OSS: Federation, Word Soup, KubeVirt Status
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Federation in social networks
Social networking is often approached by the free-software community with a certain amount of suspicion—rightly so, since commercial social networks almost always generate revenue by exploiting user data in one way or another. While attempts at a free-software approach to social networking have so far not met widespread success, the new ActivityPub federation protocol and its implementation in the free-software microblogging system Mastodon are gaining popularity and already show some of the advantages of a community-driven approach.
While a community-run, open-source social network would avoid many of the concerns raised by commercial social networks, it's difficult for such a platform to gain widespread adoption because of the "network effect": social networks become more valuable as they gain more users, and so centralization tends to come about naturally. Few people are excited about having an account on yet another social network with few of their friends.
A technical solution to this social problem is federation. In a federated system, multiple independent services use standard protocols to exchange data so that you don't need to use the same social network that a friend does in order to communicate with them. Email is a federated system, where many independent mail servers interact via SMTP, but so far no clear "SMTP for social" has emerged. There are a few contenders, though, and one is on track for W3C standard. First, though, let's take a look at the first major attempt.
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Devops trends 2018: open source, truly mainstream, but the end of ops? [Ed: Buzzwords as trends. Can we return to terms like “server” and “system admins” please?]
Word Soup
Lately we have seen 'devsecops' gaining traction, so what's next, if anything? Opinions differ: Andrea Hirzle-Yager, head of IT at devops-friendly financial service business Allianz thinks that ideally she'd throw architects into the mix.
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KubeVirt Status 0x7E1 (2017)
Where do we stand with KubeVirt at the end of the year? (This virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes)
We gained some speed again, but before going into what we are doing right now; let’s take a look at the past year.
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