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Python Mulls a Change in Version Numbering
A Python core maintainer is lobbying to change the way the Python programming language numbers its releases. Hugo van Kemenade, who will be the release manager for the upcoming Python 3.14 and 3.15...
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Smooth Sailing for KubeFlow 1.9 Thanks to CNCF, Red Hat Support
Since last year, the open source MLOps platform KubeFlow has benefitted from a number of powerful new benefactors, including the Cloud Native Computing Community for open governance, and Red Hat,...
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What GitHub Pull Requests Reveal about Your Team’s Dev Habits
Overwhelmed by duplicate issues being filed on your GitHub project? Or by competing pull requests that are chewing up your team’s time? Your communication style, or way of delegating work, may be...
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Canonical Offers LTS ‘Distroless’ Containerized Apps for K8s
Canonical is expanding Long Term Support (LTS) beyond its flagship Ubuntu Linux distribution, promising to provide 12-year security support for any Docker-packaged open source software. These...
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How To Manage 45 Billion Client Records With Aerospike
When your operations outgrow the capabilities of a single database, what are your options? For the Berlin-based mobile measurement service provider Adjust, the answer came with Aerospike, a real-time,...
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RustLang’s Semantic Versioning Still Breaks Too Many Apps
Is Semantic Versioning still the best way to mark the new releases of software packages? The Rust community may be finding some challenges around this industrywide approach. In a survey of 1,000 most...
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Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative
VMware customers frustrated with their licensing costs after last year’s Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware have a new option: Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK). “The world is looking for...
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Showdown at the Lakehouse: Databricks Muscles Up With Tabular
A data warehouse is where you store structured historic data. Most organizations, once buying into the value of Big Data, found that all their information couldn’t be confined in a relational...
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Upgraded MySQL Crashes on Restart: Percona
We all love upgrading to a fresh version of our favorite software, but large-scale MySQL users may want to hold off on updating to the latest build of that database system (v9.0) until after a severe...
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Valkey Will Not Just Be a Redis Retread
Think again if you’ve assumed the Linux Foundation’s Valkey project will just be a clone of the Redis database. The project’s maintainers — liberated from years of Redis’ tight leadership — want to...
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Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today
In 2001, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer complained that “Linux is a cancer.” The future Los Angeles Clippers owner was referring to how Linux’s open source license — The General Public License —...
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Debian Retools APT for Better Dependency Management
“The stuff we got we don’t need, and the stuff we need we don’t got,” an old Army supply sergeant used to bitch at us back in our military days. And certainly these days, many a system administrator...
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AWS Discontinues Git-Hosting Service CodeCommit
As part of an apparent effort to clean house, Amazon Web Services will pull the plug on its git-based source control service, AWS CodeCommit. “After giving it a lot of thought, we made the decision to...
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Netflix Open Sources Maestro, a Next-Gen Data Workflow Engine
Video and gaming streaming service Netflix has released as open source the workflow orchestrator that its army of data scientists and analysts use every day to understand user behaviors and other...
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Kafka 3.8 Brings Faster Startups to Java Developers
Java developers who wrangle with Kafka are getting some love from the new release of the open source data streaming platform. The project has packaged the latest version, Kafka 3.8, in a GraalVM, a...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Formats Output to Developer Queries
OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT Large Language Model Generative AI service, has released a tool that will return query results in the exact format specified by users. This has been the...
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With eLxr, Wind River Brings Debian Linux to the Edge
Long-time embedded systems provider Wind River Software has launched an enterprise-grade Linux distribution aimed for a new generation of edge deployments. Rather than upgrade the company’s Wind River...
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OpsMill Infrahub Automates Infrastructure as Code with GitOps
“Managing network infrastructure around the globe is a pain,” said Damien Garros, OpsMill CEO and co-founder, in an interview with TNS. “I had to build my own software. There was no other option.”...
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NIST Secures Encryption for a Time After Classical Computing
How do you secure your secrets against a technology so powerful it hasn’t even been invented yet? This is the challenge the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology took on, in an effort to...
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Meta Open Sources DCPerf, a Benchmark for Hyperscale Workloads
Stymied by the limits of the standard data center benchmarks, social media giant Meta, formerly Facebook, developed its own set of performance tests, called DCPerf, to measure the performance...
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