In this reflective talk, the speaker shares a decade of open‑source experience, highlighting how documentation‑first habits, asynchronous collaboration, product‑centric thinking, and genuine passion have shaped his work efficiency, leadership style, and career growth.
This article evaluates open‑source message‑queue options by examining company, middleware‑team, and end‑user criteria, then explains why RocketMQ’s low technical and labor costs, stability, rich features, high performance, built‑in management tools, monitoring support, and active community make it a cost‑effective choice over alternatives like Kafka and Pulsar.
The article examines YunOS’s rise and fall, its battles with Google, and how those experiences inform the challenges and opportunities facing Huawei’s HarmonyOS in the competitive mobile operating system landscape.
The article presents Zheng, a full‑stack J2EE enterprise solution that integrates Spring, MyBatis, Dubbo, and a rich set of micro‑service modules, detailing its architecture, technology stack, environment setup, deployment procedures, and coding conventions for building scalable backend systems.
Zhu Qi, the first iQIYI Hadoop Committer, illustrates how a decade‑long record of code contributions, deep understanding of distributed‑computing, and a company’s open‑source culture can transform a chemical‑materials graduate into a leading Apache Hadoop contributor, while the article outlines the Committer role and a three‑stage roadmap for aspiring contributors.
This tutorial shows developers how to use GitHub's advanced search syntax and filters—such as name, README, description, stars, forks, language, and push date—to quickly locate relevant, actively maintained open‑source repositories for learning and practice.
Celebrating Linux’s 30th anniversary, Linus Torvalds discusses the kernel’s evolution from a hobby project to a ubiquitous OS, the creation of Git, licensing choices, development processes, community governance, and future challenges, offering deep insights into open‑source engineering and collaborative software development.
This article details a step‑by‑step, low‑budget solution for creating an office HiFi system using a Raspberry Pi, HiFiBerry amp, Audioengine speakers, and the open‑source Volumio platform, covering hardware choices, software setup, and alternative playback options.
This article recounts how a former programmer became a deep‑learning evangelist, built Huawei’s MindSpore open‑source community, leveraged one‑minute videos, launched a hands‑on training camp and a lightweight tool, and fostered a thriving ecosystem that now serves over 190,000 developers.
This article curates thirteen high‑quality Spring Boot open‑source projects—ranging from e‑commerce platforms and microservice frameworks to payment systems and HR tools—providing star counts, repository links, brief feature overviews, and demo screenshots to help Java developers choose valuable reference implementations.
The takeover of the long‑standing Freenode IRC network by entrepreneur Andrew Lee triggered a wave of resignations, the creation of the rival Libera.Chat service, and a migration of major open‑source projects, raising concerns about governance, control, and the future of community‑driven communication platforms.
This article examines the ethical relationship between open‑source maintainers and users, arguing that maintainers owe nothing to users and that treating them rudely violates a fundamental social contract rooted in Kantian philosophy and the nature of freely shared code.
In this interview, Python’s creator discusses how the language was born, its unexpected rise in AI, its role in web and mobile development, thoughts on newer languages like Rust and TypeScript, version transitions, package management, quantum computing prospects, and his personal life and hobbies.
Apple, after acquiring the CUPS printing system in 2007 and switching its license to Apache 2.0, has ceased active development, delegating future enhancements to the OpenPrinting project, which is now building CUPS 2.4 with modern features and planning CUPS 3.0.
In a rapid wave of announcements, Apache has retired 13 Hadoop‑related open‑source projects, signaling a shift away from Hadoop toward newer technologies like Spark and prompting users and vendors to reassess their big‑data strategies.
ChaosBlade, Alibaba’s open‑source chaos engineering project now advancing through CNCF Sandbox, offers a comprehensive suite—including the chaosblade experiment tool and chaosblade‑box platform—to simulate over 200 scenarios across hosts, Kubernetes, and multi‑language applications, with automated deployment, extensible architecture, and enterprise adoption examples.
