The Linux Foundation Partners with Girls in Tech to Increase Diversity in Open Source

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September 26, 2016

One of the great strengths of open source is that it provides opportunities for everyone. Regardless of background, age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation or religion, everyone can benefit from and contribute to some of the most important technologies ever developed.

Yet we know that many groups remain underrepresented in the open source community, which is why The Linux Foundation engages in efforts such as providing diversity scholarships for our training and events and sponsoring organizations such as Women Who Code, Code.org, Blacks in Technology, All Star Code and more.

As part of this ongoing effort, The Linux Foundation is proud to announce we have entered into a partnership with Girls in Tech, a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology.

This partnership will provide Girls in Tech with free and discounted tickets to a range of Linux Foundation events, free space to exhibit at those events and/or to host hackathons and bootcamps, and more. Our goal is to help more girls and women to become involved in, and contribute back to, the open source community.

The 15 events covered in this partnership include:

• MesosCon Europe 2016
• Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016
• OpenDaylight Summit 2016
• ContainerCon/LinuxCon Europe 2016
• Embedded Linux Conference/OpenIoT Summit Europe 2016
• CloudNativeCon/KubeCon 2016
• Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe 2016
• MesosCon China 2016
• Node Interactive North America 2016
• Embedded Linux Conference/OpenIoT Summit North America 2017
• Open Networking Summit 2017
• Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America 2017
• Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2017
• OpenDaylight Summit 2017
• Open Source Summit North America 2017
• MesosCon North America 2017

Those interested in participating should follow Girls in Tech on social media for more information and offers.

There’s always more we can do to improve diversity in the open source and technology communities in general. Partnerships such as this one are just one element of that effort, and we encourage everyone in the community to contribute their time, energy and resources to making open source accessible to everyone. Learn more about The Linux Foundation’s community giving initiatives.

OPNFV Begins Its Colorado Trail

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Light Reading

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September 26, 2016

OPNFV today issued its third software release, ending the agonizing six-month period in which folks had to pronounce and spell Brahmaputra. (See OPNFV Issues Third Software Release.)

This latest release continues the river theme but is sensibly named Colorado: It has other advantages as well, namely support for key features such as security, IPv6, service function chaining (SFC) testing, virtual private networks and more.

In addition, Colorado is laying some key groundwork for what lies ahead as the industry comes to terms with the MANO (management and network orchestration) dilemma, says Heather Kirksey, Open Platform for NFV Project Inc. ‘s executive director.

The Best Way to Develop Software with Effective Security

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OpenSource.com

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September 26, 2016

Regardless of the level at which you’re doing your programming, security is going to get in the way. No amount of application abstraction or modern development process seems capable of shielding developers from the barriers raised by security. It’s pretty hard not to hate security when it doesn’t seem to add any intrinsic value, and often gets in the way of providing a delightful user experience. To top it off products can get hacked anyway, in spite of any and all work you do to make your products secure.

Casey will be speaking at LinuxCon Berlin on October 4.

Writing Your First Postmortem

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Mathias Lafeldt

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September 26, 2016

I’m one of the operators of Wonderland, Jimdo’s in-house PaaS for microservices.

Two weeks ago, on September 5, I did something embarrassing at work.

We were debugging a broken deployment of our central API service. This API is nothing less than the entry point for managing all container-based services running on our platform, including most of our own system services (by virtue of dogfooding).

In an attempt to fix the problem we were experiencing — our API service failed to scale to a certain number of replicas — I deleted what I believed to be a duplicate instance of the corresponding ECS service in the AWS Management Console…

That turned out to be a mistake.

East-West Encryption: The Next Security Frontier?

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SDx Central

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September 26, 2016

Microsegmentation, a method to create secure, virtual connections in software-defined data centers (SDDCs), has already emerged as one of the primary reasons to embrace network virtualization (NV). But some vendors believe that East-West encryption of traffic inside the data center could be the next stop in data-center security.

For example, VMware says it is looking at encrypting East-West traffic inside the data center, adding another layer ofsecurity to the SDDC. Why is that important? Today, most firewalls operate on the perimeter of the data center – either guarding or encrypting data leaving the data center for the WAN. And some security products may encrypt data at rest inside the data center. But encrypting the traffic in motion between servers inside the data center – known in the business as the East-West traffic – is not something that’s typically done.

Unpicking the Gordian Knot Around Blockchain Patents

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TechCrunch

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September 26, 2016

Earliest mentions of the term “bitcoin” in patent titles and abstracts date back to around 2009, while the term “blockchain” begins to appear in patent titles from around 2011. As of June 22, 2016, there were 492 published patent families directed to the theme of blockchain and 192 relating to bitcoin.

