Tag: community
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Flood of security patches: Spring Framework ed.
Community security reports for Spring, by month. In April, utilizing new scanning capabilities, we received an unprecedented 482 new security reports across 65 scanned projects. Of those 482 new reports, 370 came from our internal scanning capabilities and 112 came from the community. This means that even without the new scanning, we would still have…
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Datacenter NIMBYism: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Tech people are amazingly bad at marketing to The Community. And by “the community,” I mean normal people, not the “open source community.” Take the datacenter problem. Tech companies need more compute, so they need datacenters. They plop them down in some small town, avoid paying taxes, and consume huge amounts of electricity and water.…
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This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode is with Lian Li: In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up comedy, and improv theater. She talks about platform engineering, the importance…
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🤖 The 2025 OWASP Top 10 rebrands “Vulnerable Components” as “Software Supply Chain Failures” and elevates “Security Misconfiguration” to the number two spot. Chris Cropper and Rita Manachi analyze the changes and argue that bypassing security controls for the sake of “innovation” is increasingly a liability, not a competitive advantage. 🔗 Beyond a Team Sport,…
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🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away
Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of whom face crushing workloads and relentless community pressure. A recent study by Miranda Heath, supported by Sentry’s Open Source Pledge, reveals that burnout among maintainers is not an isolated issue but a systemic failure threatening the stability of the global…
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Office hours, DaShaun’s secret to juicing up your enterprise devrel
DaShaun became a great devrel by developing a new way to work with our community. I’ve seen it pay off in all ways, big time. Here is his key differentiation for devrel. The business if devrel: There’s more to developer advocacy than just conferences and content. The real thing that companies [that hire devrel] want,…
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I’m creating a State of Spring [Framework] talk, just 20 minutes. The focus isn’t so much on the framework, but the community around it. This, of course, means Java too. Here’s some numbers. What do you think about the Spring and Java community and developers who use Spring and Java?
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Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management
Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…
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Internal Developer Platform Marketing, part 01
Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…
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“Still Federating After All These Years”: The Realities Of EA Maturation – Letter from the enterprise architect club.
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How’s that open source licensing coming along? – ”The takeaway is that forks from relicensing tend to have more organizational diversity than the original projects. In addition, projects that lean on a community of contributors run the risk of that community going elsewhere when relicensing occurs.”
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There never was a rug – the social norms of open source staying open have changed
From Iceland. This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast We talk about the open source “rug pull” du jour in this week’s Software Defined Podcast: “This week, we discuss CockroachDB’s relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.” We both steer us towards a…
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Lessons learned from Cloud Foundry for the platform engineering community
Here’s my talk from Cloud Foundry Day, last week: The Cloud Foundry community has been around for a long time and the PaaSes built on it have been in use for awhile as well (many for at least five year, some for well over 7 years). In this talk, I first wanted to go over…
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Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 – A sum up of the trends and state of the kubernetes/cloud native community, but an even better picture of the setting and tone.
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The community is moving
The people in my tech community who talk about community find Twitter so vile that there’s little discussion of the good parts. It was a great place for discovering, building, and “doing” community. And it still is, though mixed in with all the other stuff1. This history of DevOps, cloud stuff, and everything that followed…
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🗂 Link: Tips for using Instagram as an artist
Trying to get a gallery? Group shows are a great way for artists of all career levels to gain visibility. So in your Instagram posts, catch the attention of curators and gallerists by sharing talking points about your work’s theme and intentions, medium and materials. Want a public-art commission or a social-practice residency? Create context…
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Link: Focus Your Optimistic Brand Message on a Smaller Circle of Consumer Influence
Our research shows that time and again, consumers will express pessimism and frustration about the state of broader society, while espousing hope for their personal lives. It would seem that consumers don’t see much to be positive about at the societal level these days, so instead they are looking closer to home and within themselves…
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🗂 community, you keep using that word
> Selling something for more than the cost is the only business model ever. Everything else is figuring out how to facilitate and optimize the transaction. Sell something people value has to be the foundational strategy. Community is had in any type of software, OSS, closed, aaS, or enterprise. Managing the sentiments of that community…
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Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for
‘To start with, there are the infrastructural systems that fill out the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid of needs: clean water on tap, the ability to flush away disease-causing waste, natural gas for warmth and food preparation, and raw energy in the form of electricity, for heat and light, to replace physical labor, and to power…
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They patiently waited three years to reach that punchline. http://depression-and-movies.tumblr.com/post/87484105662/community-has-pulled-off-one-the-most-patient
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