Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The DevOps consulting market is crowded with vendors claiming Kubernetes expertise. Marketing websites showcase impressive client ...

It isn’t the person making the contributions—it’s how easy the contributions make it to use the software. “Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Years before I created MultiCloudJ, an open-source Java SDK for multi-cloud development, I spent a long apprenticeship submitting patches to projects I didn’t own. My first patch to a major ...