Topic: github

SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Yarn

After using the successful npm client for years, a group of Facebook engineers realized that the size of the codebase and the number of engineers grew too much to handle. They needed to create a new package manager to reliably manage all the dependencies, while still giving engineers access to the npm registry. The result … continue reading

Red Hat open-sources community hub Ansible Galaxy

Red Hat is providing a one-stop shop for Ansible content. The company announced the launch of the Ansible Galaxy project, an open-source code repository where developers can find, share and reuse their Ansible work. “Open-source communities are where innovation happens,” said Tim Cramer, head of engineering for Ansible at Red Hat. “The Ansible community is … continue reading

SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Electrode

Walmart isn’t only known for slashing prices. It’s also known for its tech division, WalmartLabs, which has developed several open-source projects, including this week’s GitHub project of the week: Electrode. Walmart serves nearly 260 million customers who visit its 11,504 stores. Knowing that technology and software is always changing, Walmart has been ramping up its … continue reading

RethinkDB is shutting down, Qt Quick Controls, and Sensory gives developers Alexa voice control—SD Times news digest: Oct. 6, 2016

RethinkDB, an open-source database for real-time web functionality, is shutting down despite all efforts to turn it into a database technology business. Slava Akhmechet, founder of RethinkDB, wrote that the members of the RethinkDB community are developing a continuity plan for RethinkDB and Horizon. Both projects will still be available and distributed under open-source licenses. … continue reading

Docker open-sources its infrastructure toolkit, InfraKit

Docker is providing a new way for developers to create and manage their infrastructure. The company announced InfraKit, an open-source toolkit for “self-healing” infrastructure, at its LinuxCon Europe event this week. “With SwarmKit, Docker introduced a declarative management toolkit for orchestrating containers. Today, we are doing the same for infrastructure,” the Docker core engineering team … continue reading

SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: osquery

Osquery wants to make it easy for you to manage your infrastructure. This week’s GitHub project of the week is a SQL-powered detection tool designed to give users real-time insights in order to make informative decisions. It provides intrusion detection, infrastructure reliability, and compliance. “As adoption for osquery grew, a strong and active community emerged … continue reading

Guest View: Are millennials changing the (software) world?

Some of the most successful CEOs in today’s business landscape are under 30 years old. Specifically in the tech industry, millennials are making a huge impression: They are the first generation of digital natives to enter the workforce and have a strong understanding of how our existing and future digital world operates. We’re undergoing a … continue reading

SD Times GitHub project of the week: Paper Planes

Some open-source projects start with a simple question and a little curiosity. Paper Planes, an Android app that augments existing web technology with native Android Nougat features, is no exception. Active Theory and a team from Android worked together on an experiment that turned into an interactive app that allows users to catch and throw … continue reading

JavaOne vendors talk tools, Oracle

At Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne this week, the software development industry was on hand to show off its new tools and to comment on Oracle’s myriad announcements. Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison doubled-down on cloud technologies, offering more cloud services, a cloud-in-a-box on-premise system, and a road map for Java EE. On the outside, … continue reading

Runnable pivots to staging

A year ago, Runnable was a company focused almost entirely on copy/paste coding. Users could paste code into Runnable’s website, then see it in action as the site executed the code in a new window. Today, however, the company finished its pivot from testing window to testing servers. As of today, Runnable now offers full-fledged … continue reading

SD Times Blog: GitHub’s interesting philosophy on enterprises

Source-code management isn’t exactly selling soda. Neither was Apple Computers, but Steve Jobs didn’t see a distinction between what former Apple CEO John Sculley had done at Pepsi and what he wanted him to do at Apple. That inability to see the difference between the two businesses led to the beginning of the downfall of … continue reading

DataScience Cloud, Mesosphere’s DC/OS 1.8, and Twitter’s new MoPub modular SDK—SD Times news digest: Sept. 16, 2016

Data science solution provider DataScience Inc. has announced the release of DataScience Cloud, a new solution designed to extend data science teams. DataScience Cloud allows users to integrate a variety of data sources, browse and query data, build analyses, and deploy models throughout their organization. “The DataScience Cloud is our answer to the struggles of … continue reading

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