Developer tools

Red Hat OpenShift supports two workflows for building container images for applications: the source workflow and the binary workflow. This article compares the two workflows, describes how to use each of them, and explains which workflow to use depending on your circumstances.

This article shows how set up Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift and then use SQL Server to store data for a simple ASP.NET Core application running in a container deployed on OpenShift that manages a list of contacts. It also shows how to manage SQL Server within OpenShift using SQL Operation Studio.

The new Technology Reports feature in Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit (RHAMT) 4.1.0 lets you quickly analyze hundreds of applications to see which technologies they use. In addition, the size, number of libraries, and story point totals of each application are displayed, allowing you to quickly determine each application’s type from a single report.

Kestrel, the web server in the .NET Core, supports replacing the network layer. This article benchmarks Kestrel’s networking layer with a Linux-specific implementation to achieve measurable performance gains compared to the out-the-box implementation.

The latest release of the Fuse Tooling includes some new capabilities around the Camel REST DSL and re-using SOAP services in RESTful ways.

New releases: Red Hat Developer Studio 12 and Container Development Kit 3.5. Learn about the new features and updates to other developer tools for Windows, macOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Read about the latest features in Red Hat Developer Studio 12.0, JBoss Tools 4.6.0, and Eclipse 4.8 Photon including Java 10 support. Developer Studio is a bundled installer. JBoss Tools can be added to your existing Eclipse 4.8 installation.

Apache Camel URI completion for Java DSL is now available in Visual Studio Code and Eclipse Desktop. This article shows it in action in these two IDEs.

Clang tools and newer versions of GCC can be quite helpful for better warnings and error messages during C/C++ development. This article shows how you can easily install the latest supported Clang 5 and GCC 7 compilers using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also provides tips for working with software collections.

In this DevNation Live session, we’ll show you how feature toggles can be bundled inside your software development process.

Containers are the new way of deploying applications. They are an efficient way to portably deploy applications across clouds and different OSes.This article looks at what OpenShift brings for .NET Core specifically and how OpenShift provides a DevOps platform on top of Kubernetes for building and deploying apps.

At the summer 2018 ISO C++ standards committee meeting, proposals for new features for C++2a were coming quickly from the Evolution Working Group. Red Hatters covered core, library, and parallelism/concurrency. Read about the new C++ core language features that were accepted at this meeting.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7's new iPaaS feature, Fuse Ignite, is a platform on which citizen integrators and developers can coexist, collaborate, and contribute to an end-to-end integration. See how EDI analysts can use it to focus on their business mappings and transformations.

Eclipse Che 6.6 is here, and since the release of Che 6.0, the community has added a number of new capabilities. In this article, learn about new features and how to get started using Che with Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and Docker.

Red Hat Application Migration Toolkit provides utilities for easing the process of application migration and modernization. You can analyze an existing code base using a CLI, web-based interface, or inside Eclipse to identify what might need to change in order to migrate to a newer platform

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) provides a single-node Red Hat OpenShift cluster that can assist with containerized application development. This environment is like a production OpenShift environment that works on a single user's computer. Follow these steps to install CDK 3.4 on Fedora 28.

To detect common programming errors, GCC 8 contains a number of new warnings and enhancements to existing checkers to help find non-obvious bugs in C and C++ code. This article focuses on those that deal with inadvertent string truncation and discusses some of the approaches to avoiding the underlying problems.

Over 100 breakout sessions from Red Hat Summit 2018 are now available to watch on YouTube. Even if you were at Summit, there were too many sessions to attend all of the ones you might have wanted to see. All of the recorded sessions are in one big searchable YouTube playlist.

Reviewing source code can be helpful in understanding how code works, but the static view may not give you a complete picture. The paths taken through code are heavily data dependent. Learn how to use Systemtap and debuginfo to dig into the Ruby interpreter internals on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

OpenShift.io is a cloud native set of zero-install tools for editing and debugging code, agile planning, and managing CI/CD pipelines. Installing and configuring developer tools is a major time sink; OpenShift.io takes that task out of the picture.

It’s been an incredibly exciting journey for Eclipse Che since the acquisition of Codenvy by Red Hat. Che 6 is the most important release in Eclipse Che history—it is a big release with more than 1,550 commits. So there’s a ton of new goodness for everyone!