Google and IBM want worldwide lists of essential open source software
Google and IBM see public-private partnerships as the solution to identifying and securing vulnerable open source software. "Open source software should receive the same funding as bridges and roads", said Kent Walker, Chief Legal Officer at Google.
IBM and Google presented the solution during a...
Back-end developer is the most in-demand tech job
HackerEarth, a developer hiring platform, conducted a survey that revealed that back-end developers top the list of in-demand tech jobs/ That means back-end developers could be in a great place if they know PHP, Python, Java, and .NET, as companies are looking to onboard talent to serve the hybrid ...
Grafana Cloud delivers on-call management while making Loki easier to use
During ObservabilityCON, Grafana Labs announced updates to its commercial offerings, emphasizing its most recent open-source releases. One of the new releases was named Grafana Enterprise traces and is a self-managed tracing service that uses Tempo (an open-source project) as its basis.
It inclu...
Google tops prize pool of security bounty program SOS with $1 million
On the 1st of October, the Linux Foundation introduced a bounty program (Secure Open Source) to strengthen the security of widely used open source projects. Today, Google has funded the prize pot with an additional $1 million, to be awarded to developers that successfully contribute to the program....
PostgreSQL 14 is here with additions and enhancements
Last week, open-source fans were given a reason to be happy, when PostgreSQL 14 was released. This iteration of the RDBMS features performance enhancements for heavy, distributed workloads. The seasonal autumn release was announced last week.
In PostgreSQL 14, users should expect big new feature...
An EU-commissioned study in the impact of open source returns mixed results
The economic benefits highlighted by the study are enormous. However, the European Union is on the "back foot" when it comes to implementation. The study comes from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect). The study's authors in...
Microsoft becomes Platinum member of Open Infrastructure Foundation
OpenStack, the open-source, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud company related to projects like Airship (open-source tools for cloud provisioning) and Zuul (the Ansible-based Continous Integration (CI) system), has for years been stuck between what Gartner calls the Trough of Disillusionment ...
Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy
The European Commission (EC) has released a new report that reveals the impact open-source software (OSS) and open-source hardware (OSH) can have on the European Union economy. The report is titled "The Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological dependencies, competitiveness and i...
Amazon MemoryDB by AWS is now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a managed in-memory database the company says will simplify the application development process. Enterprise applications have different data access speed requirements.
For instance, a revenue forecasting tool ma...
Open Compute Project unveils its Strategy 2.0
The Project is focusing on open silicon designs and optical networking.
The Open Compute Project has outlined a new strategy which it released last week. The Project will pursue open silicon designs and concentrate on future innovations in optical networking, AI, and immersion cooling.
The O...
Google unveils a unified vulnerability schema for open source
The release aims to make it easier to share vulnerabilities between databases.
Google this week announced a unified schema to address an issue with existing vulnerability databases. Specifically, the release wants to address the problems arising when various ecosystems and organizations create t...
New Relic gives boost to observability with Pixie Auto-Telemetry
The innovation is one of a series of new products announced at the company's developer conference.
New Relic announced a series of new product innovations and community initiatives at its annual developer conference, FutureStack 2021.
The new offerings aim to help engineers make observability...