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:
Forbes - Observing Life Inside The Open Source Cloud-Native Stack
As a key trend that has shaped the last decade of cloud in particular, cloud computing evolved to the point where organizations started to consider the possibility of skipping past that cumbersome cloud migration phase. They said, why don’t we just build cloud native then? So they did.


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Red Hat Joins Forces with U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories to Bridge the Gap Between High Performance Computing and Cloud Environments
Red Hat announced it is collaborating with multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories to bolster cloud-native standards and practices in high-performance computing (HPC), including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories.


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Command Line Heroes - S9 | E8: All Together Now
In the series finale, Command Line Heroes tackles vulnerability scans, how sharing information can be a powerful tool against cyber crime, and why it’s more important than ever for cybersecurity to have more people, more eyes, and more voices, in the fight.


GOOD READ:
DevPro Journal - 3 Advantages of Participating in Open Source Projects
Once you dive into the technology community, specifically the community of the developer, the value of OSS is undeniable. Developers and engineers love the web, want it to succeed, and have a vested interest in building technologies that serve their community’s goals.


LEARN MORE:
SDxCentral - 7 Layers Finds Out How Kubernetes Complexity Can be Overcome
Dan Meyer, executive editor at SDxCentral, speaks with Stu Miniman, director of market insights for cloud platforms at Red Hat, to discuss why Kubernetes is so complex, how enterprise IT teams should approach that challenge, and what the vendor ecosystem can do to help deal with that complexity.
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