Tag: opensource
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Release your software all at once to defend against hacks
The Spring team is now releasing all updates on one day to give people a leg up in patching: Historically, we spread releases over a two-week period with each level of the Spring portfolio dependency tree shipping on a different day. While that approach has served us well over the years, in a world where…
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New open source support plan from Broadcom VMware Tanzu
Padmanabhan said that promise means VMware will also provide “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for code that is not part of Spring, including the wider Java ecosystem, Python, and Node.js. … Broadcom’s curation process ensures that the libraries conform to a reference architecture and are supportable by the maintainers of record,” according to a company statement. “Thousands…
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Using frontier models to find security problems in Spring Framework – a trickle turned into a tidal wave
“In March, we saw 55 reports coming from the community. In April, that went to 112. April is also when we finally got access to those frontier models and started doing internal scanning, and our internal scans gave us another 370 internal reports.” Michael Minella on the Spring Team. The historical baseline was about seven…
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Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing – Looks useful for getting precious text out of the PDF silo, from IBM.
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“the great murderer of boredom”
My Content Two Software Defined episodes this week: “I used to eat 7-Eleven pizza,” startups, open source, and more, with Sarah Christoff – After an extensive discussion of 7-Eleven pizza cuisine, in this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Sarah Christoff. They discuss working at startups, the point of startups, working in open source and…
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The good times in tech are over – ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”
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Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race – ”Open source, publishing papers, in fact, do not cost us anything. For technical talent, having others follow your innovation gives a great sense of accomplishment. In fact, open source is more of a cultural behavior than a commercial one, and contributing to it earns us respect.…
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Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat
The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and Red Hat live and die by the fact that they are neutral to any particular platform. While IBM may prefer Red Hat’s various elements of the stack – the Enterprise Linux operating system, the OpenShift container system, the OpenStack cloud…
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🗂 The Non-Compete Software Movement
> If I want to grab a piece of software and build a business on top of it through my own labor, I need to go elsewhere. I’m not welcome to do that in your house. medium.com/@adamhjk/…
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Link: ‘The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring’ says boss of DevOps darling Puppet
Their portfolio: Puppet Bolt, the company’s simplified open source automation framework, hit version 1.0; Puppet Insights, a tool for measuring how fast and how well teams commit code, showed up as a private beta; Puppet Discovery, for corralling IT resources, moved on to version 1.6; Pipelines for Containers 3.3 got Helm support; and Puppet Enterprise…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #40
I was down in France, just around Paris this week to speak at an event. The audience gave me the chance to work on a military-centric version of my standard talk which was fun, and was well received. I dove even deeper into the ongoing US Air Force story of modernizing their software. It’s chock…
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Link: Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services
“The modules in question are used to help create managed services on top of Redis, namely RediSearch, Redis Graph, ReJSON, Redis-ML, and Rebloom. Licensed under Apache 2.0 modified with Commons Clause, these can still be freely used in any application, though they can’t be used in a commercial Redis-based offering. For that, you will have…
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Link: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, some arch open source/lock-in talk. Original source: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
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Link: Will open source software become a ‘tragedy of the commons’?
I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But because contributors haven’t been able to derive value through a platform built just for them, they must look for other ways to gain value, perhaps through the addition of intellectual property. And this leads us into the tragedy of…
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Link: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
Original source: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
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Link: Red Hat on its way to becoming the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source company
‘I’ll tell you something that’s not fantasy. In the next few years, Red Hat will become the first billion-dollar-a-quarter open-source company, and that’s real money… Here’s how. First, as Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, said in the earnings call, “We anticipate exiting the fiscal year with an annualized run-rate of approximately $3 billion for total…
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