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By John K. Waters
The decade-long battle between Google and Oracle over software copyright and fair use came to an end last week with the Supreme Court finding for Google. Two industry experts comment on the legal and ethical issues in the case and the potential consequences of the decision.
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By John K. Waters
The 4th annual Call for Code Global Challenge, which invites software developers from around the world to create open-source solutions to combat climate change, got underway this week.
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By John K. Waters
Netflix has open sourced its Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework for standalone and federated GraphQL services.
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By John K. Waters
The up-and-coming programming language, Rust, gained a kind of official status this week with the formation of the Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit steward of the open-source language and ecosystem.
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By John K. Waters
Business process automation and optimization tools provider Bonitasoft announces milestone release of the Bonita Platform with new open-source features.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation's move to Europe continues apace with the formal establishment last week of its new international non-profit association in Brussels, Belgium.
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By John K. Waters
Intel's distribution of the OpenVINO toolkit provides features that take inference beyond computer vision into new use cases.
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By John K. Waters
Software development and collaboration tools provider Atlassian has announced four new features in its Jira Software Cloud designed to allow developers to visualize and measure progress "from idea through to production" across Atlassian and third-party tools.
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By John K. Waters
Azul Systems and Payara have extended their agreement to ship Azul's Zulu Enterprise builds of OpenJDK with Payara Platform Enterprise.
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By John K. Waters
SmartBear releases the SwaggerHub extension for Visual Studio Code.
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With Rust becoming a bigger part of its development backbone, AWS is seeking to bring more Rust engineers into its ranks.
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By John K. Waters
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation published the results of its 2020 survey of members of the global cloud native community, "taking the pulse" of that community to provide some clarity on where and how cloud native technologies are begin adopted.
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By John K. Waters
Linus Torvalds this week announced the first release candidate of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel (Linux 5.10-rcl), a release that also marks the end of the feature merge window for this EOY 2020 kernel.
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By John K. Waters
New security solution surfaces vulnerabilities in third-party code used in the development of custom applications.
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By John K. Waters
Online course provider Pluralsight made numerous announcements at its Pluralsight LIVE virtual event last week around its technology skills and engineering management platform, unveiled a new strategic partnership, and announced a key acquisition.
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By John K. Waters
"Call for Code for Racial Justice" calls on the international community of hundreds of thousands of developers to contribute to solutions to confront racial inequalities.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub announced the general availability of its new command-line tool, GitHub CLI, which edges Hub to become the official CLI tool.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft enables continuous developer-driven "fuzzing" with newly open sourced tool.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub's upgrade this year to Ruby 2.7 was a massive, months-long undertaking that required a serious investment in engineering resources and time.
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By John K. Waters
Lots of Red Hat news from the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020 Virtual event this week. Here's a roundup of their top announcements.
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By John K. Waters
Cloud security provider Accurics announced a major update of its free and open-source Terrascan static code analyzer for devs building Infrastructure as Code.
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By John K. Waters
Micronaut is a JVM-based, full-stack Java framework developed by the creators of the Grails framework, and designed to provide developers with a polyglot tool for building modular, easily testable JVM applications with the Java, Kotlin, and Groovy languages.
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A group of leading tech industry heavy weights that includes Microsoft, IBM, and Google, announced the formation of a new software foundation to consolidates industry efforts to improve the security of open-source software.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat announces the beta availability of the latest minor release of the RHEL 8 platform.
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By John K. Waters
GitHub today launched a new publicly accessible repository designed to allow anyone to look into all of the platform’s upcoming releases.