How observability tools help with legacy software
Legacy software isn't just dusty code on mainframes. It's the stuff you wrote a few months or years ago. Observability tools help find and fix problems.
Stories by Matt Asay
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Security is hard and won’t get much easier
Security is one of the few things that will survive the budget axe but it’s increasingly clear that we can’t simply spend our way to a secure future.
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Is open source leadership helping Google?
Google’s huge commitment to open source projects shows in GitHub contributor counts, while AWS’s strategy has been making open source easy for customers to use. Who’s winning?
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The cloud ate my database
Legacy database vendors are being swallowed by the developer-friendly combo of cloud and open source offered by new players.
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The reality of cloud spending
The big cloud providers may be seeing their growth slow, and enterprise budgets may be squeezed, but CIOs are still committed to spending on cloud computing.
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Open source isn’t working for AI
What’s the point of open sourcing code that runs at a scale no one can replicate? AI needs collaboration, but let’s think about it differently.
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Open source job security through recessions
Stay close to free software, either through companies that support open source projects or by contributing directly to project communities.
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What happens when there’s not enough cloud?
Multi-cloud may be the answer to the struggle to keep up with the overwhelming demand for cloud resources.
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Security survives the budget axe
The good news is that recession or no, security remains a somewhat uncuttable expense for CIOs, according to new data from Morgan Stanley Research.
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Microsoft’s complicated dance with open source
The decision to make the C# extension in Visual Studio Code proprietary is raising hackles, but Microsoft is still a consistent supporter of open source.
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MongoDB grows up
Jokes aside, MongoDB is popular and consistently solid. MongoDB World shows the latest commitments to analytics, security, and open source.
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Cloud complicates everything, but supergraphs offer hope
We live in the golden age of cloud computing. For consumers, it’s a wonder. For developers, it’s a complete and utter mess.
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As data science goes mainstream, so does its language
Python may be the second choice to R, but its popularity and ease of use positions it to dominate data science.
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Thoughtworks weighs in on multi-cloud
Multi-cloud simply won’t go away. AWS spent years trying to avoid it, with persistent messaging that multi-cloud was more exception than rule.
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The new AWS: No more dumpster fires
We used to be able to count on a steady blaze of open source dumpster fires raging in the corner of downtown Seattle where AWS is headquartered.
