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• MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #1 - developer productivity

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 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, ...

• DevFest for Ukraine, humanitarian Android software engineering

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Jun 2022

DevFest for Ukraine is a charitable (virtual only) tech conference that will bring together 20 speakers over two days, featuring live streams from London and Lviv.  It will address key topics for ...

• Sonatype offers software engineers control of InnerSource components

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Jun 2022

Sonatype is a software supply chain management company that has been gaining increasing traction in recent months. The company has now announced a capability focused on identifying and remediating ...

• GitLab 15 drops slops on DIY DevOps flops & muttonchops 

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 May 2022

Provider of The One DevOps Platform GitLab Inc has announced the launch of its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, bringing forward new DevOps ...

• What to expect from OpenInfra Summit 2022 Berlin

  Adrian Bridgwater 22 May 2022

Berlin, according to David Bowie, is the greatest cultural extravaganza one can imagine - it’s a city brimming with art, music, architecture, history and, of course, enlightenment. The Thin White ...

• OpenUK CEO: What open source really means today

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 May 2022

Listening to OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock speaking at Percona Live 2022, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team noted the following thoughts from her keynote… “If you were wondering what a nice ...

• Alibaba open sources privacy-preserving computation 

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 May 2022

Alibaba Group’s global research initiative Alibaba DAMO Academy has made the source code of its latest federated learning platform FederatedScope, a comprehensive platform with easy-to-use ...

• What to expect from Percona Live 2022

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Mar 2022

Percona (arguably) has some spirit. The company has tried really hard to schedule user conventions throughout these first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic; always cancelling when appropriate ...

• Aerospike ‘sharpens cloud’ for disparate real time data

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Mar 2022

Real-time data company Aerospike Inc. has sharpened its scope this month to now provide two new deployments for the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform. Why has Aerospike done this? It’s all about ...

• DataStax Astra DB widens the dream of the real-time stream 

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Mar 2022

Now self-styling itself as the real-time data company, enterprise open source database specialist DataStax has now come forward with its ‘change data capture’ (CDC) function for Astra DB,  a new ...

• Sonatype’s sonar-smart sonata for open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Mar 2022

Nobody quite knows why Sonatype is called Sonatype, the developer-friendly tools specialist for software supply chain automation and security doesn’t make a song and dance about its moniker. Sona ...

• Loft Labs vcluster targets Kubernetes synchonisation customisation frustrations

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Mar 2022

Loft Labs is startup working on developer tooling and platform technology for Kubernetes. The team at Loft Labs has now announced a Plugin System & SDK (Software Development Kit) for its open ...

• CNCF now incubating Knative for serverless & event-driven apps

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Mar 2022

Knative (pronounced kay-native) has just been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Incubating Project.  This status happens when the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) votes ...

• The API traffic cop: UP9 payload pacifier & protocol unpacker

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Feb 2022

What’s one louder than 7-Up? It’s 8-Up, obviously… but that doesn’t work as a brand name because it sounds like ‘ate up’, so why not go two-louder? It’s almost certain that this was not the brand ...

• Trousseau turns up truss torque for Kubernetes

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Feb 2022

Protecting access to sensitive data in Kubernetes is complicated.  Some would go far enough to say that the security layer in Kubernetes is not optimal. Named after the French for ‘truss’ or ‘turn ...