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Building Cloud-Native Network Functions with the X-Factor CNF Methodology

By Nikolay Nikolaev At the recent Open Networking Summit Europe 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium, I co-presented a talk on “Crafting Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) Using the X-Factor CNF Methodology” with Frederick Kautz of Doc.ai. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, I’ll explain in this post what we mean by X-Factor CNFs, point to how Read more...

[The Legacy of] the Unbreakable Kernel

Open Source Team posted 6 days ago

Dirk Hohndel, Chief Open Source Officer at VMware, sat down recently with Software Engineering Daily to talk through the history and evolution of open source. This podcast reflects on where it all started and presents an enthusiastic view of the possibilities. Code chunks categorized as best-practices predated even Linux, which is typically recognized as the start of the open source movement. The desire to create an unbreakable kernel by Linus Torvalds, in Read more...

How to Create Good Good-First-Issues

Open Source Team posted October 16, 2019

By Nisha Kumar A good-first-issue, as you probably know, is a GitHub issue or pull request that has been marked by its creator as appropriate for beginners. Typically, it’s also given a good first issue label, making it easier for newcomers to find, although some projects use terms like easy-fix, beginner-friendly, or low-hanging fruit. However Read more...

Open Source Summit Europe 2019: Where Ancient History Meets Cutting Edge Technology

Open Source Team posted October 15, 2019

Why else would over 2,000 open source community members gather for three days of collaboration, coding and cocktails? The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe 2019, of course! Running Oct. 28-30 in Lyon, France, the Summit is one of the largest open source events globally. It’s a must-attend for anyone interested in the latest open source Read more...

What We Learned from Integrating Network Service Mesh with the Service Mesh Interface

Open Source Team posted October 10, 2019

By Ivana Atanasova The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a popular and valuable effort to create a common, portable set of APIs that allow applications to address multiple service mesh solutions. Although Network Service Mesh (NSM) differs from other service mesh offerings in the networking level it addresses, the NSM team decided that it would Read more...

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