Open Source Insider

August 2015

• NodeConf EU all set for blarney in 'Nodeland'

  Adrian Bridgwater 27 Aug 2015

For the duration of the event the private island surrounding the historic Waterford Castle will be renamed 'Nodeland'.

• Hortonworks: how to pin down data inside the 'Internet of Anything'

  Adrian Bridgwater 26 Aug 2015

News this week sees Hortonworks finalise an agreement to acquire Onyara, Inc.

• Apache Twill: real abstraction is a decoupled algorithm

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Aug 2015

Its like distributed is good, decoupled distributed is really good -- but abstracted decoupled distributed is even better.

• How software acceleration works inside DevOps

  Adrian Bridgwater 20 Aug 2015

Software acceleration technologies exist to pump extra optimisation and performance out of existing tools -- although in this category we often primarily talk about GPU-based acceleration, it has ...

• Microsoft still gives an F#

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Aug 2015

Microsoft Research was founded in 1991 and is the company's division dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.

• IBM LinuxONE is a Linux-only mainframe

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Aug 2015

IBM has introduced two Linux mainframe servers under the brand name LinuxONE.

• IBM's X-Force saves Earth from Android('s vulnerabilities)

  Adrian Bridgwater 12 Aug 2015

Researchers from IBM's X-Force security division say they have discovered a number of high-severity vulnerabilities affecting more than 55% of Android devices.

• Pixar open sources Finding Nemo... (digital content software)

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Aug 2015

Animation house Pixar will now open source its Universal Scene Description software.

• Couchbase CEO: How to understand benchmarks, from BS to belief

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Aug 2015

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase.

• All software is inadequate, who knew?

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Aug 2015

If you find yourself in need of some open platform inspiration on any given day, then opensource.com itself is always worth a look in.

• Facebook 'LIKES' Google FlatBuffers, ups performance on Android

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Aug 2015

Facebook has turned a Google open source project to try and tune its performance on Android devices.