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Quarkus optimizes Java for serverless, containerized cloud environments
It’s been 25 years since Java first made developers’ lives easier, promising cross-platform compatibility with its “write once, run anywhere” tagline. Thanks to its open-source roots, the language has evolved to keep up with the speed of innovation over those years, and it is still one of the most used programming languages worldwide. But retaining ...
DevOps teams adopt tools that facilitate autonomy and collaboration as members work remotely
How do DevOps teams maintain the speed of their workflows as they close out the chaos of 2020 and head into the as-yet-unknown working environment of 2021? The answer, according to a panel of experts, is combining practicality and creativity using tools not just to measure performance, but to advance collaboration and identify anti-patterns that ...
Agile approach helps British Telecom align DevOps to customer solutions
There’s a “telephone” effect that can happen in the software development process. The customer communicates a problem that information technology sets out to solve, but the delivered solution doesn’t match those original requirements. “The testing team or the delivery team in IT think they’ve done a great job … but then our customers are saying, ‘Well, ...
It’s a new age for IT as BizOps unites the industry behind its true purpose
As DevOps melds the diverse cultures of developers and operations, a new cultural mindset is emerging that joins business and information technology into one. “BizOps is really about putting a lens on this critical element … that we need to fuse business and IT; that IT needs to transform itself to recognize that it’s this ...
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‘Spiritual colocation’ is key to success for dispersed developer teams
When the world went remote in March due to the pandemic, the developer community reaction was immediate and fast. Now, with work-from-home measures set to continue for the long haul, teams are facing burnout as their COVID emergency response turns into a months-long test of endurance. “If you’ve ever run a marathon, the first mile or ...
Data cloud pros are their own ‘customer zero’
There’s a saying about “eating your own dog food” … or as some companies prefer, “drinking your own champagne.” It’s an important measure of a company’s product; after all, if the company doesn’t use what it’s selling, why should you? Giving an example of dogfooding to the extreme is data-warehouse-as-a cloud service provider (and monster ...
Snowflake’s data cloud targets siloed data to enable faster, cheaper analysis for data insights
The adoption of cloud computing technology has made data a business-critical asset. It’s also broken down the traditional silos within companies, both technologically and culturally. But, ironically, the shift to software as a service has inadvertently built new silos, locking data within applications, data centers and cloud regions. “It’s incredibly hard for data science teams ...
How choosing the unexpected helped shape Snowflake
Snowflakes are unique. And although Snowflake Inc. was named for its founders’ love of the ski slopes rather than its innovative database, Snowflake is unlike any other cloud data platform around. Setting the stage for the start of Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit, Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, asked three of Snowflake’s ...
CNCF Inclusive Naming Initiative provides framework to eliminate divisive terminology in code
Over the years, software engineers have selected terminology to describe the coding world they created. Unfortunately, unconscious biases seeped into the process and problematic descriptors have become embedded into computer programming language. The issue has been recognized for some time, but the industry has lacked a coordinated plan to instigate nomenclature change. Now, under the leadership ...
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At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, open-source community celebrates mainstream success
As KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA kicks off for another year, hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, reflect on the virtual event, remember former Cloud Native Computing Foundation Executive Director Dan Kohn and discuss what the future holds for the CNCF now that the mainstream has embraced open-source. “I want to say Dan, Godspeed,” said theCUBE host John ...