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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. For example, close to 60% of respondents are using OSS for Database and 53% for Operating Systems.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

This makes it easier to maintain, update, and monitor services without breaking other parts of the system and introducing any unnecessary downtime. Having emerged in the late 1990s, SOA is a precursor to microservices but remains a skill that can help ensure software systems remain flexible, scalable, and reusable across the organization.

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Fermyon raises $20M to build tools for cloud app dev

TechCrunch

Fermyon offers a managed cloud service, Fermyon Cloud, that allows developers to quickly build microservices, or pieces of apps that work independently, but together (e.g., if one microservice fails, it won’t bring down the others). It’s also more secure, he asserts, because it can safely execute even untrusted code. .

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

TechCrunch

The space is now at an inflection point and organizations are moving to a microservices architecture,” George said in an interview. “ Orkes has the right team to bring enterprise-grade support and cloud services to this thriving community.”

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VCs are betting big on Kubernetes: Here are 5 reasons why

TechCrunch

Internally, you have no choice — you must use Kubernetes if you are deploying microservices and containers (it’s actually not called Kubernetes inside of Google; it’s called Borg). of the top million web servers’ operating systems are Linux. I worked at Google for six years.

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Daily Crunch: Drone service Wing completes 200K commercial deliveries, partners with supermarket chain

TechCrunch

Jolla looks to cut ties with Russia : It’s tough to build an operating system if you are not a major tech platform company. Commsor has built what she describes as “an operating system to help other startups manage their communities.” OpsLevel raises $15M for microservices management : I kinda know what a microservice is.

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AWS Container Services in Cloud Computing

Blue Sentry

Transcript: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson, Senior Enterprise Architect at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS ambassador with all 11 AWS certifications. I’m often asked by IT executives how can their teams deliver their containerized applications or microservices securely, simply, and cost-effectively.

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