Open Sourcerers
By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, August 2023 Tested with OpenShift 4.13, AMQ Streams 2.4, Camel K 1.10, and OpenShift Serverless 1.29 Camel K helps us integrate systems in an easy, simple, and cost-effective way. Do more with less. Do more with less. That’s the goal for everyone right now. But every company also has […]
ˈpætɚns Probably almost every time we are starting to understand and to solve a general problem, we will ask ourselves, am I the first one who is facing that problem, or have there been others who in the end either failed or succeeded. This is particularly true, if I am highly uncertain whether my own […]
The latest book by the Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure (The MIT Press, 2023) inspired me to write this blog entry, partly as a review, but also as an opportunity to share some reflections about its implications for the domain of open source […]
Our blogging platform “Open Sourcerers” has grown to over 40 authors, all of whom share the same passion for open source technology. We believe that a community-based approach is essential, and everyone should have the opportunity to contribute to our platform. Until now, our focus has been solely on the content itself, but we have […]
Node Base Images are OCI container images that are used to deliver software updates and customizations to rpm-ostree based Linux systems running on bare metal and virtual machines, such as Fedora CoreOS, Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, CentOS Stream CoreOS, RHEL CoreOS, and RHEL for Edge. Node Base Images are built with OSTree Native Containers. While application […]
As ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said, the only constant in life is change. And it accurately applies to language as well. The spectacle of language change can be observed from two perspectives: synchronous (different language versions going hand-in-hand at the same time) and asynchronous (how language evolves across decades, centuries or millennia). And, taking […]
San Francisco, June 9-10, 2014. In the halls of the Marriott Marquis hotel, the first DockerCon is held. “Containers everywhere!” is printed on the back of event T-shirts. The first big news of DockerCon is the launch of Docker 1.0, but there is much more to come. It is the beginning of what is later […]
As a person with years of academic experience as a linguist and deep love for learning languages, I’ve been pretty much used to discovering all the intricacies of different language systems and comparing them with each other. However, even when I developed an enthusiasm for programming, I still treated natural and programming languages as two […]
Sometimes things happen, and then you need to jump in. You might have deducted from a couple of our posts in the past, mainly around Year-End, that we have a couple of Chief-Editors for this weekly publication. And as there also sometimes someone needs to be the Chief of the Chiefs, we decided, that I […]
OpenSourcerers 2022 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting articles covering a wide range of topics. There are 52 articles available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s products and other OpenSource technologies. Your Opensourcerers blog editors followed along of course! As we come from varying backgrounds […]