The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
IN THE NEWS:
Microsoft SQL Server meets the Red Hat Universal Base Image
Microsoft has taken Red Hat up on the opportunity provided by Red Hat Universal Base Image, and has released SQL Server 2019 for Linux as a UBI 8 container.
NEW ON THE BLOG:
The three principles of successful cloud-native development
Three industry experts, including Red Hat's Franz Meyer, enter into an in-depth discussion on the cloud-native approach to IT architecture.
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Command Line Heroes season 4 episode 2: Mainframes
The story of a small team of rebel employees at General Electric who built a mainframe that pushed computing from a niche market to the mainstream.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Red Hat Shares - Edge computing
Organizations are increasingly turning to edge computing for Internet of Things devices and new applications that require real-time processing power. From Red Hat Shares, learn what edge computing is and what it can do for you.
CHECK IT OUT:
TechRepublic - How to get started with automation: A Red Hat exec offers advice
Red Hat VP Nick Hopman shares the company's secrets on helping organizations to automate.
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