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In this article, we talk with Andrew Jenkins, Lead Architect at Aspen Mesh, about moving from monolithic apps to microservices and cut through some of the hype around service mesh for managing microservice architectures.

Of the many great features/changes for Linux 4.17, one of the most exciting to us is the idle power efficiency and performance-per-Watt improvements on some systems thanks to a rework to the kernel's idle loop handling. Rafael Wysocki and Thomas Ilsche as two of the developers working on this big code change presented on their work today for this CPU idle loop ordering problem and its resolution.

In the first article in our series on the Cloud Foundry for Developers training course, we explained what Cloud Foundry is and how it's used. We continue our journey here with a look at some basic terms. Understanding the terminology is the key to not being in a constant state of bewilderment, so here are the most important terms and concepts to know for Cloud Foundry.

This article was co-written with Jeff Triplett. read more

Microsoft announced an “Azure Sphere” architecture for high-end microcontrollers that run a Linux-based Azure Sphere OS and include end-to-end Microsoft security technologies and a cloud service. Products based on a MediaTek MT3620 Azure Sphere chip are due by year’s end.

Our biggest hit last week was Don Watkins' article on why System76 will start making its Linux computers in the U.S. Here's more of what readers were talking about the week of April 9-15.

The Linux Foundation offers many resources for developers, users, and administrators of Linux systems. One of the most important offerings is its Linux Certification Program. The program is designed to give you a way to differentiate yourself in a job market that's hungry for your skills.

The Kdenlive team, creators of KDE's non-linear video editor, will be holding their next sprint at the Carrefour Numérique in the Cité des Sciences in Paris next week. The sprint will run from the 25th to the 29th of April, and two days will be open to the public.

OroCRM is an open source Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) platform fully targeted at e-commerce and marketing teams with a multichannel perspective. It is fully customizable and an enterprise-ready CRM application providing tons of features. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install OroCRM on Ubuntu 16.04.

DevOps doesn't mean that everyone needs to be an expert in both development and operations. This is especially true in larger organizations in which roles tend to be more specialized. Rather, DevOps thinking has evolved in a way that makes it more about the separation of concerns.

But warns it will bail if something better comes along. SAP has revealed its attitude to Oracle’s decision to let go of Java EE and have it tended by the Eclipse Foundation.…

Well, it's finally happened. Microsoft has released a product containing its own Linux kernel: Azure Sphere. It's not MS-Linux or Linux Windows, but it's still remarkable. For the first time, Microsoft has released its own Linux kernel in a new Linux-based product: Azure Sphere.

Do you hold a critical role in a free and open source software project? Would you like to make it easier for the next person to step into your shoes, while also giving yourself the freedom to take breaks and avoid burnout? Of course you would! But how do you get started?

Moxa announced a line of rugged, compact “UC 2100” IoT gateways that run 10-year available Moxa Industrial Linux and optional ThingsPro Gateway middleware on a Cortex-A8 SoC. Moxa announced the UC-2100 Series industrial IoT gateways along with its new UC 3100 and UC 5100 Series, but it offered details only on the UC-2100. All three […]

Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. Python does indeed support native-level threads with an easy-to-use and convenient interface.

The Linux command line may be a bit hard to learn, but it's worth it. Reason being, it's so powerful that you can do almost everything with it that you can otherwise do using UI. In this tutorial, we will discuss a utility which you can use to shut your system down using some easy to understand examples.

Lenovator has opened $299 pre-orders on LeMaker’s 96Boards CE Extended “HiKey 970” SBC, which offers an octa-core Kirin 970 SoC, 6GB LPDDR4, 64GB UFS storage, wireless, GbE, M.2, and CAN.

In this tutorial, we'll learn how to easily update ONLYOFFICE Document Server to the latest version separately from other solutions to get new features.

Running applications in containers has become a well-accepted practice in the enterprise sector, as Docker with Kubernetes (K8s) now provides a scalable, manageable application platform. The container-based approach also suits the microservices architecture that's gained significant momentum in the past few years. read more

Definitely hails amazing shrinking kernel in 4.17 rc1 Linus Torvalds has suggested that the next Linux kernel could earn the number “5.0”.…