Trends come and go. I’m old enough to have been persuaded, twice, about the good sense of flared jeans. I had a space hopper. I had a Betamax video player. Fads and cool ideas are a constant white noise, vying for our attention. Some will stick, some won’t. And that’s true in technology. No-one admits […]
Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK
Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […]
DevSecOps: Fortanix Adds Open Source Rust SDK to Build Encrypted Apps
There’s a lot of focus these days on DevSecOps as part of an effort to fix what’s generally acknowledged as a broken cybersecurity paradigm. But instead of trying to ensure every potential vulnerability is addressed before an application is deployed, another idea is gaining momentum among the DevOps community: Build applications that are secure in […]
Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
As we close out 2018, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. Well-written code is a work of art. Always has been, always will be. A programmer pulls a thought pretty much out of nowhere […]
Using Open Source Languages Effectively in the Enterprise
Open source languages are part of almost every business these days. In fact, according to Opensource.com, open source will be the driving force behind a great number of technology innovations due to its pervasive use. From development to quality assurance (QA) to DevOps, all kinds of coders have embraced open source languages. In doing so, […]
The State of the Kotlin Programming Language in 2018
Pusher, the communications and collaboration API provider, recently released the findings of its “State of Kotlin 2018” research report. Over the past 24 months, adoption and use of the Kotlin programming language among developers has seen tremendous growth. Pusher has seen this growth firsthand, with more developers using Kotlin while building applications with the company’s […]
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, when the Agile methodology is utilized properly, a bottleneck often occurs during the frequent operations and deployment phases. New fixes and updates are […]
5 Resources for JavaScript Developers
Javascript (JS) is one of the most widely used and beloved programming languages in history. This can be attributed to its fairly light learning curve and impressive functionality. Designed by Brendan Eich in 1995, the language has seen steady gains in use for more than 20 years. JS itself is a high-level and weakly typed […]
DevOps Challenges in C/C++ Projects
“C++ is not only the most powerful language in terms of performance, but it’s also a great language! It has true generics, it is expressive, and one of the most loved languages out there by programmers.” — Diego Rodriguez-Losada, SW Engineer at JFrog and creator of Conan.io This very powerful language that has unbeatable performance […]
NodeSource, AppDynamics Ally for Node.js DevOps
The prevalence of Node.js as the most widely deployed instance of JavaScript is putting a lot of pressure on DevOps teams to find ways to automate the management of Node.js applications. To provide the visibility needed to achieve that goal, NodeSource has announced it has integrated its N|Solid development environment with the application monitoring tools […]