The language of software licencing needs an upgrade, says Percona’s Peter Zatsiev

The language of software licencing needs an upgrade, says Percona’s Peter Zatsiev

So says Peter Zatsiev, co-founder of managed database firm Percona and investor in several open source projects. This point of view often has moral overtones, saying open source is transparent and therefore “good”, whereas proprietary software is closed and therefore “bad”, or at least suspect. But this picture is simplistic and increasingly outmoded. First, software …

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Universal Profiling: Elastic announces AI assistant for observability, general availability of universal profiling

Universal Profiling: Elastic announces AI assistant for observability, general availability of universal profiling

Elasticsearch owner Elastic has announced the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and the general availability of Universal Profiling. This will offer site reliability engineers (SREs), at all levels of expertise, with context-aware, relevant, and actionable operational insights that are specific to the IT environment.Elasticsearch AI assistant: Key features and importanceMost IT operations teams face multiple …

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