Patent applications filed over the last year and a half would not be visible in these statistics, and it is expected that significant numbers of new patent applications connected to these themes have been filed in that period. The numbers we are seeing likely represent the tip of the iceberg.

It’s tricky to say exactly who’s filing these patents, but, anecdotally, the early-stage business community is out-innovating the incumbent banking organizations by some measure, and are likely to be responsible for much of this innovation.

Learn How to Speed Up Websites Using Nginx and Gzip Module

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Tecmint

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September 26, 2016

Even in a time when significant Internet speeds are available throughout the globe, every effort to optimize website load times is welcome with open arms.

In this article, we will discuss a method to increase transfer speeds by reducing the file sizes through compression. This approach brings an extra benefit in that it also reduces the amount of bandwidth used in the process, and makes it cheaper for the website owner who pays for it.

To accomplish the goal stated in the above paragraph, we will use Nginx and its built-in gzip module in this article.

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DevOps for Pointy-Haired Bosses by Victoria Blessing, Texas A&M University

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The Linux Foundation

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September 23, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i-daDtvU0s?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6qBYLdrGWFHbsolIdJIjLnN

Victoria Blessing arms you with the basics of selling your boss on something, not only as it relates to DevOps, but in general.

What is DevOps? Bridget Kromhout Explains

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Dawn Foster

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September 23, 2016

Bridget Kromhout can be found traveling and speaking at conferences on a variety of DevOps topics. She is a global core organizer for devopsdays and is on the program committee for Velocity in addition to organizing local tech meetups in Minneapolis. She is a Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal and a host of the Arrested DevOps podcast.

Linux.com: Why are so many organizations embracing DevOps?

Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Technologist at Pivotal and core organizer for devopsdays.

Bridget Kromhout: Turns out software is a competitive advantage. As traditional enterprises consider the very real possibility of being “disrupted” (whatever that means in their context), they look for inspiration to the practices of high-performing organizations.

Linux.com: Why are individuals interested in participating?

Bridget: Shiny new tools are a typical draw because résumé-driven development is totally a thing. Once in this space, though, many of us find that better collaboration makes for a happier work life.

Linux.com: What’s the primary advantage of DevOps?

Bridget: DevOps offers the ability to collaborate across teams to reach the organization’s goals. Removing barriers allows for swift reaction to changing circumstances.

Linux.com: What is the overwhelming hurdle?

Bridget: Change is hard. The future may be here, but it’s not evenly distributed. Organizational fiefdoms, long-term contracts, and the classic fear-uncertainty-doubt combo all mean that a DevOps transformation is definitely going to be an ongoing journey, not a ticky box on this quarter’s to-dos.

Linux.com: What advice would you give to people who want to get started in DevOps?

Bridget: I’ve written extensively on this topic, but the short version is: join your local community. There’s probably a meetup or a devopsdays near you, and the DevOps community is replete with people who want to help and share.

Read more Q&As with DevOps experts Gene Kim, Kris Buytaert, Michael Ducy, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Gareth Rushgrove and Mark Imbriaco.

This Week in Open Source News: Linux Foundation Offering Free OpenStack Training, GitHub Wants More Business Users, & More

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The Linux Foundation

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September 23, 2016

This week in open source and Linux news, a new OpenStack course from The Linux Foundation and edX is offered, GitHub’s CEO sets user goals, and more! Keep on top of the latest Linux and OSS headlines with this weekly digest!

1) The Linux Foundation and edX offering a free OpenStack course.

Learn How to Deploy OpenStack For Free– CIO

2) GitHub CEO Chris Wansrath spoke at the company’s Universe conference about business user goals.

GitHub’s New Features Aim for Business and Open-Source Users– ComputerWorld

3) The Hyperledger Project reaches out to the public blockchain community.

Hyperledger and the Linux Foundation Opens Doors to the Public Blockchain Space– CryptoCoins News

4) Shares of Linux and open-source software vendor Red Hat (RHT) are up $3.37, or over 4%, at $80.41

Red Hat Rising: Bulls Breath Sigh of Relief as Linux Rebounds– Barron’s

5) Linux issue on Lenovo laptops is, in fact, due to Lenovo’s RAID storage configuration, not a malicious move by Microsoft.

UPDATE: Microsoft Isn’t Really Blocking Laptops From Installing Linux, Lenovo Says– The Next Web