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Broadcom’s Software Strategy: Milk the Cash Cow, Exploit ‘Synergies’
The week began with rumors that Broadcom would acquire VMware and ended with the news that the deal is all but done. The VMware board, along with Michael Dell (who still owns ...
Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) ...
JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge
At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a ...
Go Language is Popular? | VMware Sells to Broadcom? | Unlimited PTO?
Richi Jennings | | Broadcom, Go, Go language, Golang, Great Resignation, I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it, mergers and acquisitions, The Long View, UPTO, vacation, vmwareIn this week’s The Long View: Golang goes from zero to hero, Broadcom buys VMware, and limitless vacation is still a Thing ...
JFrog Launches Blockchain Project to Secure Open Source Software
At its swampUP event, JFrog today launched Project Pyrsia, an open source project that uses a blockchain platform and Sigstore Cosign and Notary V2 cryptographic signature software to secure software packages. In ...
Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?
Dan Kirsch | | acquisition, application virtualization, Broadcom, Cloud Computing, semiconductors, software vendor, vmwareRumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market ...
Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day
A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the ...
Survey Surfaces Multi-Cloud Computing and Cost Challenges
A survey of 360 CIOs and IT leaders in the U.S. and the United Kingdom found that, as the number of cloud platforms an organization employs expands, the number of tools they ...
Datadog Adds Support for OpenTelemetry Protocol
Mike Vizard | | datadog, DevOps metrics, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2022, observability, open source, OpenTelemetryAt the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event, Datadog announced it made support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) generally available in the agent software it provides to instrument applications. Ilan Rabinovitch, senior ...
Continuous Delivery Foundation Adds Interoperability Project
Mike Vizard | | CI/CD, CI/CD pipelines, continuous delivery, Continuous Delivery Foundation, continuous integrationAt a CDEventscon event this week, the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) announced it is hosting a CDEvents project through which it hopes to create a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of ...
Splunk Survey Surfaces Gains in Observability
A global survey of 1,250 observability practitioners, managers and other experts published today by Splunk found that sophisticated observability practitioners are able to cut downtime costs by 90%. That figure is based ...
Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?
Richi Jennings | | ai, Amazon, Apple, devops salary, Elon Musk, fakers, machine learning, microsoft, recurring revenue, The Long View, twitterIn this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double ...
