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OpenSource.com | February 14, 2018
A Better Marketing Plan for Your Open Source Software Project
Open source software (OSS) marketing today is unique: it’s a process of co-creating and co-executing a marketing plan with an entire community—developers, end users and vendors. This makes it distinctly different than most traditional technology marketing efforts, which generally focuses on...
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Tech Radar | February 14, 2018
The Best Rising Linux Distros in 2018
Linux is built for tinkering and experimentation, which means it’s always morphing and changing. New distros are popping up all the time, because all it takes is a little bit of determination, time and effort to create a custom operating system.
Not all of them hit the mark – there are stacks of...
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The New Stack | February 14, 2018
The History of the Service Mesh
The idea of a service mesh is still a fairly new concept for most people, so it may seem a little funny to already be talking about its history. But at this point Linkerd has been running in production by companies around the world for over 18 months — an eternity in the cloud-native ecosystem —...
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CodeMentor | February 14, 2018
Julia vs R vs Python: Simple Optimization
In this post, I will try to compare and contrast Julia, R, and Python via a simple maximum likelihood optimization problem which is motivated by a problem from the credit risk domain and is discussed in more detail in this post.
TL;DR
For such a simple optimization problem, R, Julia, and Python/...
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ZDNet | February 13, 2018
The Most Popular Linux Desktop Programs Are...
LinuxQuestions, one of the largest internet Linux groups with 550,000 members, has just posted the results from its latest survey of desktop Linux users. With approximately 10,000 voters in the survey, the desktop Linux distribution pick was: Ubuntu.
While Ubuntu has long a been popular Linux...
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The New Stack | February 13, 2018
How to Measure the Efficacy of Your Container Security Solution with Real World Exploits
There has never been a better time to be a DevOps engineer. Compared to traditional web stacks, containerization has dramatically streamlined the task of deploying web services such as databases, key/value stores and servers. Furthermore, container orchestration tools, like Google’s Kubernetes and...
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Enterprise Storage Forum | February 13, 2018
What is Software Defined Storage?
The concept of "software defined storage" (SDS) seems to be everywhere, if you read about the data storage industry or explore storage products. However, the software defined storage definition remains a little vague – or perhaps more than a little vague.
Most people seem to agree that at first,...
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Datamation | February 13, 2018
How the Public Cloud Drives Emerging Technologies
Cloud computing is, to be sure, today's leading driver of emerging tech.The next big battles among the public cloud vendors will center around emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, virtual reality and blockchain.
By now, most enterprise leaders understand the...
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The Linux Foundation | February 12, 2018
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This new ebook covers the open source audit process and highlights important considerations for code compliance, preparation, and documentation.
Open Source Audits in Merger and Acquisition Transactions: Get the Free Ebook
The influence of open source software on every aspect of business has been on the rise for years, and it should come as no surprise that its influence during merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions has grown as well. In particular, open source audits are part of required due diligence in M...
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Gravitational Blog | February 12, 2018
The Full-Time Job of Keeping Up with Kubernetes
There is no such thing as Kubernetes LTS (and that’s fantastic).
TL;DR - Unabated 1.xx major “minor” releases of “vanilla” upstream Kubernetes every three months could continue forever. You have to keep up, while also paying close attention to Kubernetes API object versioning. This relentless pace...
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