By Serdar Yegulalp It’s become a tradition for big names in IT to open-source bits of their infrastructure: Google with Kubernetes, Facebook with React and RocksDB, and many others. Now it’s Yahoo’s turn. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: January 2017
New framework uses Kubernetes to deliver serverless app architecture
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•By Serdar Yegulalp A new framework built atop Kubernetes is the latest project to offer serverless or AWS Lambda-style application architecture on one’s own hardware or in a Kubernetes-as-a-service offering. The <a class="colorbox" href="https://github.com/fission/fission" …read more Source:: OpenSource
The 6 unwritten rules of open source development
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•By Matt Hicks Matt Hicks is vice president of software engineering at Red Hat and one of the founding members of the Red Hat OpenShift team. He has spent 15 years in software …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apache Beam unifies batch and streaming for big data
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Apache Beam, a unified programming model for both batch and streaming data, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. Aside from becoming another full-fledged …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Why a MacOS user switched to Ubuntu Linux
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•By Jim Lynch Why a MacOS user switched to Ubuntu Linux Apple’s MacOS has long been the de facto alternative to Windows. But what happens when a MacOS user tires of doing things Apple’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft’s R tools bring data science to the masses
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•By Simon Bisson One of Microsoft’s more interesting recent acquisitions was Revolution Analytics, a company that built tools for working with big data problems using the open source statistical programming language …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Why do you use Linux?
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•By Jim Lynch Why do you use Linux? Linux has much to offer any user, and people run it on their computers for lots of different reasons. One redditor recently asked why his fellow …read more Source:: OpenSource
Rust rocks, but wide-scale use remains years away
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The Rust language has earned fans because it helps developers create software that runs with the speed and efficiency of C, but with fewer security and stability pitfalls. As the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Git Hound, Truffle Hog root out GitHub leaks
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid It’s App Dev 101: Don’t hard-code API tokens, encryption keys, and user credentials. But if you do, make sure to get them out of your code before committing to GitHub …read more Source:: OpenSource
New functional language for JVM builds on Haskell, Clojure, ML
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 …read more Source:: OpenSource