As AI-driven development accelerates, open source software faces an uncomfortable paradox: Usage is rising while engagement, sustainability and community economics quietly erode. AI isn’t eliminating OSS, but it is reshaping how code is written, discovered and maintained. The result may not be the death of open source, but the end of its long reign as the default foundation of modern software.
Survey Sees Value But Limited Understanding of Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is emerging as method for managing DevOps at scale, but a survey suggested that many organizations are still not clear on the concept.
Standardize: It’s Not the Where. Sometimes it’s Not the What
In our industry’s attempts to follow best practices that marketers assure us we must have or we are going to lose to our biggest competitor … No, wait, we’ll lose […]
Tips For Standardizing API Life Cycle Management
Software life cycle management is becoming more critical for today’s technology-fueled organizations—because you can’t just release software into the world and expect it to work perfectly for years to come. […]
Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
This late in the game, it seems stunning to me that I have to write this, but there are plenty of you who aren’t there yet—so let’s try a different […]
DevOps Unbound EP 18 – Standardizing DevOps – TechStrong TV
Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone, welcome to another DevOps Unbound. If this is your first time catching a DevOps Unbound, welcome. DevOps Unbound is a biweekly video series where we talk […]
EP 18: Does Standardization Disrupt Innovation?
Although everyone has their own definition of DevOps, it all comes down to creating better software faster, empowering development and operations teams and delivering value to customers. However, there really isn’t a standard approach to DevOps.
Next Up: Portable CI
One thing that we’re very good at in IT is breaking new ground, coming up with ideas that work astoundingly well, getting broad adoption, then standardizing them for interoperability. When […]
We All Have to Have Standards
I was working on an e-book recently about the state of the market for certain DevOps toolsets, and got really interested in how standardized organizations are becoming. We have been […]
Standardization, De Facto Style
The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way […]
