Both the single-stack architecture and the best-of-breed approaches can limit you. Open source and building in the capability for change are key.
Someone once said that Python’s data science training wheels would increasingly lead to the R language. Boy, was he wrong.
Few of the Supreme Court Justices seemed to understand what an API is or does, but their decision was a victory shout for software developers.
Commodity services that would allow workloads to run across multiple clouds don’t exist. But that hasn’t stopped the multi-clouders from trying.
For Artillery’s creator, the key to the popularity of the open source load testing tool is a focus on the needs of both developers and operations.
According to Graham Neray, CEO of Oso, authorisation will be the next layer of software to be abstracted and made less onerous for developers.
We need one platform to ‘process, store, secure, and analyse data in real-time, across all the relevant data sets,’ according to MongoDB’s CTO.
Decades into what should have been PostgreSQL’s dotage, developers keep reimagining what it can be.
It’s a mistake to believe that running open source in the cloud will avoid vendor lock-in. But open source offers freedom and independence.
Cloud computing was like rocket fuel for software developers. Scientists and engineers are the next in line.
Like so many winning projects, Weaveworks’ Cortex is the result of a long and winding chain of open source inspiration and innovation.
Many open source software companies embraced the open core model to increase revenues. Yugabyte found greater rewards leaving open core behind.
In the beginning, no one expected to get RHEL for free. The end of CentOS as a free drop-in replacement is no cause for outrage.
The open source process by which we find and fix bugs is also the right way to tackle software security. The OpenSSF offers us a chance to coordinate our efforts.
A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety.
