Long-time programmer/researcher/former MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards writes a blog called “Alarming Development: Dispatches from the User Liberation Front.” He began the new year by arguing that software “is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996.” Slashdot reader tonique summarizes Edwards’ argument:
In 1996 there were “LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle, Smalltalk, Windows, C++,…
Tag: Kubernetes
Canonical Introduces High-Availability Micro-Kubernetes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If you’ve been hiding under a rock — and who could blame you these days? — you may have missed how totally Kubernetes now dominates container orchestration. One way to quickly get up to speed on Kubernetes is with Canonical’s MicroK8s. This is an easy-to-run and install mini-version of Kubernetes. And now Canonical…
Report: Google Plans to Relinquish Control of Open-Source Project Knative
“Google LLC is reportedly planning to relinquish direct control over its open-source Knative project to a five-seat steering committee that will have rules to prevent any single organization from having more than two seats,” reports SiliconANGLE. “The plan is designed to stymie criticism that Google is secretly planning to retain control over key open-source projects it has developed, according to a…
Linux Milestone: EdX’s Free ‘Intro to Linux’ Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments
The Linux Foundation has announced that its free Introduction to Linux training course on edX has surpassed one million enrollments. The course helps students develop a good working knowledge of Linux using both the graphical interface and command line across the major Linux distribution families. No prior knowledge or experience is required, making the course a popular first step for individuals…
‘The Future of American Industry Depends On Open Source Tech’
An anonymous reader shares an opinion piece from Wired, written by Kevin Xu and Jordan Schneider. Xu is the author of Interconnected, investor and advisor of open source startups at OSS Capital, and served in the Obama White House. Schneider is the author of the ChinaTalk newsletter and host of the ChinaTalk podcast, posted on Lawfare. From the report: Open source…
Countering Google, Microsoft Promises Its Own Open Source Service Mesh for the CNCF
“As controversy rages over the governance of Google’s Istio service mesh, Microsoft has seen an opportunity to offer a simple and truly open alternative,” reports InfoWorld:
Microsoft has announced that it will release its own open source service mesh — called Open Service Mesh (OSM) — and transfer it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as soon as possible. This sets…
Open Source Proponents React to Google’s ‘Open Usage Commons’
Google’s announcement of a new open source initiative called the Open Usage Commons “caused some consternation among other open source proponents,” according to Diginomica: IBM’s reaction is typical. In a statement, the company said that “the creation of the Open Usage Commons (OUC) is disappointing because it doesn’t live up to the community’s expectation for open governance… Without this vendor-neutral approach…
IBM Job Ad Calls For a Minimum 12 Years’ Experience With Kubernetes — Which is Six Years Old
IBM’s Global Technology Services has posted a job ad calling for candidates with a “minimum 12+ years’ experience in Kubernetes administration and management.” From a report: Which is a little odd because the first GitHub commit for the project was made on June 7, 2014. And the feature freeze for version 1.0 was announced on May 22, 2015. Sharp-minded Reg readers…
Why One of Kubernetes’ Creators Moved From Google To Microsoft
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: One of the three Google employees who created Kubernetes — the open source container-orchestration platform now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — was software engineer Brendan Burns. But in 2016 Burns became an engineer at Microsoft (where since March he’s been a corporate vice president at Microsoft). This week in a new podcast interview…