Organizations such as the Linux Foundation, OpenSSF, Google, Akamai, and Red Hat attended a White House Summit meant to address supply chain security challenges following the recent log4j crisis. “The open-source ecosystem will need to work together to further cybersecurity research, training, analysis, and remediation of defects found in critical open-source software projects. These plans … continue reading
The goal of the open-source project EVerest is to develop and maintain an open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure. EVerest consists of a framework to configure several interchangeable modules which are coupled by MQTT with each other. The EVerest stack is made out of loosely coupled modules that are orchestrated by the EVerest … continue reading
Microsoft released the January 2022 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework. This security update addresses an issue where an unauthenticated attacker could cause a denial of service on an affected system. Other quality and reliability improvements include an AppContext Switch that can clean up connections on any kinds of failures even while running … continue reading
Crunchy or soggy? It’s a straightforward question. However, it’s likely that you’ve never invested much conscious thought into the answer before. It’s simply a part of who you are. When you join Slack’s engineering team, the answer matters. The more discerning among us ask clarifying questions. What percent? What kind? Eventually, though, we all find … continue reading
Four years after announcing discontinuation plans, Angular has officially discontinued long term support (LTS) for AngularJS. AngularJS is the first version of the Angular framework, which was released in 2010. All subsequent released versions were called Angular. It had initially planned to end LTS in July 2021, but because of COVID-19, it decided to push … continue reading
The DevOps Institute announced its lineup for 2022 events and webinars and plans for two new DevOps certifications. The new certifications include DevOps Practitioner and DevOps Engineering Foundation. Also, SKILup Days, SKILup Hours, and SKILup Festival 2022: A Live DevOps Educational Experience will provide insights and education needed by DevOps professionals in a wide variety … continue reading
Vehicle technology company Aptiv has announced its intent to acquire the embedded systems company Wind River from TPG Capital. The acquisition is valued at $4.3 billion and is expected to close mid-year. “The automotive industry is undergoing its largest transformation in over a century, as connected, software-defined vehicles increasingly become critical elements of the broader … continue reading
Allstacks has experienced tremendous growth over the last 12+ months. We’re excited to announce that Jamie Howard is joining the team as VP of Engineering to champion that growth and help scale a high-performing engineering team that continues to deliver repeatable, predictable, and scalable results. Because Jamie identifies with our mission, his impact will go … continue reading
In an effort to improve open-source skills in the IT sector, the University of Canberra and Instaclustr have formed the Open Source Institute (OpenSI). OpenSI will focus on open source training, certification, and research and development. The first online course offered through OpenSI will be Developer Training and Certification for the event streaming platform Apache … continue reading
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to approve LitmusChaos’ move from the CNCF Sandbox to Incubation level. LitmusChaos is an open-source chaos engineering platform that helps teams identify weaknesses and potential outages in infrastructures by inducing chaos tests in a controlled way. “The CNCF ecosystem has helped us build a strong and vibrant … continue reading
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down offices, people have taken to working remotely, and many have even moved from locations where the cost of living is high to places where it’s more manageable. This raises the issue of data quality, not only in terms of the accuracy of data being input into fields in … continue reading
In this era of Agile software development, the life of a product manager, who has to talk about or plan a single feature, is easy. The life of a developer, who has to code one feature, is easy. For the designer and DevOps engineer, designing and deploying one feature is easy. You know who’s life … continue reading
