Free Software and Open Source never was “just a technology thing”, it’s a cultural shift; that’s why the movement also has a role model function When I first got exposed to F/OSS, the world was mostly powered by proprietary software and I didn’t have access to the ‘source’ of the technology that powered my computer.…
True to the motto: “Branding requires devotion; Devotion to constantly reinventing ourselves” we have decided to refresh our vision and mission as part of our rebranding. For once, CI/CD did not mean continuous integration and continuous delivery, but corporate identity and corporate design. What has happened to the Adfinis in these areas lately? Spoiler alert:…
Galera is a multimaster MySQL cluster that provides virtually synchronous replication by certifying so called “write-sets”, which ensures that all database transactions are committed on all cluster nodes. The software is developed and maintained by Codership. This article is a compilation from material targeting the Galera cluster in general, mixed with insights gained in Codership…
It’s with great pleasure that the jury can announce the winners of the LibreOffice Template Contest 2020. We got over 30 different template submissions and it wasn’t an easy task to narrow the list down to six winners. Thanks to the diverse jury team consisting out of a total of nine people from the community…
Running since 1999, linux.conf.au is the largest Linux and open source conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference provides deep technical presentations from industry leaders and experts on a wide array of subjects related to open source projects, data, and open government and community engagement. Of course, Adfinis was part of it! Here are our…
After a long collaboration, the partnership between Adfinis and GitLab has now become official. The partnership was a logical fit, not only because Adfinis has always used GitLab as a DevOps platform, but also because the mentality of collaboration and open source connects both companies at their core. GitLab is the modern solution that gives…
Version 6.4 is a major upgrade of the LibreOffice based office suite on your Apple and Android mobile device! Note: if you want to learn about the history of this project you should also check the first and the second blog post in this series! After roughly two years of hard work driven by Collabora…
LibreOffice Template Contest 2020 Adfinis organizes a template contest supported by the LibreOffice design team for some extra creativity, inspiration and fun in the last days of an otherwise crazy year! LibreOffice is a project where everyone can participate – its open source development model and the embracing community are important factors in the…
In this vlog, Robert shows you why Ansible and Terraform are such a good combination. Maybe you’ve seen Terraform, Terraform is really good at spinning up or managing resources on any cloud provider. These can be many different types of resources, like volumes, load balancers, any kind of resources basically. Terraform is not really good…
In this video, Robert demonstrates how you can prevent cloud lock-in with Terraform. Terraform allows you to describe your infrastructure as code and lets you decide on what cloud you want to use. In this vlog, Robert de Bock will give you a short explanation about what “Cloud Lock-in” is and how you can prevent…
