Software Estimation: Should it Include Build Engineering?20190117093823
Software Estimation: Should it Include Build Engineering?
Building Dev Environments Velocity as a measure of developer output is a well known metric for agile teams. Maximizing developer velocity is key to ge...
Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source20181227080639
Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source
This article was originally published in SDTimes. Developers say that replicating environments and maintaining proper information about the quality of...
Q&A with ActiveState: on the Challenges of Working with Open Source Languages, the Future of OSS, and ActiveState’s New SaaS Platform20181220072611
Q&A with ActiveState: on the Challenges of Working with Open Source Languages, the Future of OSS, and ActiveState’s New SaaS Platform
This article was originally published in SourceForge. Today, knowledge-centric organizations have come to recognize the value of open source languages...
How to Safely Navigate the World of Open Source Languages20181207084116
How to Safely Navigate the World of Open Source Languages
This article was originally published on Enterprise CIO. Opensource.com notes that, due to their widespread use, open source languages will enable and...
Adopting a New Programming Language in your Enterprise: Pains vs Gains20181120083115
Adopting a New Programming Language in your Enterprise: Pains vs Gains
ActiveState knows from our 2018 Developer Survey that one of the hardest things an enterprise can do is to adopt a new programming language. 67% of yo...
The Advent of Open Source Language Automation20181115115805
The Advent of Open Source Language Automation
Today we announced the creation and our leadership of a new industry category critical to enterprise developers and IT operations: Open Source Langua...
Merging Build Engineering with DevOps20181025122407
Merging Build Engineering with DevOps
This article was originally posted on Medium. In previous Medium posts I’ve spoken about the challenges with the software development lifecycle, p...
Machine Learning Use Cases by Industry20181018105015
Machine Learning Use Cases by Industry
What is Machine Learning (ML)? Pragmatically most can agree that it’s about getting computers to learn over time in an autonomous fashion by feeding...
Why pipenv > venv20181016154501
Why pipenv > venv
Pipenv was first released as an experiment way back in January of 2017 by Kenneth Reitz. Even though pipenv is a package that attempts to marry the be...
How to do Machine Learning without Learning Data Science20181009154501
How to do Machine Learning without Learning Data Science
For all that TensorFlow is the current darling of the Machine Learning (ML) crowd, it’s just a graphing library that represents a series of commands...