Video sharing site YouTube suffered a global outage yesterday leaving many insufferably starved of their daily fix of viewable content. Why did it happen? David Williams examines some possible answers.

Code hosting and collaboration platform GitHub has released its Octoverse 2018 report, providing statistics and insights on global software development trends – revealing Microsoft under Satya Nadella was by far the number one contributor to open source this year.

Software developers have a responsibility to collaborate and build the future together, and open source thinking is the way to achieve it, says GitHub’s chief strategy officer Julio Avalos.

Germany-based open source company SUSE has expanded support for the next generation of developers through a widening of the SUSE Academic Program.

Splunk’s president of Worldwide Field Operations runs 68% of the company and has a distinguished career across the NSA, Sun and Salesforce. Oh, and incidentally, she’s a woman.

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