Oracle Charges for Java Updates: Now What?20190214091744
Oracle Charges for Java Updates: Now What?
Prior to January 2019, customers paid Oracle for a Java Standard Edition (SE) license plus annual support, and updates were provided for free. Startin...
Adopting a New Programming Language in your Enterprise: Pains vs Gains20181120083115
Adopting a New Programming Language in your Enterprise: Pains vs Gains
November 20, 2018enterprise, polyglot, programming languages
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...
Machine Learning Use Cases by Industry20181018105015
Machine Learning Use Cases by Industry
October 18, 2018machine learning, ml, mlops, use cases
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 t...
How to do Machine Learning without Learning Data Science20181009154501
How to do Machine Learning without Learning Data Science
October 9, 2018data science, keras, machine learning, ml
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 a...
Tracking Application Risk without the Risk of an Agent20181004160202
Tracking Application Risk without the Risk of an Agent
October 4, 2018application security, open source risk, runtime security
In recent years security has taken a back seat to time-to-market. We’ve moved from a waterfall to an agile software methodology and left ourselves wit...
Shift Left – How to Secure your Source Code20181002160402
Shift Left – How to Secure your Source Code
October 2, 2018application security, shift-left
You hear “shift left” tossed around in software development circles these days. It’s like the secret passphrase you need to know to get into the secur...
Open Source and the Visibility Problem20180918160128
Open Source and the Visibility Problem
September 18, 2018open source, platform, reproducible builds
The world runs on software, and as any developer knows, software runs on open source. In fact, as much as 90% of the code base of any application buil...
Machine Learning for DevOps20180913184656
Machine Learning for DevOps
September 13, 2018devops, devops automation, machine learning, ml
Automation is a key design principle for DevOps teams. To speed up throughput in the software development life cycle (SDLC) DevOps automates everythin...
Open Source DIY is Open Source WRONG20180911152450
Open Source DIY is Open Source WRONG
September 11, 2018cost of open source, enterprise software, open source, software development
Okay, let’s lay it on the line right up front: if you’re still building and managing your own open source programming languages, you’re doing open sou...
Why Python 3 is The Python You Always Wanted20180906160402
Why Python 3 is The Python You Always Wanted
September 6, 2018moving to Python 3, python 3
Back when Python was just an idea in Guido van Rossum’s mind, the World Wide Web was just being born, APIs were proprietary (if your application had o...