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Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
Today we announce Consul, a solution for service discovery and configuration. Consul is completely distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes and services across multiple datacenters. Some concrete problems Consul solves: finding the services applications need (database, queue, mail server, etc.)…
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GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
The mudflap run time checker has been removed. The mudflap options remain, but do nothing.
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Reproducible SBCL builds – a month ahead of schedule
I think this might be my last blog entry on the subject of building SBCL for a while.
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Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced
Elixir v0.13.0 comes with substantial improvements to the language: maps, structs, comprehensiona and more. It also marks the announcement of the hex.pm package manager and the announcement of ElixirConf.
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DigitalOcean Indicator
The other weekend I took some time to play around with the DigitalOcean API, and this is what resulted. The DigitalOcean indicator allows you to monitor and manage your droplets directly from your panel. You can: Quickly see which droplets are active. Reboot, power on, and/or power down you …
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A Path to Full-time Open Source
Two years ago today I released Sidekiq Pro, my commercial extension to Sidekiq, as an experiment to see if I could make OSS development financially viable for individual developers. I had no idea if anyone would trust me and buy it. Can you think of anyone else selling a Rubygem?
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Where KDE is Going – Part 1
This article explores where the KDE community currently stands and where it is going. Frameworks, Plasma, KDE e.V., Qt5, KDE Free Qt Foundation, QtAddons - you heard some of these terms and want to know what all the fuss is about? A set of articles on the Dot aims to bring some clarity in the changes and constants of…
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An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal
The most time-consuming part of operating system development is obtaining enough drivers to enable the OS to run real applications which interact with the real world. NetBSD's rump kernels allow reducing that time to almost zero, for example for developing special-purpose operating systems for the cloud and embedded…
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LyX 2.1.0 released
Note that we have an announcements mailling list in case you want to be automatically informed about news. RSS feeds are here .
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Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform
Wikimedia launches a space for collaboration open to all contributors: phabricator.wikimedia.org. Primarily devoted to software development, this platform also welcomes non-technical projects. Wiki…
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Stripe: Open Source Retreat Grantees
Learn how to build web and mobile applications to accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business online with Stripe.
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Self-hosted Git Server
Moving off of Github and onto my own public Git hosting.
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PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released 9.4 Beta 3, the next beta release of the new version. This beta …
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Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source
Today we are announcing that we are open sourcing the two systems at the heart of our business: SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform . SmartDataCenter is the container-based orchestration software that runs the Joyent public cloud ; we have used it for the better half of a decade to run on-the-metal…
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