Tag: open source
Best of 2024: Valkey is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
Redis is taking it in the chops, as both maintainers and customers move to the Valkey Redis fork ...
Perforce Forks Puppet, Community Considers Muppet
DevOps platform company Perforce is forking Puppet, the open-source configuration management technology it acquired in May 2022 ...
Report Shines Spotlight on Open Source Software Security Challenges
An analysis of more than five million open-source software packages published by Lineaje, a provider of a platform for tracking open-source software components, finds 95% of security issues involve some type of ...
Code Busters: Are Ghost Engineers Haunting DevOps Productivity?
A study coming out of Stanford University conducted by software engineering productivity specialist Yegor Denisov-Blanch claims that developer teams are rife with so-called ghost engineers who do virtually no work ...
Sonatype Report Surfaces Software Supply Chain Security Challenges
Sonatype today during a virtual All-Day DevOps (ADD) event shared the results of a report that finds there has been a 156% increase in the number of malicious open source packages year-over-year, ...
Survey Finds Compensation Drives Better Open Source Software Security Behavior
A survey of 400 maintainers of open-source software projects suggests IT organizations should be paying a lot more attention to the degree to which the stewards of these projects are compensated before ...
GitHub Steers Copilot Autofix Into Eye of AI Security Storm
GitHub has come forward with its new Copilot Autofix tool. This AI-driven software service is targeted at developers who need to address software vulnerabilities in code destined for traditional applications and inside ...
Endor Labs Adds Analytics and Patching Tools to Secure Open Source Software
Endor Labs today at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference revealed it has added an ability to determine how challenging it might prove to be to upgrade an open source software package, ...
Survey Finds Speed of Software Deployment Outpacing Security
A survey of 5,315 individual contributors and leaders in development, IT operations and security finds two-thirds (66%) are releasing software faster than they were a year ago ...
The Future of Observability: How OpenTelemetry is Shaping IT Operations in the Age of AI
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is going to do for IT operations what open-source software originally did for application development ...
How to Migrate an Observability Platform to Open-Source and Cut Costs
Migrating to an open-source stack is a better solution as it gives you control over telemetry data and reduces observability costs, despite challenges with existing service provider commitments ...
Open-Source Software Community Riled by Yet Another CVE
Another maintainer of an open-source software project has decided to no longer actively update IP address parsing utilities used widely by JavaScript developers ...