How to Measure the Cost of Open Source Language Builds20190523090509
How to Measure the Cost of Open Source Language Builds
May 23, 2019build engineering, cost of open source, devops, open source enterprise
Summary: automating build engineering is the only viable way to ensure lower costs and increased throughput. Up till now, fully automating the build e...
Customer Support Chatbots: Easier & More Effective Than You Think20190516101054
Customer Support Chatbots: Easier & More Effective Than You Think
May 16, 2019chatbots, machine learning, platform, python
Create your own free chatbot environment with just a few commands and learn more about the benefits of customer service chatbots in this post. Opinion...
ActiveState Announces Winners of its 2019 Annual Developer Survey for Open Source Runtime Pains20190510090514
ActiveState Announces Winners of its 2019 Annual Developer Survey for Open Source Runtime Pains
May 10, 2019developers, open source, platform, survey
For the second year in a row we ran a developer survey to better understand open source runtime pains. The survey was geared towards anyone programmin...
Simplifying Software Development Environment Setup20190502114016
Simplifying Software Development Environment Setup
May 2, 2019build engineering, cli, development environment, python
Software development best practices are “best practices” for a reason. For example, the best practice when beginning a new project is to create a new ...
Consolidating Applications with a Common Runtime20190425101057
Consolidating Applications with a Common Runtime
April 25, 2019application security, build engineering, dependencies, runtime verification
If you’re like most enterprises, you’ve got teams working on multiple applications that share much the same technology stack. Let’s take Python as an ...
Add Machine Learning to Legacy Applications with Python20190418100534
Add Machine Learning to Legacy Applications with Python
April 18, 2019ai, machine learning, oem, python
These days, it seems like Machine Learning (ML) is everywhere. Well, everywhere except in legacy applications. But you can hardly blame the applicatio...
Machine Learning: the Future is Here, and Python is Driving20190411100233
Machine Learning: the Future is Here, and Python is Driving
April 11, 2019ai, machine learning, python programming, software industry trends
It seems like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are everywhere these days. In fact, it’s surprising how much of it we already tak...
How to Spell Security B-O-M20190404100549
How to Spell Security B-O-M
April 4, 2019application security, bill of materials, devops tools
Before you can talk about application security you first need to know: Which applications are deployed where? i.e., an application inventory What comp...
Security vs “One Size Fits All” Runtime Environments20190328100521
Security vs “One Size Fits All” Runtime Environments
March 28, 2019application security, open source licensing, runtime verification
When developing with open source languages the simplest and quickest solution is to grab whatever reputable packaged runtime environment you can find,...
How to Make Python Dependencies Manageable20190321101048
How to Make Python Dependencies Manageable
March 21, 2019build engineering, dependencies, pipenv, python, virtualenv
Cross-package dependencies are a nightmare. Every Readme says “install packages X, Y and Z” but they rarely mention the versions of those ...