of CDF and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source?
Tasktop Delivers Viz Value Stream Management App
Tasktop this week announced the general availability of an application to manage projects based on a flow framework that captures events as they occur across the software development toolchain. Company CEO Mik Kersten said Tasktop Viz is the first substantiation of the flow framework in software that provides a value stream management application to enable […]
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 […]
Atlassian Extends Road Mapping in Jira
Atlassian has updated its Jira project management software for managing software development initiatives to add more capabilities to road mapping tools that teams use to share plans and update progress. Matt Ryall, head of product for Jira Software at Atlassian, said the road mapping tools first provided in Jira a year ago are now being […]
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 […]