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From CEO Alan Shimel: Futurum Group Acquires Techstrong Group

Alan Shimel | April 17, 2024 | company mergers, Techstrong Group, The Futurum Group

I am happy and proud to announce with Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group, an agreement under which Futurum has agreed to acquire Techstrong Group. The combination of these organizations will create ...

CDF Survey Surfaces DevOps Progress and Challenges

Mike Vizard | April 16, 2024 | CI/CD, Continuous Delivery Foundation, issue tracking, source control management

Most developers are using some form of DevOps practices, reports the CDF survey. Adopting STANDARD DevOps practices? Not so much ...

The Commonhaus Way to Manage Open Source Projects

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 15, 2024 | commonhous, open source, open source associations, project management

Commonhaus is taking a laissez-faire approach to open source group management ...

OpenTofu Denies Hashicorp’s Code-Stealing Accusations

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 11, 2024 | copyright, Hashicorp, infrastructure as code, intellectual property, Law, open source, opentofu, Terraform

The legal battle between the faux-open-source HashiCorp and the open source OpenTofu heats up ...

Google Adds GenAI Tool to Automate DevOps Workflows

Mike Vizard | April 10, 2024 | devops, Gemini Cloud Assist, google, IT leaders

Google this week added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool dubbed Gemini Cloud Assist to automate a wider range of tasks across the software development lifecycle, including troubleshooting applications running on the ...

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Rocket Software Makes Testing iSeries Apps More Secure

Mike Vizard | April 10, 2024 | application testing, devops, ibm, iSeries platforms, legacy systems, Rocket Software, waterfall approach

Rocket Software this week extended its DevOps platform for iSeries platforms from IBM to make it simpler to test applications in a way that ensures sensitive data isn’t inadvertently exposed to application ...

Securing Open Source Software, the Cyber Resilience Act Way

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 10, 2024 | Cyber Resilience Act, cybersecurity standards, Eclipse Foundation, open source, Open Standards, programming, secure development

The Eclipse Foundation is spearheading an effort to create a unified framework for secure software development ...

Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | April 9, 2024 | Hashicorp, IaC, Law, legal, open source, opentofu, Terraform

Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers ...

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Grafana Labs Makes Observability More Accessible

Mike Vizard | April 9, 2024 | application observability, automation, grafana, monitoring, Prometheus

The updates promise to make it easier to invoke the capabilities of a Grafana Cloud platform based on open source software ...

Modular Makes a Case for Mojo Programming Language, Based on Python

Mike Vizard | April 5, 2024 | continuous integration, cuda, modular, mojo, Python

Modular created Mojo to provide Python developers with a programming language that uses the same familiar syntax to build high-performance applications ...

Hasura Adds “Supergraph” to Platform for Managing APIs

Mike Vizard | April 2, 2024 | API, DDN, Hasura, SDK

Hasura, whose product helps compose GraphQL APIs backed by databases and services, today made available in beta an update to its platform. The company is adding a graph modeling framework that makes ...