The “three pillars of observability” are metrics, tracing, and logs. But defining observability by its individual components misses the bigger picture. | Continue reading

Kunal Parmar, director of engineering at Box, discusses the evolution of the cloud content management provider’s cloud native journey. | Continue reading

Google brought us Kubernetes. But now we see a different side to the organization that made such a smart move when it turned over Kubernetes in 2015 and led the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).  | Continue reading

If we look at databases, the preferred way to consume databases by many is through DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service), rather than installing and managing database software manually. If this is the approach you have embraced, your choices in the cloud will vary, although none of them … | Continue reading

Open source software is the heart of enterprise business tech. Without projects like Docker, Kubernetes, Rust, NGINX, MariaDB, Apache, and so many others, big business would struggle under the unbearably slow and inflexible weight of proprietary software. The open source projects … | Continue reading

Rancher's K3s Kubernetes distribution offers SUSE rapid growth and a distinctly new set of users attracted to the ease in which it can be deployed with IoT and edge use cases. | Continue reading

This week saw a special virtual edition of the Linux Foundation's annual Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference North America, which had originally been scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading

One finding is that 43% of teams or projects have less than than one tester or QA engineer per 10 developers. This is not necessarily a problem if most testing is automated, but that is only true among 38% of those surveyed. | Continue reading

Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software. The industry sorely needs to move to a performant, memory-safe language for its low-low system work. And the best choice on the market today is Rust, Levick said. | Continue reading

On May 25, 2020, suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died of asphyxiation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died because one white police officer pressed his knee onto the neck of Floyd — who was already face down on the ground and in han … | Continue reading

There's a need for "containerless" computing - in which application developers can focus on the services, rather than the infrastructure. | Continue reading

Cyber offense and defense isn’t chess. It’s a game of poker. In chess, you have complete visibility into your opponent’s position and moves. In poker, you lack that visibility which also happens in the cyber realm. | Continue reading

Twenty years ago, Dries Buytaert founded Drupal right at the dot-com bust. Then in 2008, at the start of the so-called Great Recession, he started Acquia, a digital experience platform for Drupal sites. Some would say recessions are unlucky times to start businesses. Not Buytaert … | Continue reading

It’s very hard to write code for serverless applications. Here’s why.Serverless is, in part, an operations innovation. And for operations teams, it can make workflows a lot easier. But currently, serverless provides a poor experience for the people who have to write the code to m … | Continue reading

Things will never be the same again after the dust settles. And yes, I’m talking about Linux. As I write this, most of the world is in lockdown due to COVID-19. It’s hard to say how things will look when this is over (it will be over, right?), but one thing is for sure: the … | Continue reading

The Linux Foundation sponsored this post. Tencent, an internet-based platform company, has developed TARS microservices for ARM CPU architectures. TARS, a mature open source remote procedure call (RPC) framework is widely used by developers as a toolbox for quickly building syste … | Continue reading

git's 15 year rise to the top of the market for distributed version control systems. | Continue reading

How Glispa, a Berlin-based digital marketing and mobile advertising company, used GitLab and Kubernetes to dramatically reduce time to ship code, as well as to cut costs. | Continue reading

This Week in Programming captures the week's top development news for the cloud native computing community. | Continue reading

The newly-released Kublr 1.16, a tool that facilitates deploying enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters, is the first multicloud and multiplatform Kubernetes platform to offer rolling updates for the open source container orchestration engine, the company behind the technology clai … | Continue reading

InfluxData sponsored this post. I can’t distinctly remember the first time I used a third-party public source code repository. For the sake of argument, let’s say this code up on SourceForge I uploaded marks the event after I left Microsoft. Apparently, my first project there use … | Continue reading

GitHub's "2020 Arctic Vault" program brings modern technologies into a surprisingly primitive environment to deliver an unexpected honor for a wide swath of the 100 million code repositories currently hosted on GitHub's servers, by archiving of all this material in perpetuity in … | Continue reading

Nandi Wong, a Senior Backend Engineer at KintoHub, recently combined the right developer tools to build a dynamic website that serves millions of users at no cost. Not to mention, it was built in only two days. | Continue reading

While open source software is taking over the world, a push for open source hardware has been quietly building.The RISC-V foundation has been pushing its open sourced instruction set architecture for chips based on the long-established paradigms for reduced instruction set comput … | Continue reading