Heterogeneous Hardware Needs Universal Software
As hardware advances and diversifies, we’re entering what many see as a new golden age of computer architecture. However, the idea of an ever-expanding hardware landscape can be daunting for software developers, because while hardware diversity is wonderful for price and innovation, it can lead to spiraling software complexity on the back end. So many […]
1.65 Million Devices Enrolled – Techstrong TV
Fleet is an open-source device management platform Mike founded alongside Zach Wasserman, co-creator of OSquery. The company recently raised a $5M seed round. In this interview, we’ll learn more about what Fleet does, how they got 1.65M devices enrolled in less than a year, and why they believe open source is the future. The video […]
Embedded Connectivity Solves the Right (and Left) Problem
In Steven Bellovin’s book, “Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year’s Hackers,” (2015) he wrote: “Companies are spending a great deal on security, but we read of massive computer-related attacks. Clearly, something is wrong. The root of the problem is two-fold: We’re protecting (and spending money on protecting) the wrong things, and we’re hurting productivity in the […]
Harness CD Platform Now Available via Source-Available License
Harness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Harness, said the goal is to make CD as accessible to developers and DevOps teams as their current CI platform. Harness […]
White House Meeting Puts Spotlight on OSS Sustainability
A recent meeting between IT industry leaders and White House officials highlighted open source software sustainability concerns as high-profile breaches and zero-day attacks have many organizations reviewing their software supply chains. The White House published a statement describing, among other things, how participants had a “substantive and constructive” discussion on how to make a difference […]
Using Open Source to Secure Software Supply Chains
Recently, there’s been a lot of attention paid to software supply chain security. In particular, here’s a quote from the May 2021 presidential executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity: “The Federal government must … advance toward zero trust architecture; accelerate movement to secure cloud services, including … platform as a service (PaaS).” There are […]
NPMs Sabotaged as OSS Sustainability Crisis Continues
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […]
Open Source Observability Comes of Age in 2022
Observability is growing in importance to meet envisioned business objectives. Despite the benefits to performance data, organizations have faced challenges in realizing the full potential of observability based on implementation, distributed software tools, and other technological hurdles. But with new innovation, the era of true observability is upon us. Innovative changes The open-source observability landscape, […]
The Future of OpenTelemetry for Observability
The observability landscape is changing. Today’s digital transformation journey has highlighted the need for observability as organizations look to capture, analyze and correlate all data across every level of the application stack including logs, metrics, traces and events. With the rampant rise of data, collecting these signals is imperative to both business insights and system […]
New Relic: Observability Tops 2022 DevOps Agenda
If 2021 was the year when IT organizations became aware of the need for observability, then the coming year should see observability aspirations realized. A report published by observability platform provider New Relic postulates that there are no less than 11 factors converging in a way that will make observability an absolute requirement for organizations. […]
Best of 2021 – 11 Open Source DevOps Tools We Love For 2021
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the eighth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps isn’t just a cultural shift — it requires great tools to come to fruition. Below, we’ve pulled together a list of some of the […]
Best of 2021 – 7 Popular Open Source CI/CD Tools
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our series of the Best of 2021. DevOps is a software development strategy that incorporates agile practices for fast, efficient product creation and release. It focuses on integration of development and operations […]
Best of 2021 – Torvalds’ Bug Warning is a Lesson for Linux Users
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our series of the Best of 2021. Linux does, occasionally, raise security concerns. While many users see it as the most secure, robust and versatile operating system available — that’s this writer’s […]
Securing the Software Supply Chain with Behavioral Analysis
Lately, software supply chains find themselves in a very interesting and uncomfortable position—the industry spotlight—and not in a good way. While significant and costly breaches such as SolarWinds or Kaseya make front-page news, supply chain attack tactics (e.g. typosquatting or dependency confusion) that target package managers such as npm, PyPI or WinGet can poison downstream […]
CI/CD Is Still All About Open Source
One of the lessons I’ve learned in my years at the helm of DevOps.com is that the heart of DevOps is CI/CD. And at the heart of CI/CD is open source. While the names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the obsolete), these lessons are as true today as they ever were. CI/CD […]
WhiteSource Report Finds NPM Vulnerabilities Fixed Fast
WhiteSource today published a report that found most of the vulnerabilities that affect node package managers (NPMs), widely employed to deploy JavaScript applications, are addressed long before they are assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The report, based on an analysis of the vulnerabilities that WhiteSource tracks in […]
Logz.io Extends Open Source Observability Platform
Logz.io has enhanced its observability platform to include both unified dashboards and support for distributed tracing to monitor service performance enabled by the open source Jaeger agent software being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). At the same time, Logz.io is making available a preview of an anomaly detection capability […]
Nvidia/ARM Wavering | Google Outage Outrage | Backblaze IPO on Fire
In this week’s The Long View: Nvidia’s faltering attempt to buy Arm, Google’s load balancers go offline, and Backblaze’s newly-IPO’ed stock jumps 60%
What Developers Need to Know About Edge Computing
More and more companies are living “on the edge” as they move from “I’ll think about edge computing” to “I don’t think our business can optimally grow and compete without edge computing.” Developers will play a key role in helping organizations use the edge, but their effectiveness will depend on having edge-aligned processes, products and […]
Automated Refactoring with Moderne
Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich are co-founders of Moderne, a Seattle-based startup. Moderne received $4.7 million in seed funding in July 2021 to commercialize OpenRewrite, an open source automated refactoring tool for code (initially Java) that Schneider started while at Netflix. Moderne’s technology reduces the tedium and time it takes for software remediation; a big […]
Open Source is the Engine for Observability at Scale – Observability at Scale TV EP 2
As today’s organizations seek advanced monitoring and observability to ensure the performance of their microservices and cloud native systems, issues of cost, complexity and tool sprawl have emerged as pervasive challenges. Join our hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley along with panelists Dotan Horovits (Logz) and Constance Caramanolis (Splunk) as they dive into the challenges […]
DevSecOps Tech Radar Highlights Diverse Tooling Adoption
The DevSecOps Technology Radar showcases the opinions cloud-native groups have about DevSecOps tools. To review, The Technology Radar is a periodic report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a burgeoning host for new open source projects that are becoming pivotal underpinnings to cloud-native architecture at large. Just like previous radars, the DevSecOps Technology Radar […]
What 30 Years of Linux Taught the Software Industry
Linux has become the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing over the last 30 years. Reflecting on what made this possible and how its open source philosophy finally imposed itself in the industry can offer software vendors valuable lessons from this amazing success story. The web may not have reached full adulthood […]