This article introduces the growing family of k*s projects—k0s, k1s, k3s, k9s, k14s and more—explaining their origins, key features, and how they differ from the mainstream Kubernetes distribution, offering a concise guide for cloud‑native developers.
This article explores the range of open‑source cloud platforms and tools—such as AppScale, Kubernetes, OpenStack, and monitoring solutions—highlighting how they provide flexible, cost‑effective alternatives to proprietary public‑cloud services for modern IT strategies.
Tendis, an open‑source distributed KV store developed by Tencent, combines full Redis protocol compatibility with RocksDB persistence, a decentralized gossip‑based cluster architecture, horizontal scalability to thousands of nodes, and cost‑effective hot‑cold data mixing, making it suitable for large‑scale, high‑throughput workloads.
This week’s developer newsletter spotlights NASA’s open‑source‑based Ingenuity helicopter soaring on Mars, JD’s ESG report and green cloud initiatives, NVIDIA’s record‑breaking AI inference GPUs, rapid growth of China’s public‑cloud market, Tsinghua’s new chip academy, Hugging Face’s Accelerate library for multi‑GPU training, plus cutting‑edge research on GAN IP protection and hierarchical task learning presented at CVPR and ICLR.
In this interview, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member Zhang Lei discusses the evolution of cloud native technologies, recent industry shifts, future directions, and practical advice for developers to stay competitive amid the rapid growth of the cloud native ecosystem.
This article introduces the open‑source Java‑based WeChat mini‑program mall, detailing its development plan, technology stack, project structure, core features, installation steps, configuration requirements, and visual page previews for developers interested in building or customizing the solution.
This article introduces a selection of Alibaba‑open‑source developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, PTS, KT, AHAS, EasyExcel, HandyJSON, EDAS Serverless, Druid, and Dragonwell—detailing their purpose, typical usage scenarios, tutorials, and where to obtain them, helping developers improve efficiency and reliability across various technology stacks.
This article surveys the 11 most popular open‑source DevOps tools—including Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Prometheus, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, JAMStack, and ELK Stack—while also highlighting the DevOps Foundation certification that helps professionals master these technologies.
This guide explains why KubeVela documentation needs Chinese translation, outlines the community‑organized translation activity, and provides detailed preparation steps, task workflow, local build commands, PR submission, review process, and final merge instructions for contributors.
This guide explains how to install and use the open‑source “IDE Eval Reset” plugin from plugins.zhile.io to extend the 30‑day trial of any JetBrains IDE on macOS or Windows, including setup steps, manual and auto‑reset options, and supported products.
This article introduces the PassJava open‑source interview‑question mini‑program, explains its cloud‑development and advanced Spring Cloud microservice versions, details deployment steps, database setup, code snippets, and provides links to the GitHub repositories and documentation.
This article shares a personal deep-dive into using Linux for daily development, communication, and multimedia, compares it with Windows, showcases Android app support via xDroid, and highlights Linux's elegance, efficiency, speed, low resource usage, and open-source freedom.
This article reviews Arthas’s rapid growth to over 25,000 GitHub stars, highlighting its technical advancements, release highlights, community contributions, usage statistics, and future roadmap, while providing code examples and links to its open‑source repositories and documentation.
This interview chronicles He Zhengyu’s journey from a prodigious student to a Google engineer and Ant Group leader, highlighting his role in shaping the Trusted Native initiative that combines cloud‑native, secure containers, confidential computing, and open‑source contributions to boost reliability and security for large‑scale financial services.
SysMonTask is an open‑source Linux system monitor that mimics the look of Windows Task Manager, offering CPU, memory, disk, network and GPU stats, customizable themes, process control, and easy installation via PPA on Ubuntu‑based distributions.
The article introduces Uncode, a conceptual cloud‑native IDE that treats the entire software lifecycle as code, explains its DSL‑driven architecture, file‑based storage, blockchain‑style traceability, and the technical stack choices, while providing concrete code examples and design patterns.
