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• Percona details ‘state’ of open source data management

  Adrian Bridgwater 01 Oct 2019

Open source database management and monitoring services company Percona has laid down its state of open source data management software survey for 2019. Surveys are surveys and are generally ...

• Code One showcases Oracle developer tools & platform

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Sep 2019

Oracle used the Code One section of its Oracle Open World 2019 conference to detail some of the more developer-centric elements of its total platform. Code One derives its name from JavaOne, the ...

• Oracle Java SE 13, lucky for faster cadence feature preview fans

  Adrian Bridgwater 17 Sep 2019

Oracle has announced the availability of Java SE 13 (JDK 13) during the company’s Oracle Open World conference and exhibition in San Francisco. Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) is used by ...

• ScyllaDB powers up Alternator: an open Amazon DynamoDB API

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Sep 2019

Companies normally keep things pretty quiet in the run up to their annual user conferences, so they can pepper the press with a bag of announcements designed to show how much market momentum and ...

• Sumo Logic eyes open source disruption (in 4 of 6 stack levels)

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Sep 2019

Software is eating the world… and open source software is creating a new set of recipes, chewing it up and sticking it all into a completely different kind of sandwich with a whole new set of ...

• What is confidential computing?

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Sep 2019

The recent Open Source Summit was held in the balmy climes of San Diego and, among the news emanating from the event itself, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were made aware of ...

• Scylla’s real-time NoSQL database tapped by 'super app'

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Aug 2019

Scylla [pronounced: sill-la] was (and to all intents and purposes still is) a Greek god era sea monster whose mission is to haunt and torment the rocks of a narrow strait of water opposite the ...

• MongoDB code guru: what even is a ‘good’ developer? 

  Adrian Bridgwater 29 Aug 2019

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team blog written by Joe Drumgoole in his capacity as director for developer advocacy across EMEA region at MongoDB.  Drumgoole ...

• Golang or go home: how Curve is taking Golang to new heights

  Adrian Bridgwater 21 Aug 2019

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Matt Boyle in his capacity as lead software engineer at Curve. Curve allows users to spend money from all their ...

• Codefresh freshens produce at the Kubernetes code marketplace

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Aug 2019

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously. The organisation has this month worked to improve ...

• Facebook open sources Hermes JavaScript engine

  Adrian Bridgwater 13 Aug 2019

Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery. Facebook was presumably thinking of Hermes’ more virtuous qualities when it named its ...

• DataStax: what is a ‘progressive’ cloud strategy?

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Aug 2019

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7,  it's a bit better than 7.6

  Adrian Bridgwater 06 Aug 2019

Red Hat… no, wait, stop there -- not Red Hat the IBM company, actually just Red Hat -- that’s how the company is still putting out news stories. We’ll start again, open source enterprise software ...

• NordVPN offers NordLynx for Linux, built around WireGuard

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Aug 2019

Virtual Private Network (VPN) company NordVPN has introduced NordLynx technology built around the WireGuard protocol.  WireGuard is thought to be shaking up the VPN space as a new type of protocol ...

• What is Kubernetes-as-a-Service?

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Aug 2019

According to wikis, hacker forum discussions and the team itself, Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain -- and further, ...