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They call it #TeamCloudNative. It’s a hashtag that represents the combined forces of Kubecon and CloudNativeCon. The news here is that Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has now finalised all ...

It was all the way back in 2019 that we last posed the question... and asked what we could expect from a UiPath Forward conference. Back then, we spoke about who or what UiPath is… and we even ...

Sumo Logic can’t get through a press statement without using the term ‘continuous intelligence’, but that’s okay… every firm is allowed some form of core descriptor and it does explain what the ...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), is, just in case you hadn’t noticed, a big company. As such, it can pretty much name its products however it likes… and Amazon DevOps Guru is a case in point. Not ...

In a world of ever-fast-changing cloud-based applications, a modern approach to application development is needed, argues vice president for platform strategy at OutSystems Miguel Lopes - this is a ...

In a world of ever-fast-changing cloud-based applications, an augmented approach to application development is needed, argues vice president for platform strategy at OutSystems Miguel Lopes — this ...

AtomicJar is a startup on a mission to make integration testing easier for developers across the software development lifecycle. The organisation aims to serve the Testcontainers community, build ...

Known for its observability technology, New Relic this year joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board as a platinum member. It was a natural biological organic fit, say ...

APIs are everything. Actually, they’re not, they’re just really important in the context of modern cloud applications, services and distributed networks that rely upon the interconnectivity and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network has been in pieces.  Not literally, emotionally or figuratively as such, but in terms of our approach to ingesting and analysing the state of the technology ...

Linode is not afraid to be a bit different, or so it appears. The firm takes an open stance on sensitive issues and even uses a quirky company descriptor. Those not familiar with the Philly ...

Open source is all about data, obviously… but we’ve seen these last few months really amplify the notion of data-in-motion. It wasn’t so long ago that Confluent for Kubernetes arrived, a platform ...

Clearly big tuna fans, Yellowfin is an analytics vendor that combines action-based dashboards, automated discovery and what it likes to call ‘data storytelling’, which is presumably some form of ...

The era of control planes has started. That’s what Upbound, the company behind the open source Crossplane project (now donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in full) thinks. Why ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tells us that it’s on a mission. That mission is to build not just cloud-native software, that part should be obvious, right? Its self-stated mission is ...

Composable IT is increasingly being discussed across the industry, but the adoption and implementation at enterprise level can be challenging even for the best. This is a guest post for the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yves Junqueira in his position as CEO at YourBase – a software testing acceleration platform that automates the test ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Antony Bourne in his role as SVP Industries at IFS -- IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for companies around ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aidan Hobson Sayers, technical director at Hadean. Hadean was founded in 2015 with a mission to democratise supercomputing ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rahul Pradhan in his role as senior director for product and engineering in the cloud division at Couchbase. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kelly Goetsch in his role as chief product officer at commercetools --  a cloud-based headless commerce platform that ...

This post is written by Ariel Assaraf in his capacity as CEO at Coralogix -- a stateful streaming analytics platform that produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance ...

This is a guest post by Anthony Cusimano in his role as solutions evangelist at Veritas Technologies -- a company known for its work in cloud storage, backup & recovery services, data ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Warner in his capacity as CEO and co-founder of LGN -- a company known as a developer of artificial perception ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Dossa in his role as chief technology officer at Polymath -- the company is known for its technology that provides a ...

There’s that strange moment when you walk into an enterprise technology ‘show floor’ after the breakfast, keynotes, handshakes (hand sanitiser application) and the point where you grab a free ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Doron Sherman in his capacity as VP of developer relations at Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and ...

The global technology stack is moving towards a more universally composable interconnected multi-layered (and multi-tenant) architecture where hybrid-multi-poly cloud resources are coalesced into ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Guy Sayar in his capacity as field CTO for EMEA region at HashiCorp -- the company is known for its modular DevOps ...

We all know where the edge is, it’s that peripheral zone of data existence somewhere near the outer reaches of the western spiral arm of the galaxy in the Internet of Things (IoT). Given that we ...

Civo (pronounced see-vo, not chi-vo) is a cloud native service provider known for its work with Kubernetes. The company thinks that around half of what it would identify as cloud developers are ...

Copado might sound like some type of tropical fruit drink, but it is in fact a DevOps specialist organisation that embraces cloud-native computing for what it calls a ‘true multi-cloud DevOps’ ...

Grafana Labs specialises in what it calls ‘open and composable’ operational dashboards. That’s dashboards for viewing virtualized compute stack metrics, logs and traces - not dashboards in any ...

First, we had User eXperience (UX). Then, although it’s a still-nascent notion that’s not widely discussed, we had Developer eXperience (DX). Now, largely due to the nature of the web and the ...

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is an open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The team has this summer said ...

Information technology systems are like bank accounts. No, you don’t get a free pen and a fancy ‘touchless’ plastic card with your photo in the corner and an animal design of your choice… well, ...

How much cloud data management does any single instance or any single organisation’s IT stack actually need? Don’t try and answer that, it’s a trick question. The answer is obviously impossible to ...

In an open source originated commentary from Red Hat’s Irshad Raihan, director of product marketing, Computer Weekly Open Source Insider welcomes Raihan’s comments on the subject of computational ...

