Open Source Insider

December 2015

• The danger ahead: skyscraper code favelas  in earthquake zones

  Adrian Bridgwater 30 Dec 2015

The story here is that yes, indeed, software is eating the world... but in a proprietary-only technical debt-ridden software world... that software sucks.

• DreamFactory: a RESTful backend shapes a nice MBaaS

  Adrian Bridgwater 23 Dec 2015

DreamFactory is an open source firm dedicated to helping programmers manage REST APIs for mobile, cloud and IoT applications.

• Huawei goes (smart) home with HiLink open source platform

  Adrian Bridgwater 15 Dec 2015

A dedicated HiLink Software Development Kit (SDK) will be arrive towards the end of 2016 with the 'LiteOS' operating system.

• Red Hat mobile CTO: how Node.js went exponential

  Adrian Bridgwater 08 Dec 2015

Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Red Hat CTO recently engaged in a discussion with the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog as to why we have seen such exponential growth in Node.js at this time.

• Microsoft open sources Chakra JavaScript Edge browser engine

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Dec 2015

Microsoft will open source the Chakra JavaScript engine on GitHub next month.

• Apple tailors Swift for open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Dec 2015

Named parameters brought forward from Objective-C are expressed in a clean syntax that makes APIs in Swift even easier to read and maintain

• RethinkDB: how to be successful with open source

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Dec 2015

Open source is a fantastic software development model, but it's as much about the people as it is about the license involved.

• Varnish Software: Zipnish for microservices

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Dec 2015

"Companies use Varnish Cache for speeding up a lot different things, not just websites", explains Per Buer, founder and CTO of Varnish Software.