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Google Focuses on Enterprise Cloud With Mandiant Acquisition

Dan Kirsch | March 10, 2022 | acquisition, cloud, DevOps Enterprise, google, Google Cloud Platform, Mandiant

Thomas Kurian became the CEO of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a modest mandate: Turn Google Cloud into an enterprise cloud platform behemoth. Easy, right? By 2019 “Google” was already a verb ...

CircleCI Acquires Ponicode to Gain AI Testing Tool

Mike Vizard | March 9, 2022 | CI/CD, circleCI, continuous delivery, continuous integration, Ponicode

CircleCI today revealed it has acquired Ponicode to gain control over a unit testing platform infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that makes it simpler to review application code prior to uploading it ...

DevOps and Containers

Don Macvittie | March 9, 2022 | container management, containers, docker, Init-script

“Works on my machine!” We’ve all had that co-worker. I have had one at pretty much every company I've worked for. At several jobs, it devolved into a running joke. There is ...

TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’

Richi Jennings | March 8, 2022 | Apple, ByteDance, Good words shall gain you honor but good deeds shall gain you friends, non-practicing entities, Patent assertion entities, Patent trolls, Patents, Russia, The Long View, TikTok, Ukraine

In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300 ...

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Pulumi Adds Business Critical Edition to Infrastructure Management Platform

Mike Vizard | March 3, 2022 | IaC, infrastructure provisioning, Pulumi, Software Supply Chain

Pulumi today added a Business Critical edition of its Cloud Engineering Platform that provides large enterprises with additional security and compliance features, premium 24x7 support, training, professional services and a self-hosting option ...

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Why the Built World Needs Standard APIs

Bill Doerrfeld | March 3, 2022 | analytics, built world, IoT, smart home, system architecture

Lately, new ESG initiatives have come front-and-center as companies seek to contextualize and limit their business's impact on the environment. This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to ...

Tabnine, GitLab Build Custom Apps Faster With AI

Mike Vizard | March 2, 2022 | ai, CI/CD, code repository, custom software development, gitlab, Tabnine

Tabnine today revealed it has integrated its code completion tool with the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Tabnine's platform employs artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate application development. Brandon Jung, vice president ...

Linux Foundation Lists Top Open Source Libraries

Mike Vizard | March 2, 2022 | application security, open source, OpenSSF, supply chain, The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation today published a report that provides access to eight lists of the top 500 open source libraries being used by organizations as part of an ongoing effort to help ...

Ukraine Asks for DNS Censorship | Ukraine Snapchat Staff Danger | #BoycottKaspersky?

Richi Jennings | March 2, 2022 | DNS, ICANN, If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality, Kaspersky Lab, Looksery, Russia, Sanctions, Snap, Snapchat, The Long View, Ukraine

In this week’s The Long View: Censoring the Russian internet, Snap fears for hundreds of Ukrainian employees, and Eugene Kaspersky acts like a **** ...