Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers.
The IaC Weight on DevOps’ Shoulders
It’s often challenging to adopt modern DevOps practices around infrastructure-as-code (IaC). Here’s how to make the journey smoother.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
Meta Mayhem: Hybrid Work FAIL ¦ Yet More Layoffs
In this week’s #TheLongView: Meta’s enforced hybrid work plan is failing badly, and Meta makes more layoffs.
Raspberry Pi 5: Faster, Better, Stronger — Spendier
In an extra #TheLongView: Everyone’s favorite single-board ARM computer, the Raspberry Pi, has a new generation coming soon.
Oracle Bill is 5x Client’s Budget ¦ Toyota Out of Space
In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
In this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but …
Google Calls Microsoft Azure Anti-Competitive ¦ Gen-Z Can’t Email
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google complains to the FTC about Microsoft market abuses, and new graduates don’t know how to “office.”
92% of Devs Use AI, Survey Says ¦ Intel One Mono Font
In this week’s #TheLongView: GitHub touts unbelievable AI stats, and Intel’s beautiful open source typeface.
Microsoft’s 9th Outage in 2023 ¦ RISE of RISC-V ¦ Meta Ends WFH
In this week’s #TheLongView: Redmond SaaS keeps failing, RISC-V is RISEing, and Meta is enforcing hybrid work.
Quali Update Strengthens Infrastructure Security
Quali today announced enhancements to its Torque automated infrastructure platform to add support for security scans and Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). OPA enables organizations to implement cybersecurity policies as code. The challenge many organizations have encountered is that not many developers have […]
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
In this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol.
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
Fiberplane Notebook Tool Fosters DevOps Collaboration
Fiberplane today announced it is making available a public beta of a namesake real-time collaboration notebook specifically designed for DevOps teams that need to quickly debug IT infrastructure. Fiberplane CEO Micha Hernandez van Leuffen said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the structure of DevOps teams has permanently changed now that […]
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
Where Should I Store My IaC?
The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the best practices for storing IaC? Should IaC code be stored with the application and feature code? Should it be stored separately in its […]
How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points
Developers spend much of their day digging into their systems’ guts, allocating storage to an application, connecting the security system to the user interface and tracking which version of the application is where in the development cycle, among other tasks. That’s why a new category of software has emerged, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), that promises to automate […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]