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• 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 ...

• Microsoft’s turns over new 'leaf' with open source Akri

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Nov 2020

Akri is a Greek village in the north of the country in the Elassona municipality. Akri is also a new (as of Oct 2020) open source project initiated by Microsoft to connect ‘leaf devices’ like ...

• Siren open source intelligence goes one louder, to 11.0

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Nov 2020

Ireland-based Siren didn’t just make ten one louder, the company has pushed its open source investigative intelligence analytics technology to version 11.0 this month. Siren 11.0 is designed to ...

• RHEL 8.3 'tunes' up for auto-Ops-centricity 

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Oct 2020

Red Hat, Inc. is still just that i.e. Red Hat, Inc. Now nestled under the IBM parent umbrella, the company appears to be very much its own entity.  Some media reports have even suggested that Red ...

• Adobe has open source developer tool ‘renaissance’

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Oct 2020

Time was when the Computer Weekly Developer Network wouldn’t pass a 12-month without attending a veritable handful of Adobe developer events, seminars, conferences, use case tutorials and all ...

• From onerous to harmonious: MongoDB Atlas plays simultaneous multi-cloud tunes

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Oct 2020

Keen to stress its multi-tool abilities, MongoDB these days calls itself a modern ‘general purpose’ database platform company. The firm is stressing its general (i.e. width and breadth) ...

• Why ODPi & LF AI have come together

  Adrian Bridgwater 26 Oct 2020

This is a guest post written by John Mertic in his role as ODPi program Director at The Linux Foundation -- founded in 2000, the foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around ...