LinkedIn Open Sources a Pair of Incident-Escalation Tools
Some companies don’t always get the public credit they deserve for contributing to the open source community software and tools that can enable other developers to move their own projects along quicker and more efficiently. Companies such as Facebook, Google and others are famous for giving back to the software community valuable code, tools and hardware designs that they can use to solve thorny problems. But others, such as Yahoo and LinkedIn, aren’t as well known for what they are contributing. Besides the original development of Hadoop a dozen years ago, Yahoo has been an active participant in projects such as those listed on the company's Github page [1] , in various Apache Software Foundation Communities, and in niche communities, such as CPAN and others. Last month it released a container-access control [2] to the community, a valuable tool in view of the current popularity of new-gen container/micro-services-based systems. Mountain View, Calif...