Che: A Revolutionary IDE for the Mainframe
Tools such as the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plug-ins, have served mainframe application developers well over the years and, for those comfortable with them, will continue to do so. However, changes in the broader world of development are creating the conditions for a revolution in mainframe tooling. […]
SaltStack Extends IT Automation Framework
SaltStack today added three open source modules to its portfolio that make it easier to automate the management of IT at scale. Heist is a plugin that allows organizations to create agents that will dissolve after a specific amount of time. Umbra is a plugin that gathers data streams to make it easier for machine […]
Perfect Sense Open Sources Gyro to Automate Cloud Provisioning
Perfect Sense has launched an open source project dubbed Gyro that provides an alternative approach to automating cloud infrastructure provisioning and management. Gyro was developed as an alternative to other open source projects such as Terraform and Pulumi, said CTO Jeremy Collins. It is designed from the ground up around a programming language that allows […]
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
DataStax to Support Multiple Distributions of Cassandra
DataStax today announced it will provide support services for any distribution of the open source Cassandra database via a subscription offering dubbed DataStax Luna. The company also announced it has made available two additional free tools in the form of DataStax Apache Kafka Connector for integrating Cassandra with the open source real-time streaming engine, and […]
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 […]
CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project
The open source Jaeger distributed tracing platform has officially graduated into the top tier of projects being stewarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Designed to be employed within any DevOps environment, Jaeger is a tool for monitoring transactions across complex distributed computing environments. It consists of a backend for trace collection and analysis […]
How Open Source Software Is Defining the Future of Mobile Connectivity
Mobile operators face intense pressure to deliver more data, faster connectivity, better coverage and more functionality to end users who are (unfortunately) more demanding than ever. Increasingly, these end users will not be people as we know them but rather Internet of Things (IoT) devices. IDC has projected that by 2025, 60% of the world’s […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Accelerates Open Source Innovation Pace
In the span of a few short years, open source software has evolved from being a means to create the free equivalent of an existing commercial platform to now becoming the primary means of driving innovation across the IT industry. That rate of innovation has increased dramatically in the last few years. However, much of […]
Red Hat Streamlines Operating System Update Cycle
Red Hat is looking to make it easier for DevOps teams to absorb leading-edge innovations as they are slipstreamed into a new distribution of CentOS. CentOS is a distribution of Linux based on a fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The team that oversees CentOS operates independently of Red Hat. That team in collaboration […]
Continuous Delivery Foundation Momentum Picks Up
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) this week revealed that it now includes 33 member organizations, including now JPM Chase, eBay, Dell Boomi, Cycloid, White Source, the Association of DevOps Professionals and the DevOps Institute. Founded by CapitalOne, CircleCI, Cloudbees, Google, Huawei, IBM, jFrog, Netflix and Salesforce in March the CDF is committed to promoting the […]
‘DevOps in the Multicloud World’ Virtual Summit Puts IBM Z in the Spotlight
Got mainframes on the mind? Wonder how you can unlock the value of the platform for mission critical workloads? Trying to figure out where IBM Z fits in an increasingly cloud native IT environment? Those questions and others will be discussed in an upcoming virtual summit that explores the role of IBM Z —within the […]
Eclipse Foundation Delivers on Jakarta EE Promise
The Eclipse Foundation today announced the general availability of Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) 8 Full Platform and Web Profile specifications and associated technology compatibility kits (TCKs). Announced during the JakartaOne Livestream virtual conference, Jakarta EE 8 is the follow-on open source platform to JavaEE that provides a foundation for building cloud-native applications using a familiar […]
Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps
Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
The Challenge of Securing Open Source Applications
As enterprises have increased their reliance on applications over the years, there has been a significant rise in the use of reusable software components such as third-party libraries and open source code. This makes perfect sense, as this development method makes it possible to add value to applications and other software offerings quickly and easily. […]
The Linux Foundation Breathes New Life into Osquery
Facebook’s useful but neglected DevOps tool Osquery has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to The Linux Foundation. Anyone who has been tasked with monitoring the security of server instances in a data center or cloud knows how laborious and time-consuming it can be. Osquery, a project started by Facebook, aims to lessen this […]
State of the Software Supply Chain: Secure Coding Takes Spotlight
After almost a year of research that involved studying 36,000 open source software projects, 12,000 enterprise development teams and 3.7 million open source releases, we at Sonatype are excited to share the “2019 State of the Software Supply Chain” report. This year, we worked with research partners Gene Kim, founder of IT Revolution, and Dr. […]
5 Ways DevSecOps Can Manage Software Supply Chains
The unbridled use of open source components within the software supply chain is on a major uptick, according to new research. Even as this surge in open source dependencies fuels faster innovation, the study shows that it comes with high cybersecurity costs, as the number of breaches related to these components is similarly on the […]
Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK
Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […]
Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem
Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said in the last few years Adobe has increased its reliance on open source code to deliver offerings such as Adobe Experience Manager, a […]
Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date
Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers. The reason is simple: In time- and resource-constrained companies trying to stay technologically competitive, it doesn’t make sense anymore to try to reinvent a wheel that’s already been battle-tested. However, having made the […]