In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.
Rezilion Adds Windows Support to Dynamic SBOM Tool
Rezilion has added support for Windows applications to its tool for dynamically generating software bills of materials (SBOMs). Rezilion CEO Liran Tancman said in addition to existing support for Linux applications, it’s now possible to analyze all the components that make up a Windows application runtime environment in real-time. That capability also makes it possible […]
Foundation Proposes Advancing eBPF Adoption Across Multiple OSes
The eBPF Foundation, which proposes to advance adoption of an approach that enables sandbox programs to run faster at the kernel level, is being launched today as an arm of the Linux Foundation. The technology known as eBPF was originally developed for Linux. The eBPF Foundation is now committed to expanding use of eBPF across […]
Puppet Deepens Windows Integration
Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously and offering to assist organizations seeking to deploy the open source Chocolately package manager. In addition, Puppet has extended its support for […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Apple Adds Fuel to ITSM Fire
Apple’s acquisition this week of Fleetsmith, a provider of IT service management (ITSM) tools for Apple devices, is reigniting a fierce debate over how best to manage endpoints in heterogeneous IT environments. Fleetsmith, along with rivals including Jamf Software and IBM, provides ITSM tools that only manage Apple devices. The company argues that the IT […]
GitLab Updates Core CI/CD Platform
GitLab this week delivered an update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform that promises to make pipelines more efficient and easier to manage, in addition to making it easier to set up pipelines in Windows environments. Version 12.7 of the core GitLab platform adds support for Parent-Child Pipelines and Pipeline Resource Groups. Parent-Child Pipelines […]
CircleCI Extends CI/CD Reach to Windows Platforms
CircleCI today announced it will make available its continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform available on a variety of Windows platforms. Matt Wyman, vice president of product for CircleCI, said the decision to support Windows stems from recent Microsoft DevOps initiatives, most notably its move to acquire GitHub. As Microsoft invests more time and […]
Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?
Which operating system (OS) is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? That’s a weighty question. Talk about which OS is “best” for any purpose is always controversial. I’m not going to stick my neck out by saying that one OS is definitively better than others when it comes to doing DevOps work. […]
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the friction with the release of VMware Fusion Pro 10, a desktop virtualization offering for Apple Macs that now supports REST application programming interfaces […]