This article chronicles Linux’s 30‑year journey—from the early hobby of Linus Torvalds and the birth of the Tux mascot, through pivotal milestones such as the rise of distributions, corporate adoption, cloud supremacy, and the ongoing impact on modern computing.
This article presents a curated list of popular open‑source tools for monitoring, deployment, chaos testing, and reliability engineering, explaining their main features and how they help SREs and DevOps engineers build scalable, highly available cloud‑native systems.
The article introduces ChaosBlade‑Box, an open‑source cloud‑native chaos‑engineering console that builds on Alibaba’s ChaosBlade tool, explains the high‑availability challenges of cloud‑native systems, details the platform’s design, features, multi‑language support, deployment workflow, example experiments, and future roadmap for resilient architectures.
This article introduces the importance of APIs in modern software development and presents a curated list of fifteen leading open‑source API management platforms, detailing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, and developer portals to help developers choose the right solution.
This article evaluates eleven popular Redis visualization tools—desktop clients, web applications, and IDE plugins—detailing their features, platform support, pricing, and pros and cons, while providing URLs and screenshots to help developers choose the most efficient solution for debugging and monitoring.
The article reports Java 16’s official release, reveals that 1,897 JDK issues were fixed worldwide—with Oracle handling 1,397 and major contributions from Red Hat, SAP, Tencent and ARM—highlights Tencent’s open‑source Kona JDK 11, and invites readers to vote on the strongest Chinese Java company.
This article reviews several open‑source real‑time collaborative editing platforms—including Hackpad, Etherpad, Firepad, ownCloud Documents, Gobby, and ONLYOFFICE—highlighting their key features, licensing, source‑code repositories, and how they enable multiple users to edit, comment, and share documents simultaneously without the constraints of proprietary services.
In early 2020, the China Open Source Promotion Union and Peking University launched a credit‑bearing “Open Source Software Development Basics and Practice” course for graduate students, featuring 32 lecture hours, 24 project hours with industry partners like Didi, whose DoKit project—over 17,000 GitHub stars—served as the primary hands‑on experience, highlighting Didi’s broader open‑source contributions and commitment to nurturing open‑source talent in Chinese universities.
This article presents a curated list of fifteen Alibaba‑originated developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, Docsite, and more—detailing their purpose, typical use cases, tutorial links, and acquisition methods to help backend engineers boost productivity and reliability.
Atom is a free, open‑source, cross‑platform text and code editor built on Electron that supports plugins written in Node.js, includes built‑in Git integration, and has recently received numerous updates to its core, GitHub package, and various dependencies.
RT-Thread is an open‑source, highly scalable IoT real‑time operating system written in C, offering ultra‑low resource footprints, modular components, extensive software package ecosystem, and cross‑platform support from tiny nano kernels to full‑featured ARM and MIPS systems.
This article introduces the Forest HTTP client framework, showing how it abstracts diverse third‑party API differences through configuration and annotations, provides easy Spring Boot integration, and offers powerful features like template expressions, HTTPS support, and extensive request customization.
This guide shares nine practical techniques—including issue templates, code linting, unit testing, commit‑message enforcement, continuous integration, GitHub badges, npm‑package monitoring, changelog automation, and contribution guidelines—to help front‑end teams efficiently maintain and scale open‑source projects like San CLI.
Huawei announced that its flagship phones will begin upgrading to HarmonyOS starting in April, aiming for 300 million devices this year—including 200 million phones—and emphasized that the OS builds on open‑source AOSP code while striving to surpass Android in the era of ubiquitous connectivity.
This article explains what edge computing is, its origins with IoT and 5G, current industry developments, key advantages such as low latency and security, and introduces open‑source projects like Apache Edgent with example code for real‑time data processing.
A recent DDoSecrets leak revealed that Gab’s new CTO introduced a simple SQL injection flaw in the Rails codebase, allowing hackers to steal 70 GB of user data, prompting the CEO’s public apology, code deletions, and a stark reminder of the importance of secure coding practices.
