Where does open source software stand today? That is a question that many are asking, with opinions divided between preconceived ideas about the technology and proven deployments. By Yangqing Jia, President and Senior Fellow of Data Platform, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
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Too often, discussions around the challenges of DevOps boil down to collaboration and culture change. Those are certainly real problems to solve, but a focus on working together can obscure what might be holding DevOps back the most today: too many complex and overloaded toolchains. By Eric Brinkman, Director of Product, Dev Products, GitLab.
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Recently, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation - home to open source projects like Kubernetes - declared that Apple had joined the community as a premium member. The foundation is aimed at heavy users of open source technologies, such as AWS, Google and Microsoft, who want g to give back to the community. Clearly, open source is gaining in visibility and entering the mainstream, but why? By Stephan Fabel, Director of Product at Canonical - the publisher of Ubuntu.
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The culture of app development is changing rapidly. In today’s technology world, defined by the speed of change and fierce competition, time-to-market has become a key competitive advantage. Whereas app development with its various phases, from research to design to testing, used to constitute a lengthy project, today, businesses expect apps to be market-ready within weeks. This puts added pressure on developers and businesses as they need to build consumer-grade apps fast without incurring furt...
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Businesses will always strive for faster, bigger and better. It often makes sense to adopt software that can really move the needle on making those broad goals a reality – optimising systems, internal processes, and customer interactions. Every business has unique processes, so a one-size-fits-all approach won’t deliver the best results here. For this reason, numerous businesses are now building bespoke software applications – either internally or through suppliers. By Nick Ford, Chief Technolo...
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Over recent years, we have seen an increase in the popularity of a container-based approach among developers. Containers have become integral to simplifying the development cycle, which has resulted in more widespread adoption. There are also a number of benefits to using containers. For instance, Forrester found that 66% of organisations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developer efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application deployme...
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