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• Google opens Fuchsia: a new Android ready to bloom?

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Dec 2020

Google open sourced its flowery-named Fuschia Operating System (OS) for IoT and mobile applications some four years ago. Know as a capability-based operating system, the project is now open for ...

• LinearB offers A-line to kill off bad code

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Dec 2020

Question: what’s better than project management? Answer: Invisible real-time data-driven project management, that’s what. Holy Land and US-based LinearB plays in this arena and the company insists ...

• Pluralsight s: Happy 25th birthday, dear JavaScript

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Dec 2020

As many will know, JavaScript is a programming language that became the standard for browser-based programming, but it has also expanded beyond the client space to become a dominant language on the ...

• Neural lingual cure-all: Unbabel open sources Machine Translation (MT) tool

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Dec 2020

Babel is a term long associated with language and many of us have read the Tower of Babel pages on Wikipedia and elsewhere. When doing this, if nothing else, you can get some bible study in and ...

• Scanuppa you face: Exadel open sources CompreFace facial recognition tool

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Nov 2020

Within appropriate boundaries governing personal security, identity protection, data governance and information sharing compliance, there’s a strong argument for making all facial recognition ...

• Google launches security 'scorecards' for open source projects

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Nov 2020

Google wants to help the programming community work more confidently with open source software. The search-cloud-platform tech giant has developed a new scorecard system intended to allow software ...

• Open source a stream: Alibaba Cloud conjures up e-retail stream processing ‘magic’

  Adrian Bridgwater 25 Nov 2020

The stuff of legends? The original Ali Baba for sure, but the tech firm Alibaba is also hoping to go down in the history books. TechTarget’s Aaron Tang has already detailed some of the firm’s most ...

• Sumo Logic: inside the architectural cement mixer of multi-cloud

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Nov 2020

Champion of continuous intelligence Sumo Logic spends its time looking inside the state of the modern application technology stack, including changing trends in cloud and application adoption and ...

• OpenUK joins Euro data infrastructure Gaia-X project as ‘UK lifeline’ amid Brexit maelstrom 

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Nov 2020

OpenUK is the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in the UK - so yeah, pretty open all round. The organisation has now joined the ...

• Pedal to the bare metal: Equinix maxes out for scale-out 

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Nov 2020

As Tears For Fears would say: everybody wants to rule the world…  … but as Equinix, Inc. would say: everybody wants to scale to the breadth of potentially web-scale operational scope and the best ...

• Red Hat sharpens OpenShift tools for hybrid cloud ubiquity 

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Nov 2020

Question: how do you build a hybrid cloud strategy? To start with, it’s a good idea to think about having Kubernetes at the core, to enable the orchestration of container workloads around the ...

• Pocket (machine identity) rocket: Jetstack donates cert-manager to CNCF

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Nov 2020

Jetstack wants to be seen as a ‘proper’ open source company i.e. not just a corporate beast with an ‘open technologies’ department that is guilty of open-washing its wares by popping the off bit of ...

• Shipa open sources Ketch

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Nov 2020

Shipa is a cloud native application management framework company. Ketch enables developers to deploy cloud native applications to Kubernetes without a single YAML file, so no Kubernetes expertise ...

• Open source version control with Vershd 3.0 

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Nov 2020

Version control is important. There now - we’ve said it, do you feel better now? Revision control or source code control are also important, mainly because they’re all the same thing i.e. the ...

• GitHub for mobile: the portable collaboratory corroboratory repository 

  Adrian Bridgwater 09 Nov 2020

If there were ever proof needed that we’re a planet going to mobile-first technologies, then surely we need look no further than the extension of GitHub to mobile.  Officially known as GitHub for ...