Devops started off as a new hype, but it has become the definition of how IT is managed in the cloud era. Developments and operations teams need to work closely together to get the best result possible for the business. Devops is here to stay.
Software development is still growing rapidly. Despite that fact, there are still not enough developers available, the new cloud era has changed the way applications are build, run and managed. This new way of application development has unleashed a redevelopment of many older legacy business applications. A lot of companies are looking at their business processes and how to optimise them in the cloud era, and this usually means the development of new applications and tools.
For example, best-of-breed is becoming more and more popular, where different applications are being combined to get the best possible outcome. These different applications have to work together and developers have to setup Integration platforms like Mulesoft and Dell Boomi to streamline the data processes between applications.
Due to the shortage of developers there is a new emerging trend, called low-code. Low-code, together with no-code gives businesses the opportunity to build new applications based on an existing platform without writing any (no-code) or a lot less (low-code) code. Platforms like Mendix, Outsystems, Betty Blocks, but also Salesforce Lightning, are growing very rapidly.
In the DevOps world, the use of open-source software is still rising. Many popular technologies are built in the open-source ecosystem and developed by hundreds or even thousands of developers all working at different companies. New technologies come out of the open-source world, or are donated to the open-source world by big IT vendors. A good example is Kubernetes.
Kong, a company that provides solutions to manage APIs, has acquired Insomnia and has announced a new product with their technology. The company has also updated its core platform based on this technology. Technically, Kong has acquired Floating Keyboard Software, but that company is active unde... Read more
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CentOS, Red Hat's Enterprise Linux clone, will get a rolling release version. The new version will be called CentOS Stream and is intended for software developers. In short, CentOS will receive continuous updates, which was only the case with RHEL until now. All parts, from kernel to application... Read more
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Microsoft has made its implementation of the Standard Library of C++ open-source on GitHub. The implementation becomes available under an Apache 2.0 license, with exceptions for LLVM. Stephan Lavavej from Microsoft gave a number of reasons for the move to a company blog post. One of the reasons ... Read more
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Microsoft is most likely in the process of redesigning Azure Stack, the company's hybrid cloud service. The redesign should change the infrastructure on which Azure Stack runs into a container-based infrastructure. The project to reorganize the underlying infrastructure for Azure Stack is codena... Read more
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Oracle has announced Java SE 13 and Java Development Kit (JDK) 13. The announcement is accompanied by the promise that future updates will be available every six months. Improvements to the platform include better performance, stability and security. Previews have also been announced for two new... Read more
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According to Red Hat, software-defined storage is the foundation for the hybrid cloud. That's why storage is a basic element for all the products of the open-source specialist. Techzine talked about this with vice president and general manager of Red Hat Storage, Ranga Rangachari. The various Re... Read more
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The Python Software Foundation has announced that Python 2.0 will end on the 1st of January in 2020. The programming language was introduced in 2000. Six years later, it was succeeded by Python 3.0. However, version 2.0 was still widely used by developers. The two programming languages existed s... Read more
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Microsoft has made its Vision AI Developer Kit widely available through Arrow Electronics. The developer kit is a hardware base built on Qualcomm's Vision Intelligence Platform and designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models locally and integrate with Azure ML and Azure IoT Edge. The develop... Read more
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In today's hybrid world, configuration management is one of the most important topics on the agenda of companies and organizations. Especially when it comes to application delivery. DevOps specialist Puppet is responding skillfully to this and focuses on cloud-native and open source. We recently di... Read more
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Expert talks
How do you prepare your infrastructure for the future of DevOps and IT? Keeping up with the speed of technical developments is more difficult than ever. The roadmaps of five years - with which could be worked for years - were replaced by versions of three years. But they are no longer usable. Speed... Read more
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