The article presents Sogou's open‑source C++ Workflow framework, highlighting its industrial‑grade performance, simple asynchronous API for servers and clients, benchmark results, and key features such as integrated task scheduling, extensive documentation, and real‑world adoption across many companies.
This article curates a selection of high‑quality open‑source Spring Boot admin systems—including SmartAdmin, litemall, Timo, mall4j, web‑flash, and SPTools—detailing their key features, technology stacks, and repository links to help developers quickly adopt robust backend management solutions.
Casbin is an open‑source access‑control framework that supports multiple programming languages, offers customizable request formats, role inheritance, super‑user shortcuts, and built‑in matchers, while delegating authentication and user management to other components.
This article examines government‑level open‑source migrations, contrasting Munich’s troubled LiMux experience with Turkey’s successful Pardus rollout, and outlines the strategic steps, training programs, and technical customizations that enabled a large‑scale switch from Windows to Linux in public administration.
This article introduces PostgreSQL as a powerful open‑source object‑relational database, outlines its key features and typical use cases, and provides a detailed, screenshot‑rich walkthrough for downloading, installing, and configuring PostgreSQL and pgAdmin on Windows.
The Dapr v1.0 release announces a production‑ready, Kubernetes‑focused runtime that delivers low‑latency service calls, robust security, a growing component ecosystem, and multi‑language SDKs, while showcasing real‑world case studies and outlining future roadmap priorities for cloud‑native developers.
The GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Report, produced by X‑lab and multiple research institutions, analyzes 860 million event logs, 54.21 million active repositories and 14.54 million developers to reveal growth trends, activity metrics, regional distributions, project influence networks (OpenGalaxy), and monthly‑star highlights, offering actionable insights for open‑source governance and community management.
The Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars using a sky‑crane system, carried the first open‑source Linux flight software and the Ingenuity helicopter powered by a Snapdragon 801 chip, and now begins a suite of scientific and technology‑demonstration missions while China’s Tianwen‑1 prepares its own landing.
FastReID, an open‑source PyTorch library from JD AI Research, offers a modular architecture, model distillation, automatic hyper‑parameter search, and multi‑task support, enabling efficient large‑scale object re‑identification across diverse applications such as security, retail, and smart infrastructure.
This article introduces DBeaver, a free open‑source, Java‑based universal database client that supports a wide range of databases via JDBC, outlines its rich features, and provides step‑by‑step installation and connection setup instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
InfoSpider is an open‑source Python‑based web‑scraping toolbox that securely aggregates personal data from over 24 sources—including email, e‑commerce, and social platforms—provides a GUI for easy operation, stores results in JSON, and offers basic visual analysis, making personal data integration and insight generation straightforward.
This article introduces DBeaver, a free open‑source, cross‑platform database management tool that supports numerous databases via JDBC, outlines its rich features such as data editors, ER diagrams, import/export, and provides step‑by‑step installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus tips for creating connections.
This article presents a curated table of open‑source data‑quality tools, describing each project's purpose, programming language, documentation, popularity metrics and providing inclusion criteria for selecting suitable software across diverse data‑processing environments.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Oasis Engine, detailing its component‑based architecture, TypeScript implementation, key features such as Transform, resource and shader systems, its stability and performance achievements, historical development phases, and future roadmap for cross‑platform and open‑source enhancements.
The article presents Netflix’s open‑source Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework, detailing its purpose, core features, schema‑first development approach, practical usage examples, integration with the GraphQL ecosystem, support for federation, modular architecture, distributed tracing, and how developers can get started with the project.
The Linux 5.8 kernel, despite its record‑breaking size, remains maintainable thanks to a disciplined Git‑based workflow that follows seven fundamental principles, continuous testing, and a culture of trust that together set a gold standard for large‑scale open‑source development.
This article curates a collection of actively maintained high‑fidelity clone projects for popular apps—including WeChat, Zhihu, TikTok, Bilibili, Meituan, and more—showcasing the tech stacks (Flutter, Vue, React, Node.js, etc.), core features, screenshots, and direct GitHub links to help developers learn and build similar applications.
