The Hidden Cost of Build Engineering20190207090856
The Hidden Cost of Build Engineering
February 7, 2019build engineering, enterprise open source, software development
Endless configuration, tool installation, language and package updates, dependency hell, security upgrades, component patches…yak shaving…. Does...
Top Open Source Language Trends for 201920190131153317
Top Open Source Language Trends for 2019
January 31, 2019Open source language, open source languages, software industry trends
At ActiveState, we recently put on a Webinar to present the Top 5 Trends in Open Source Languages as well as our predictions to capitalize or address ...
Making Coding more Accessible to Non-Devs20190124143643
Making Coding more Accessible to Non-Devs
January 24, 2019developers, programming, scripting languages
Taught vs Self Taught When I was just starting out in software, I found that many of my peers often dismissed education as unnecessary saying, “just g...
Software Estimation: Should it Include Build Engineering?20190117093823
Software Estimation: Should it Include Build Engineering?
January 17, 2019agile, build engineering, platform, software development
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
December 27, 2018developers, dynamic languages, open source, survey results
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
December 20, 2018devops, open source, platform, polyglot, saas
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
December 7, 2018build engineering, enterprise, open source
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
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...
The Advent of Open Source Language Automation20181115115805
The Advent of Open Source Language Automation
November 15, 2018open source enterprise, open source langauges, polyglot
Today we announced the creation and our leadership of a new industry category critical to enterprise developers and IT operations: Open Source Languag...
Merging Build Engineering with DevOps20181025122407
Merging Build Engineering with DevOps
October 25, 2018automation, build engineering, CICD, devops, devops management
This article was originally posted on Medium. In previous Medium posts I’ve spoken about the challenges with the software development lifecycle, polyg...