Dawn Foster
The New Stack
United Kingdom
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Aging Linux Kernel Developers Seek Fresh Talent
Over the past few years, there has been a concern within the Linux kernel community about the aging population of existing kernel developers. With the Linux kernel being under development for more than 25 years, many of the established leaders in the project are in their 40s and 50s, roughly the same age as Linux … → Read More
Aging Linux Kernel Developers Seek Fresh Talent
Over the past few years, there has been a concern within the Linux kernel community about the aging population of existing kernel developers. With the Linux kernel being under development for more than 25 years, many of the established leaders in the project are in their 40s and 50s, roughly the same age as Linux … → Read More
Who Contributes to the Linux Kernel?
The Linux kernel is an enormous open source project that has been in development for more than 25 years. While many people tend to think of open source projects as being developed by passionate volunteers, the Linux kernel is mostly developed by people who are paid by their employers to contribute. According to The Linux … → Read More
Developer Relations: More than Traveling the World and Buying People Beer
Developer relations is one of those roles that has different names and meanings that vary depending on the person talking about it. At DevRelCon in London on December 8, presenters referred to this job as “developer relations,” “technical evangelism,” “developer advocacy,” and “community management.” But, regardless of what you call it, most companies throughout the … → Read More
In Configuration Management, Community Matters
Configuration management might not be as sexy as some of the other topics we cover, but it still plays a critical role in the process for deploying, maintaining and monitoring almost every complex system. One of the major threads throughout the talks at the Config Management Camp, held in Berlin on Nov. 15 was the importance … → Read More
How to Avoid Burnout Managing an Open Source Project
Regardless of where you work in the stack, if you work with open source software, there’s likely been a time when you faced burnout and other unhealthy side effects related to your work on open source projects. A few of the talks at OSCON Europe addressed this darker side of working in open source head-on. … → Read More
Buggy Software Foils Dreams of Infrastructure-as-Code
Many of us think of infrastructure-as-code as something of a given, or at least a possibility of how things could be done. But at OSCON Europe, Joe Damato, who is the founder and CEO of the Packagecloud hosting provider, discussed some of the challenges and pitfalls of trying to programmatically manage infrastructure software. “People are using infrastructure … → Read More
'Thanks for Using Containers!' ... Said No CEO Ever
“We think we’re going to get magical powers when we use other people’s servers,” said Casey West, Principal Technologist for Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry platform, during his OSCON Europe talk, in which he provided a humorous, and insightful look at how the CEO sees, or doesn’t see — or honestly doesn’t care about — the vast majority of the … → Read More
Webhooks Provide an Efficient Alternative to API Polling
Popular websites like GitHub and Slack don’t just offer webhooks because they are a convenient way to inform their users of new events, webhooks are also a way for these sites to maintain stability. At OSCON Europe last week, Lorna Mitchell, a developer advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services, provided some insight into “The wonderful world of … → Read More
Seven (More) Deadly Sins of Microservices
It seems like the development community is quite excited about microservices these days, but at OSCON Europe, Daniel Bryant, who is chief scientist at OpenCredo, continued to point out some of the mistakes that architects and administrators routinely make while adopting to this new “Loosely coupled service oriented architecture with bounded contexts,” as Adrian Cockcroft described microservices.… → Read More
LinuxCon 2016: Evaluating Containers For Production Work
Containers may be one of the hottest technologies on the block, but while they are a great solution for some things, they aren’t the perfect solution for every implementation, and you still need to think carefully about how containers fit within your entire infrastructure architecture with careful thought put into how these containers are developed, … → Read More
NGINX's Plan to Create a $1 Billion Business from its Open Source Software
NGINX Inc. has a set an ambitious goal for itself: To become a $1 billion company within the next eight to 10 years. It will not be an easy task, especially given that its biggest competitor may be its own well-engineered open source software. For NGINX, the key to success will be to successfully get customers from … → Read More
NextCloud Revives ownCloud's Open Source Cloud Storage Software
Typically when an open source software provider is having business difficulties or drops its open source project, the software itself is viewed as suspect by the enterprise, which looks for stability and long term support above all else. The newly launched Nextcloud, which is picking up the open source storage software from the struggling ownCloud, … → Read More
Three Questions to Ask About DevOps Metrics and Measurements
DevOps is all the rage these days. Everyone is talking about it, and companies are jumping on the practice to automate their development and deployment processes. However, DevOps is complicated, and there is no one right approach ideal for every team. How you should measure success will also depend on your situation, and there are … → Read More