InfoWorld 2022 Best Open Source Software Awards – Highlights of Notable Projects

InfoWorld, an international technology media brand, publishes its annual "Best of Open Source Software" (Bossies) awards to recognize the most innovative and impactful open‑source projects of the year.

AlmaLinux

AlmaLinux is an open‑source, community‑driven Linux distribution created as a CentOS replacement, built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code and binary‑compatible with RHEL 8.

Podman

Podman is a daemon‑less container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux, supporting both root and rootless modes.

Podman is part of Libpod and can be aliased to Docker with the command alias docker=podman.

Play with Docker (PWD)

Play with Docker provides a free, browser‑based Alpine Linux VM for hands‑on Docker learning, including Docker Swarm and Docker‑in‑Docker (DinD) capabilities.

Vaadin

Vaadin is a Java web framework that enables developers to build UI without writing HTML or JavaScript, using a server‑side architecture and Ajax communication.

JHipster

JHipster is a full‑stack Java development platform that scaffolds Maven + Spring + AngularJS projects and offers CLI tools for heterogeneous tech stacks.

SolidJS

SolidJS is a declarative, high‑performance JavaScript library for building user interfaces without a virtual DOM, compiling templates directly to real DOM nodes.

Redwood

Redwood is a full‑stack web framework that combines React, GraphQL, Prisma, TypeScript, Jest, and Storybook, offering Rails‑like conventions and serverless deployment options.

Next.js

Next.js is a lightweight framework for server‑rendered React applications, built on top of React, Webpack, and Babel.

Wasmtime

Wasmtime is a small, high‑performance WebAssembly and WASI runtime written in Rust, built on the Cranelift compiler and supporting multiple languages.

PyScript

PyScript enables embedding Python code directly in standard HTML, allowing Python to call JavaScript libraries and create web applications.

Hardhat

Hardhat is a professional Ethereum development environment and open‑source framework that streamlines coding, testing, and deploying DApps and smart contracts.

OpenFGA

OpenFGA is an open‑source fine‑grained authorization solution inspired by Zanzibar, offering a readable modeling language and API for building precise access‑control systems.

Sentry

Sentry is a real‑time event logging and aggregation platform built on Django that automatically captures Python exceptions for easy UI‑based inspection.

Appsmith

Appsmith is an open‑source low‑code framework for building admin panels, CRUD apps, and workflows with drag‑and‑drop components and JavaScript logic.

Spinnaker

Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform that enables rapid, multi‑cloud deployments with a single configuration.

Hypertrace

Hypertrace is an open‑source distributed tracing and observability engine that ingests real‑time performance data from cloud‑native architectures.

Gravitee

Gravitee API Gateway, built on Vert.x, provides high‑performance API management with Swagger import, analytics, auditing, and load balancing.

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is a high‑quality, portable telemetry framework for collecting metrics, logs, and traces across multiple languages and integrations.

Grafana

Grafana is an open‑source dashboard and graph editor supporting Graphite, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, and multiple data sources.

Dapr

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is a portable, serverless, event‑driven runtime that simplifies building resilient microservices across cloud and edge.

Redpanda

Redpanda is a Kafka‑compatible streaming platform written in C++ using the Seastar framework and Raft consensus, offering lower latency and higher throughput.

Iceberg

Iceberg is a high‑performance table format for large‑scale analytics, providing SQL‑like reliability across engines such as Spark, Trino, Flink, and Hive.

Druid

Druid is a high‑performance real‑time analytics database designed for OLAP workloads on large datasets with fault‑tolerant operation.

JAX

JAX is a TensorFlow‑style library that combines Autograd and XLA for high‑performance machine‑learning research, supporting automatic differentiation of complex Python functions.

nbdev

nbdev is a Jupyter‑Notebook‑driven development platform that generates documentation, tests, CI, and packages directly from notebooks.

Accelerate

Accelerate is a library that enables the same PyTorch code to run on any distributed configuration with just a few lines of code.

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a text‑to‑image AI model capable of generating high‑quality images, with community‑driven optimizations for speed and low‑memory GPUs.

EleutherAI

EleutherAI is a collective of AI researchers focused on open‑source large‑scale language models, including GPT‑NeoX‑20B and GPT‑J‑6B.