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Apache Kafka, a popular Big Data component for distributed data streaming, is getting an automation boost from a new open source offering from LinkedIn called Cruise Control.
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The open source Go programming language is out in version 1.9, which features type aliases among many other new features and changes.
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Companies need open source skills so much that nearly half of respondents to a new survey said they would pay people (especially developers) to become open source certified.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle's proposal to move Java EE to an open source foundation drew mostly positive reactions from the enterprise Java community.
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By John K. Waters
The API is designed to make it easy to set and manage environment configurations for enterprise Java microservices.
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Stack Overflow, analyzing data from its huge developer survey, has concluded that Go and Scala skills pay off the most in the U.S.
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By John K. Waters
Company considering move "to make it more agile and responsive to changing industry and technology demands."
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By John K. Waters
The new versions of Azul's open source development and runtime platform for server-side Java applications are designed for the Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Server Processor.
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Here's an update on recent happenings in the world of Big Data analytics, featuring a new open source visualization tool from Google, a reference architecture for Big Data in the cloud and a Big Data integrator developer's edition.
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Developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Mobile Center back-end service hub can now directly update JavaScript-based apps via the CodePush service.
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"We're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio," says director of product management for Android. "We're so glad we did this."
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By John K. Waters
This year's coordinated release includes 83 open source projects comprising approximately 2 million net new lines of code (for a total of 71 million) from 287 committers and 664 contributors.
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Monaca, maker of the open source Onsen UI framework for creating HTML5 hybrid and mobile Web apps, announced a release specifically targeting JavaScript development with the increasingly popular Vue.js framework.
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The young React Native ecosystem is in a constant state of flux, making it hard to keep track of all the moving parts. Luckily, people are doing that stuff for us.
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Microsoft is shutting down its free online tool for creating Universal Windows Apps in favor of an open source replacement based on templates and wizards.
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Node.js specialist RisingStack published a new survey that shows the top paint point reported by developers working with the JavaScript-based runtime is debugging, with 17 percent of respondents spending more than five hours per week fixing things.
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"Python is now the No. 1 tool being used by developers and tech pros, followed by Git and Visual Studio."
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Despite the popularity of open source software development, the growing movement is plagued by poor documentation and negative interactions -- primarily rudeness -- among developers, according to a big new survey from GitHub.
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Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.
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For Angular, Vue, React and more, just type a few keystrokes to quickly insert a small block of code functionality to speed up your JavaScript development in VS Code.
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The microservices approach to software development -- chaining together loosely coupled services to create larger applications -- just got a boost from Google, IBM and Lyft.
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By John K. Waters
Android developers were already able to use Kotlin through a plug-in, but from now on it'll ship alongside Java and C++ with the official Android IDE.
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Google is open sourcing the client libraries of its Firebase mobile/Web development platform, which supports apps with a host of back-end services such as the popular Crashlytics crash reporting tool.
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GitHub today announced new integration with the open source Atom code editor and a beta of its GitHub Desktop app, with both providing developers with new ways of working with the company's software development platform.
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The sorry state of open source security was further revealed by Google, which reported its fuzz testing tool has found hundreds of potential security vulnerabilities in the five months since it was launched.