It was somewhere around a decade ago that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (now president at IBM as he is) used the composability term as a hook for his keynote. “I want to talk to you about the era of ...

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...

Connect, unify & predict. You can almost smell the cellophane wrapping on the technology conference T-shirts as every vendor worth its salt emblazons its give-aways with phases like this. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dick Morrell, who tweets at @ThatPodcastChap and describes himself as a father, podcaster, a Linux veteran and open source ...

Cloud is complicated. Yes, cloud computing is generally agreed to be a route to providing compute, storage, analytics and an increasing amount of AI-engine power supplied as-a-Service, plus it ...

Splunk’s new Observability Cloud has launched this month, at a time when observability has become one of the hot/darling/killer (choose your own hype label) terms circulating across the technology ...

Atlassian has selected enterprise cloud application and data service observability platform company Dynatrace as its launch partner for its Open DevOps initiative. Atlassian has (arguably, boldly) ...

Armory is an open source continuous delivery software company. The company has this year introduced Armory Minnaker (rhymes with Spinnaker, for obvious reasons - see more below), a virtual machine ...

With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is deep in container-land, we’re Kubed into Kubernetes and we’re about as hybrid multi-cloud cloud-natively virtualised into abstraction Nirvana as its ...

After our extensive enterprise containerisation series and subsequent feature entitled ‘Preparing for enterprise class containerisation’, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team sat down ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...

What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...

Yes we’re still in lockdown (or a version of it) and all meetings are virtual, but the Computer Weekly Developer Network is still talking to members of the industry glitterati about containers. ...

This is a Q&A features David Meyer in his role as SVP of products at Databricks - a data lakehouse provider. Computer Weekly: What do enterprises need to think about when it comes to ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Bruno Andrade in his roles as CEO at Shipa.io -- a company known for its technology that provides a developer-centric portal ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Markus Eisele, developer adoption lead for EMEA at Red Hat & Chris Jenkins, EMEA chief technologist for infrastructure ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

Cloud computing is now so much part of our everyday lives that it’s hard to remember a time when this wasn’t the case. Less than a decade ago, our surveys were still throwing up results confirming ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...

As promised in a recent blog focusing on Cato Networks’ recent customer survey results - “The 2021 Networking Survey The Future of Enterprise Networking and Security: Are You Ready For The Next ...

Dynatrace has now enhanced its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to analyse logs from Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments, plus, also, the most widely used open source log data ...

The maintainers of Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh have announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee.  As TechTarget reminds us, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer ...

Software application developers are working hard to adapt to a changing landscape. Software tools are changing, codebases are changing, cloud formats and data integration practices are changing, AI ...

You might still have a Hitachi television at home or perhaps even a briefcase-style retro radio from the 1980s… but these days the company wants to be thought of in broader terms. The company’s ...

As every good software engineer knows, not all clouds are equal. Where some instances are optimised for compute processing, some are tuned for analytics, specific Input/Output (I/O) prowess, ...

Red Kubes is a provider of a turn-key out-of-the-box (Ed: enough hyphens already!) Kubernetes-based container platform product. The company has now open sourced the Otomi Container Platform ...

SAP is many things. It is a database company, it is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) company, it is a data analytics company, it is a User eXperience company, it is a financial software tools ...

More than ‘just’ a low-code software company these days, Portugal-founded OutSystems will be 20-years old next year and the company now stands for an application platform designed to provide ...

If anyone were in any doubt, the future is cloud. Just to clarify, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid cloud. For the record, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid ...

If Jamie Oliver (other celebrity chefs are available) launched a service named Tastiest Ever Chef, you might not think it that unusual… but it’s a brand naming convention that we don’t often find ...

Software intelligence company Dynatrace enjoys tracing, dynamically, obviously. As such then, the fourth generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath captures, ...

Champion of continuous intelligence Sumo Logic spends its time looking inside the state of the modern application technology stack, including changing trends in cloud and application adoption and ...

As Tears For Fears would say: everybody wants to rule the world…  … but as Equinix, Inc. would say: everybody wants to scale to the breadth of potentially web-scale operational scope and the best ...

Whenever anyone tells you that technology needs an ever-increasing injection of agility, you would be forgiven for a) possibly starting to yawn - but also b) predominantly thinking about the ...

Question: how do you build a hybrid cloud strategy? To start with, it’s a good idea to think about having Kubernetes at the core, to enable the orchestration of container workloads around the ...

Shipa is a cloud native application management framework company. Ketch enables developers to deploy cloud native applications to Kubernetes without a single YAML file, so no Kubernetes expertise ...

Nobody ever stops to ask why infrastructure configuration compliance and automation company Puppet, is called Puppet. But of course, it’s obvious, a ‘real world’ puppet’s core infrastructure is ...

Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or caving. Spelunking Spelunkers dive down into the depths of the earth to look for the lower substrate layers that make up our planet. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Taariq Lewis, CEO and founder of  Promise  -- the company delivers onchain credit reputations, for the world, using digital ...

No coach potatoes in residence this month at Couchbase, or so it appears.  The self-styled multi-cloud-to-edge NoSQL database company (yeah, it’s a mouthful) has announced version 2.8 of Couchbase ...