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Red Hat kicked off a tempest in a teapot
The biggest threats to Red Hat’s Linux market share will come from the companies that make it easiest for developers to do their jobs.
Rust language project revamps governance
Rust Leadership Council established in the wake of community complaints of governance shortcomings and a fork of the language to escape bureacracy.
3 great Git alternatives: Fossil, Mercurial, and Subversion
Git isn't the only open source version control system around. Here's what you need to know about three of its biggest competitors.
Happy 30th, FreeBSD! Why the FreeBSD open source project has endured
As FreeBSD marks three decades of success, we can thank open source freedom, a strong culture, a shared leadership model, modern development practices, and robust code that continues to evolve.
How Grafana made observability accessible
Now 10 years old, the open source passion project that made observability open and composable continues to simplify life for developers.
Automating CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Automating and streamlining the software development lifecycle through continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a cornerstone of software development today. One of the easiest tools for CI/CD is GitHub Actions, a...
Serverless is the future of PostgreSQL
To differentiate the many flavors of PostgreSQL, the few truly serverless offerings promise better engineering and faster development.
What is GitHub Actions? Automated CI/CD for GitHub
GitHub Actions is an automated CI/CD platform that integrates with GitHub to create seamless, versatile CI/CD pipelines. Here's how it works.
Yugabyte adds multiregion Kubernetes support to YugabyteDB 2.18
The new updates include a new intelligent performance advisor that optimizes indexes, queries, and schema for the self-managed, database-as-a-service Yugabyte Anywhere.
GitHub owns up to service issues, multiple outages
Over the past four months, GitHub has experienced 16 disruptions in its services, blog posts from the company showed.
CockroachDB now supports Microsoft Azure, multiregion deployments
With the addition of support for Microsoft Azure, CockroachDB will now support all three major public cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, the company said.
Sigstore: Roots of trust for software artifacts
Sigstore has become the default software signing method for everything from Kubernetes to NPM, Maven, and PyPi, verifying the integrity of more than a million open source packages.
7 awesome Java projects you should know about
The Java ecosystem is bursting with tools and frameworks for just about every programming need. Here are seven open source Java projects you don't want to miss.
Somehow OpenSearch has succeeded
The Elasticsearch fork from AWS stands as proof that the company has committed to contributing to open source.
Amazon’s quiet open source revolution
After years of getting a free ride from open source projects, the company is developing its own obsession with contributing.
Why did Databricks open source its LLM in the form of Dolly 2.0?
Open-source based large language models like Dolly are in high demand as enterprises want to use them for targeted or specific use cases, analysts said.
Meta open-sources ‘significantly faster’ build system
Buck2 is a large-scale build system written in Rust and designed for speed. Builds complete twice as fast as with Buck1, the company says.
The changing world of Java
Vaadin's State of Java Report is a treasure trove of knowledge about how developers are using Java today. Let's dig in.
What is Apache Spark? The big data platform that crushed Hadoop
Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.
