Tag: Open source
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Shaping the future: Conversation with Jory Burson on the 2023 state of open standards
Posted on August 31, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Open standards are the hidden architecture that underpins everything from communication protocols to how our devices talk to one another. These standards provide a shared language that ensures compatibility and drives innovation. However, until recently, there was a significant gap in understanding the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of those involved in creating these vital tools. By The Linux Foundation.
Tags open-source cio management teams
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Lessons from maintainers of the world's most critical software
Posted on August 13, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The article interviews maintainers of some of the world's most critical software, including the Linux kernel, the OpenBSD operating system, and the Apache HTTP Server. The maintainers share their insights on how to build and maintain successful open source projects. By The Linux Foundation.
Tags infosec servers learning open-source
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How to make engaging programming videos
Posted on July 4, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Programming videos have become an increasingly popular medium for sharing knowledge and helping the fellow developers on your team. Especially when you're working remotely, effective communication is vital, and screencasts have emerged as a powerful tool that meets this need. That's why knowing how to make programming videos is a valuable skill, no matter where you are in your career. By Philipp Acsany.
Tags open-source miscellaneous web-development programming
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PayPal open sources key-value store JunoDB
Posted on June 27, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
PayPal last month released the source code for JunoDB, a distributed key-value store it developed internally and which today powers a variety of backend services at the payment site, including 350 billion transaction requests per day, the company says. By Alex Woodie.
Tags open-source performance web-development app-development database
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Rails design patterns - the big picture
Posted on June 22, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A design pattern is a repeatable solution to solve common problems in a software design. When building apps with the Ruby on Rails framework, you will often face such issues, especially when working on big legacy applications where the architecture does not follow good software design principles. By Paweł Dąbrowski.
Tags web-development app-development cloud open-source
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A serverless query engine from spare parts
Posted on May 7, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An open-source implementation of a Data Lake with DuckDB and AWS Lambdas. In this post we will show how to build a simple end-to-end application in the cloud on a serverless infrastructure. The purpose is simple: we want to show that we can develop directly against the cloud while minimizing the cognitive overhead of designing and building infrastructure. By Ciro Greco.
Tags data-science streaming apis database serverless open-source
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How Grafana Labs uses and contributes to OpenCost, open source project for real-time cost monitoring in Kubernetes
Posted on February 10, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
While more and more teams are adopting Kubernetes as their standard container orchestration technology, cost insight is lacking. Teams often don't know how much they're spending, where in their organization they are spending, or what is driving their infrastructure cost increases. OpenCost helps alleviate this problem by bringing real-time cost monitoring to Kubernetes workloads with a solution that encompasses both an open specification and an open source project. By Mark Poko, JuanJo Ciarlante.
Tags cloud kubernetes devops performance open-source
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Kubernetes events: In-depth guide and examples
Posted on January 4, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Kubernetes events help you understand how Kubernetes resource decisions are made and they can be helpful for debugging. Learn more about k8s events in this in-depth guide. By Tyler Charboneau.
Tags apis devops app-development open-source streaming event-driven
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Spatial search functionality with Neo4j
Posted on January 3, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post we explore some techniques for working with geospatial data in Neo4j. We will cover some basic spatial Cypher functions, spatial search, routing algorithms, and different methods of importing geospatial data into Neo4j. By William Lyon.
Tags apis how-to devops web-development open-source nosql miscellaneous
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What is JAMstack - introduction
Posted on December 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
At its core, the JAMstack is a web development approach that focuses on using client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup to create web applications. This architecture allows for faster and more secure web development by using prebuilt and pre-rendered pages, which are then delivered to the user via a content delivery network (CDN). By Martin.
Tags open-source cloud web-development javascript
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Building a CI pipeline for Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile using GitHub actions
Posted on December 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
When evaluating a Kotlin Multiplatform solution, it was very important to our team that we understand how we could build a CI/CD pipeline for the project. It needed to be easy for our team to push changes and build a new version of the project. By Nate Ebel, Android Engineer.
Tags kotlin devops open-source cloud cicd
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Building more efficient data infrastructure for machine learning
Posted on December 17, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The current influx of data — structured, semi-structured, and unstructured — being driven by an array of data sources is fueling opportunities to leverage machine learning to extract insights and accelerate innovations that can transform businesses and industries. As these data volumes continue to rise, companies are struggling with the complicated task of managing this data and figuring out how to harness it for analytics and AI. By Vedant Jain, Denny Lee.
Tags cio open-source big-data data-science machine-learning