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LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen, and the new Open Community Conference combine have combined under one umbrella name—the Open Source Summit. At the Open Source Summit, attendees will collaborate, share information, and learn across a wide variety of topics, with 2,000 technologists and community members.

Scaling your developer community with plugins

Plugins are an excellent way to get more people contributing code to your project.

Greg Sutcliffe 01 Oct 2018 158 votes

Distributed tracing in a microservices world

What is distributed tracing and why is it so important in a microservices environment?

Juraci Paixão Kröhling (Red Hat) 20 Sep 2018 191 votes

A day in the life of a log message

Navigating a modern distributed system from the perspective of a log message.

Josef Karásek (Red Hat) Kyle Liberti (Red Hat) 14 Sep 2018 166 votes 1 comment

6 ways programmers from underrepresented countries can get ahead

It's harder for programmers from less-privileged nations trying to achieve success alongside people from countries with many material advantages.

Ivange Larry 07 Aug 2018 149 votes 10 comments

Squashing inclusivity bugs in open source software

GenderMag methodology identifies gender bias in software tools to help designers eliminate it.

Anita Sarma 03 Aug 2018 162 votes 3 comments

How to manage casual contributors to open source projects

Try these strategies to better utilize contributions from your project's episodic volunteers.

Ann Barcomb 23 Oct 2017 622 votes 1 comment

How to define a metrics strategy for your community

Measuring data can help open source communities boost efficiency, but designing and implementing a strategy can be a challenge. Here's how to break it down.

Daniel Izquierdo 16 Oct 2017 591 votes

10 layers of Linux container security

Employ these strategies to secure different layers of the container solution stack and different stages of the container lifecycle.

Daniel Oh (Red Hat) 09 Oct 2017 502 votes 5 comments

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