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• Luos 'plugs' microservices into IoT

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Sep 2022

Open source software for edge and embedded distributed systems Luos has added support for the popular ESP32 multipoint control unit (MCU) to its technology cadre. In working motion, ESP32 is said ...

• CircleCI rolls out joint offering for GitLab developers

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Sep 2022

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) platform company CircleCI used the summer slowdown period to come forward with support for GitLab SaaS developers. This means that ‘joint ...

• Production-ready SBOMs, Sonatype & Red Hat align for slicker software factories  

  Adrian Bridgwater 31 Aug 2022

With open source security always in the spotlight (and proprietary too for that matter) especially at the enterprise-level, software supply chain management company Sonatype has announced news ...

• Code-to-cloud: Codefresh democratises GitOps with Argo 

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Aug 2022

Codefresh is a Continuous Delivery (CD) platform for cloud-native apps. Built on an enterprise distribution of Argo, a declarative continuous delivery tool, Codefresh is trusted by companies like ...

• MariaDB goes geospatial, developer-first

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Aug 2022

The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved in the open source database space this month. August 2022 saw everybody’s favourite ...

• Self-service rising, Soda Cloud previews data quality checks

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Jul 2022

If there’s a term that we can already see listed as a top trend for 2022 by the time the Christmas end-of-year retrospective musings come out, it is self-service. Not quite the same as technology ...

• Cilium speeds sidecar-optioned cloud-native networking 

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jul 2022

The Cilium project has reached general availability of Cilium 1.12. Great news, they’re (the Cilium team) excited… and so are we, but what is Cilium? Cilium is widely regarded as a (if not the) ...

• The Matrix Interoperated: Element fuses growth in open source messaging protocol 

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Jul 2022

Matrix is an open network for decentralised communication. The brand has now surpassed sixty-million users worldwide after experiencing 71% growth in the last 12 months. All Matrix-based apps are ...

• Keptn cooks up, becomes CNCF Incubator

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Jul 2022

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project.  Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in ...

• Soda pops new sparkle into data engineering quality

  Adrian Bridgwater 12 Jul 2022

You know soda, it’s what the Americans call fizzy-pop, Coke/Pepsi (other colas are available) and all manner of carbonated soft drinks. No, not that soda, we mean Soda, the provider of data ...

• GitLab support engineering: innovating hidden multipliers for circular economy groupthink

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Jul 2022

This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider authored by Lee Matos in his role as senior support engineering manager at GitLab - an organisation known for its open source ...

• Databricks hoists mainsail on flagship open source projects 

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Jul 2022

Data and AI company Databricks has announced several contributions to popular data and AI open source projects including Delta Lake, MLflow and Apache Spark.  At the Data + AI Summit, the largest ...

• Coder creates multi-compute multi-cloud IDE

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Jun 2022

The question is not hard. Why did nobody ever start a software application development business for coders to work with code and just go ahead and call it Coder? The answer is even easier, someone ...

• Slippery freeze please, Snowflake expands native Python support

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Jun 2022

Self-styled ‘data cloud’ company Snowflake used its annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2022 to table new enhancements that improve programmability for data scientists, data engineers and ...

• MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #2 - A bigger world for Atlas

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Jun 2022

The Computer Weekly Developer Network & Open Source Insider blog team attended MongoDB World 2022 in New York City this June to file a series of show reports, keynote download sessions, ...