Federal agencies looking to modernize legacy IT systems and applications are turning to technologies that can give them more agility.
Executives from both government and industry share in a new video series how their organizations are using cloud-ready and cloud-native applications, together with open source code, to facilitate quicker development times.
Additionally, tapping into open source development communities allows them to overcome some of chronic IT skills gaps many agencies continue to face.
But it also has yielded a variety of other IT benefits, say executives featured in the “Champions of Digital Transformation” video series, produced by FedScoop and underwritten by Red Hat:
Open source is transforming culture and processes within organizations
“When I think about how [open source] is adding value to the cloud native space, especially around application development, I think a lot of [the value] is invented in open source communities, right?” says Jason Corey director of emerging technologies at Red Hat. Community participation in code development is perhaps the biggest value-add with cloud native applications, he says.
Jeff Walter, deputy head and data systems engineering lead for NASA Langley, sees the added benefit of leveraging open source to meet skills needs for development “because the number of people intimately familiar with a niche commercial solution are far fewer than in the number of talented developers familiar with open source packages.”
Open source is being used both in civilian and ..
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