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Will IBM’s acquisition mean the end of Terraform’s maligned RUM billing model?

Dataconomy

It has been more than a month since IBM announced its acquisition of HashiCorp, the creator of the popular Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool Terraform. Some welcomed the purchase and considered it a perfect fit for IBM’s cloud expansion. IBM is well-known for its affinity to open source. Will IBM keep the RUM flowing?

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 2 General Session

Scott Lowe

Chris Buckley, Director of DevOps at Business Insider, took the stage to provide an overview of how Business Insider (BI) started using Docker. Johnston introduces folks from Microsoft, IBM, and Booz Allen to talk about the future of distributed applications (Mark Russinovich, Jason McGee, and Michael Farber, respectively).

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Networking. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.