Tag: open source

WhiteSource Acquires Renovate to Automate Dependency Updates

Mike Vizard | November 13, 2019 | acquisition, code dependency, dependency update platform, devops, open source, Renovate, WhiteSource

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 ...

Using Open Source for Better DevOps Outcomes

Tanner Gibson | November 6, 2019 | devops, devops tools, intellectual property, open source, open source community, open source tools

Many insurers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems and systems implementations. Very few insurers, however, spend much time thinking about the ...

Survey Surfaces Uneven Approaches to DevSecOps

Mike Vizard | November 4, 2019 | devops toolchain, devsecops, open source, software development life cycle, survey, vulnerability scanning, ZeroNorth

A ZeroNorth survey shows implementing DevSecOps is rife with questions for many organizations, with no clear answers There’s general agreement that digital business transformation initiatives are driving an overall acceleration in the ...

Report: More Salesforce Customers Adopting DevOps

Mike Vizard | November 1, 2019 | devops, open source, Salesforce, Salesforce Lightning, survey

A survey of 201 executives who work in organizations that have adopted the Salesforce Lightning platform finds a surprising number are employing DevOps practices to customize Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Conducted by ...

DevOps Chat: From 0 to 1,000 Deploys Per Month with Redbox

Mitchell Ashley | October 29, 2019 | kubernetes, open source, Redbox, software delivery, Spinnaker, Spinnaker Summit 2019

Many organizations want to implement the latest DevOps/SRE practices, but many struggle with transforming the existing processes over to new streamlined processes. How does an organization transform from zero automated deploys to ...

DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Accelerates Open Source Innovation Pace

Mike Vizard | October 16, 2019 | devops, open source, open source vs. proprietary, source code

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 ...

DevOps Chat: Phoenix OSS Framework with DockYard

Mitchell Ashley | October 11, 2019 | DockYard, Erlang, open source, Phoenix LiveView, Phoenix Phrenzy, stateful applications, stateful computing

Stateless application architecture is the current de facto approach, right? Not necessarily. Stateful applications communicating over TCP sockets can and are successfully built even in today’s age of cloud-native applications. Our guest ...

DevOps Chat: Holistic Kubernetes and Cloud-Native App Security, With StackRox

Mitchell Ashley | October 10, 2019 | cloud-native apps, containers, kubernetes, open source, security, StackRox

More than ever, application security is a top priority. Beyond secure coding practices, a holistic app security strategy addresses the full application and infrastructure stack. This includes containers, microservices, orchestration, infrastructure software ...

Kong Employs Machine Learning to Extend Services Control

Mike Vizard | October 2, 2019 | cloud-native, Kong, machine learning, monolithic, networking, open source

At the Kong Summit 2019 conference, Kong today announced it has acquired Insomnia, an open source testing tool for application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, it has added support for REST, Kafka ...

DevOps Chat: Red Hat Developer Experience in the IBM Era

Mitchell Ashley | September 27, 2019 | ibm, open source, open source tools, red hat, Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux is a staple of most enterprise IT organizations' software diets. Developers and IT leaders all over the world took notice when IBM acquired Red Hat. Will IBM Red Hat ...