Category: Blog

  • Contributor awards, job hunting tips, and more OpenStack news

    [ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here’s a sampling from some of our favorites: read more [ad_2]…

  • OpenShift Commons Gathering event preview

    [ad_1] We’re just two months out from the OpenShift Commons Gathering coming up on November 7, 2016 in Seattle, Washington, co-located with KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. OpenShift Origin is a distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. Origin adds developer and operations-centric tools on top of Kubernetes to enable rapid application development, easy deployment and…

  • A $5 Linux server, open source software in China, and more news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a $5 Linux server, China’s adoption of open source software, Plasma 5.8, and more. Open source news roundup for September 18-October 1, 2016 Startup sells a stamp-sized Linux server for $5 It seems that every week a new startup…

  • Top 5: 10 tips for IoT home automation, Configuration management tools, and more

    [ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight tips for home-IoT projects, a deep dive into configuration management, tips for getting started with WordPress development, a successful middle school Linux program, and a brief introduction to animation with CSS and JavaScript. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Web animation using CSS and JavaScript To…

  • Tools for writing the next best seller

    [ad_1] Don’t you wish you could write a novel? I always did. It’s such a daunting and convoluted undertaking. How can anyone even organize and keep track of all the plots and characters? I have started a few stories, but quickly abandoned them because I just couldn’t seem to write anything cohesive that seemed worthy…

  • Changing the way we design for the web

    [ad_1] Keynote speakers for All Things Open have been announced, and we’re now just a few weeks out from the big event. Open-minded folks from tech, business, education, and many other fields will convene to hear about the fantastic things happening in the open world, from software to hardware and beyond. Rachel Nabors will keynote on……

  • Why accountability gets a bad rap

    [ad_1] Open organizations demand emphasis on accountability. This month, the open organization community at Opensource.com tackled accountability’s finer points during its regular #OpenOrgChat on Twitter. Check out the following recap—and get ready for the next chat. Q1: What is accountability? How do open organizations specifically embrace the concept? (from @brookmanville) #OpenOrgChat A1 accountability is owning…

  • What are configuration management tools?

    [ad_1] For most people, computers don’t stay the same. Software is added, removed, and updated. Configurations are changed. Think about the changes you’ve made to your computer since the first time you booted it up. Now imagine making those changes to 10, 100, or 1,000 more computers. Configuration management tools are what make implemententing and…

  • 5 new OpenStack tutorials and guides

    [ad_1] Every month, the number of things that a developer or system administrator working with cloud technologies is expected to know seems to double. There are just so many promising projects and so little time. Even just looking at the projects sitting underneath the big tent of OpenStack, the open source cloud computing project, having so…

  • Riak TS for time series analysis at scale

    [ad_1] Until recently, doing time series analysis at scale was expensive and almost exclusively the domain of large enterprises. What made time series a hard and expensive problem to tackle? Until the advent of the NoSQL database, scaling up to meet increasing velocity and volumes of data generally meant scaling hardware vertically by adding CPUs, memory, or additional…