Ortelius Blog

Topics include Supply Chain Security, Microservice Management, Neat Tricks, and Contributor insights.

Posts in 2023
  • Is Blockchain Safe?

    Tuesday, March 07, 2023 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    What is Blockchain? Without getting into details of security, let’s spend a few minutes getting to know blockchain better. You might already know what blockchain is, but most of the time we see people using “cryptocurrency” and “blockchain” …

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Posts in 2022
  • Ortelius XRPL Bounty Process

    Monday, October 10, 2022 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Contributed by Steve Taylor, Ortelius Core Contributor @sbtaylor15 How To Get Paid For Contributing to the Ortelius Ledger Project Ortelius has been given a $75K Grant (see GitHub Repo ortelius/la-sbom-ledger) by the XRP Ledger to build on top of …

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Posts in 2021
  • Your Ortelius Journey

    Friday, July 30, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    The Ortelius Supply Chain catalog has been gaining immense popularity as it brings an open source, breakthrough solution for tracking your Supply Chain metadata, including SBOM and CVEs, across the DevOps Pipeline. So the question is how can we …

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  • Bootstrapping an Open-Source Community through Engagement

    Friday, April 02, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    The Ortelius Open Source Community recognized that it is crucial to engage with our open-source contributors meaningfully. In this blog, I will share insights that can be useful for for shaping and leading open-source initiatives. Often organizations …

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  • Microservice Monitoring and Visualization

    Friday, March 26, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Microservices Monitoring and Visualization Microservices have opened new doors in the field of software engineering. The process of monitoring the application has evolved as well, involving multiple services with multiple running instances. …

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  • The genesis for joining as an open source contributor

    Friday, March 19, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Thoughts on Joining an Open Source Community For some of you who are open source veterans, the reasons for becoming and open source contributor may be obvious. But as a newcomer, I would like to share my personal motivations for joining an Open …

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  • Ortelius Website Google Cloud Build Update Process

    Friday, March 19, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Contributed by Sacha Wharton, Ortelius Core Contributor @sachajw Intro I thought aliens were not real until I got abducted by the Ortelius open source project. Now, I am a convert and follower of the “beam me up scotty” container age. I …

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  • The Pros and Cons of GitOps

    Wednesday, February 17, 2021 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Understanding the Brilliance and Limitations of GitOps Before you begin down the GitOps path, you must understand its pros and cons. This blog will cover the fundamentals of GitOps, why it is brilliant, and what are its limitations. Please no hate …

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Posts in 2020
  • Publishing Microservices

    Tuesday, December 29, 2020 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Facilitate Microservice Reuse Publishing microservices is the easiest way to share them across teams. If you are a microservice developer, you need a way to inform other application developers that your microservice is available for use, and how to …

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  • Ortelius A Single Source Of Truth

    Tuesday, December 29, 2020 in Ortelius Committer Insights

    Contributed by Tracy Ragan @TracyRagan The term ‘single source of truth’ is often associated with GitOps where a .yaml file stored in Git becomes our primary source of configuration information. However, there is additional data beyond …

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