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Security blind spots persist as companies cross-breed security with devops

As devops matures into devsecops, cultural obstacles continue to exert drag. Devops has become common in software-development organizations around the world, but many companies are still struggling with cultural issues that are dampening security practitioners’ influence in the devsecops practices crucial for next-generation cloud application development. When it’s done well, devops is driving dramatic change—with GitLab’s recently released 2021 … Read more

The future of open source licences is changing

The Open Source Insider blog on Computer Weekly recently asked industry experts for their views on the future of open source licensing. One of the pillars of software development is: never reinvent the wheel. Why invent a new algorithm or write a piece of code to achieve a particular objective, if something already exists? To … Read more

With friends like AWS, who needs an open source business?

AWS executive’s remarks over the company’s exploitation of open source have put a question mark over the viability of open source businesses. In December, a New York Times article suggested that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was strip-mining open source projects by providing managed services based on open source code, without contributing back to the community. In response to the … Read more