Using a custom devfile registry and C++ with Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

April 14, 2021

Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides teams with predefined workspaces to streamline application development. Out of the box, CodeReady Workspaces supports numerous languages and plugins. However, many organizations want to customize a workspace and make it available to developers across the organization as a standard. In this article, I show you how to use a custom devfile registry […]

Mandrel: A specialized distribution of GraalVM for Quarkus

April 14, 2021

When we first announced Mandrel, we explained why Red Hat needed a downstream distribution of GraalVM. We were most interested in GraalVM’s native image capability, specifically in the context of Quarkus. In this article, we explain what Mandrel is and what it’s not. We’ll introduce some of Mandrel’s technical features and offer a short demonstration […]

How to pick the right container base image

April 13, 2021

Picking the right container base image feels hard for a lot of people. Every major Linux distribution offers a base image. Open source projects for programming languages like Python, Ruby, and Node.js offer their own base images. Many open source projects and vendors also provide their own images for services like MariaDB, Redis, Elastic, and […]

C# 9 new features for methods and functions

April 13, 2021

This is the third article in our C# 9 series. In the previous articles, we covered top-level programs and target-typed expressions and new features for pattern matching. In this article, we’ll look at new features for methods, anonymous functions, and local functions. Covariant return types When overriding base class members or implementing interfaces, C# 9 […]

Containerize and deploy Strapi applications on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift

April 9, 2021

Strapi is the leading open-source headless content management system (CMS). It’s 100% JavaScript, fully customizable, and takes a developer-first approach. Strapi provides you with an interface to create and manage all the resources for your website. You can then build a front end to connect to your Strapi API with your favorite tools and frameworks. […]

What's happening in the Node.js community

April 8, 2021

Curious about what’s going on in the Node.js community? Node.js 16 will be released in April 2021 and promoted to long-term support in October 2021. We’re also rapidly approaching the end-of-life date for Node.js 10. After April 2021, there will be no further patches or security fixes made available for the Node.js 10 release line. […]