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O'Reilly | October 12, 2018
Best Design Practices to Get the Most out of Your API
Practical techniques to ensure developers can actually do the things you want them to do using your API.
In the previous chapters, we gave an overview of various approaches for transmitting data via your web API. Now that you're familiar with the landscape of transport and have an understanding of...
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The New Stack | October 12, 2018
Add It Up: Test Automation Is Not a Tooling Story
Test automation tools are not used very often. Only 16 percent of performance test cases are executed with test automation tools, and security tests are being completed at the same frequency according to the World Quality Report (WQR) 2018-2019, which surveyed 1,700 IT decision makers (ITDMs) at...
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ZDNet | October 11, 2018
Microsoft Open-Sources Its Patent Portfolio
By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.
Several years ago, I said the one thing Microsoft has to do -- to convince everyone in open source that it's truly an open-source supporter -- is stop...
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IT'S FOSS | October 10, 2018
LinuxBoot for Servers: Enter Open Source, Goodbye Proprietary UEFI
LinuxBoot is an Open Source alternative to Proprietary UEFI firmware. It was released last year and is now being increasingly preferred by leading hardware manufacturers as default firmware. Last year, LinuxBoot was warmly welcomedinto the Open Source family by The Linux Foundation.
This project...
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Eric Brown | October 10, 2018 airtame_2_product_shot.jpg
Airtame 2 is a Linux-based content streaming device that features improved performance and a totally rewritten code base. (Image courtesy: Airtame)
Linux-Based Airtame 2 Offers an Enterprise Alternative to Chromecast
One category that often gets overlooked in the discussion of Linux computers is the market for HDMI dongle devices that plug into your TV to stream, mirror, or cast content from your laptop or mobile device. Yesterday, Google announced an extensively leaked third-gen version of its market-leading,...
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HPE Blog | October 10, 2018
DNS Security Still an Issue
DNS security is a decades-old issue that shows no signs of being fully resolved. Here's a quick overview of some of the problems with proposed solutions and the best way to move forward.
...After many years of availability, DNSSEC has yet to attain significant adoption, even though any security...
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OpenSource.com | October 10, 2018
4 Best Practices for Giving Open Source Code Feedback
In the previous article I gave you tips for how to receive feedback, especially in the context of your first free and open source project contribution. Now it's time to talk about the other side of that same coin: providing feedback.
If I tell you that something you did in your contribution is "...
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Forbes | October 9, 2018 How Linux Is Changing The Face Of End-User Computing
End-user computing (EUC) is changing quickly, and dramatically. In my work, I hear just how vital it is that organizations deliver better security, manageability and user experience every day. This is creating increasing pressure on the status quo of operating systems for end-user devices: Windows...
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The New Stack | October 9, 2018
Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Serverless architecture is not needed to use Function as a Service (FaaS). In fact, 54 percent of FaaS users without production deployments say their organization does not utilize a serverless architecture, according to a survey conducted in August 2018. In comparison, 96 percent of organizations...
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Automotive World | October 8, 2018
Auto Industry’s Thirst for Software is Quenched by Open Source
“It is very surprising to people just how much open source software is used in modern software development,” observed Jeff Luszcz, Vice President of Product, Management at US software specialist Flexera, during a recent Automotive World webinar. According to Flexera research, more than 50% of all...
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