This week’s developer newsletter highlights Google’s new TReCS framework for text‑image translation, OpenAI’s massive 7,500‑node Kubernetes scaling for machine learning, Apache ECharts 5 release, WebRTC becoming an official standard, China’s autonomous "长安链" blockchain, JD’s open‑source FaceX‑Zoo toolkit, and two AAAI 2021 papers on graph diffusion traffic forecasting and label‑confusion‑enhanced text classification.
This article traces Linus Torvalds' journey from studying operating systems with Minix to creating the Linux kernel, highlighting the technical choices, community dynamics, and historical factors that turned a personal project into the foundation of modern open‑source computing.
This roundup highlights Glassdoor’s 2020 job ranking with Java developers leading, Firefox’s decision to drop desktop PWA support, Edge’s new enterprise PWA features, Google’s MicroDroid minimal Android project, Twitter’s open‑source iOS text‑editor API, and Apache Superset’s rise as a premier data‑visualization platform.
A recent discovery reveals that Apple’s open‑source file make_tapi_happy.h includes a humorous "only god knows why" comment about WeChat compatibility, highlighting how business negotiations can leave quirky traces in source code.
The article details Elastic's shift of Elasticsearch and Kibana from Apache 2.0 to SSPL/Elastic License, the ensuing dispute with AWS over alleged coercion and trademark issues, AWS's plan to fork the projects under Apache 2.0, and the broader community backlash against the licensing change.
At the 2021 Didi Open‑Source Summit, leaders highlighted 2020’s breakthroughs—including 63 released projects earning 72,000 GitHub stars, top‑five Chinese and global‑top‑100 rankings, major contributions such as the DELTA NLP donation and mask‑detection tool—while unveiling a dual‑cycle internal strategy, a new Didi Open‑Source Foundation, award‑winning projects like DoKit, and the company’s new Apache Software Foundation Silver Membership.
This weekly roundup covers ShardingSphere's top‑5 ranking among Chinese‑led open‑source projects, Taro's entry into the 2020 China Open‑Source TOP4, Raspberry Pi Pico's $4 launch, Visual Studio's native WSL 2 support, Elasticsearch's license shift, Facebook's AI for the visually impaired, JD's future‑tech whitepaper, an AAAI paper on modal‑free segmentation, and SimCLR applied to NLP pre‑training.
The 2020 China Open‑Source Annual Report highlights Taro’s rapid rise to the fourth‑ranked open‑source project, showcasing its cross‑platform capabilities, active community, industry collaborations, and extensive real‑world deployments that illustrate why it stands out among China’s top five projects.
This article showcases fourteen of the most renowned programmers worldwide, presenting their key achievements, notable honors, and memorable community quotes, while providing images that illustrate each legend's impact on software development, open source, and computer science.
The 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report shows a surge in code repositories, users and projects, highlights rapid growth of languages like Rust and Dart, underscores Java’s dominance, and details new community initiatives and features that reshaped China’s open‑source ecosystem last year.
This article introduces DBeaver, a Java‑based, cross‑platform, open‑source database client that supports a wide range of JDBC and non‑JDBC data sources, outlines its key features, provides installation steps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and shows how to create and use database connections.
This article introduces DBeaver, a free open‑source, Java‑based universal database management and development tool, outlines its rich features, supported databases, and provides step‑by‑step installation and connection setup instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.
This article traces the origins of Unix and Linux, explains how Linux emerged as an open‑source clone of Unix, compares their licensing, portability, community support, and usage in data centers and devices, and highlights the key distinctions that set the two operating systems apart.
This article compiles and evaluates the ten most popular free open‑source admin dashboard UI frameworks, presenting their GitHub star counts, repository links, core features, and visual previews to help developers choose a suitable solution for backend management interfaces.
Google will enforce a new Play Store rule requiring all Android apps to use its payment system from September 2021, while GitHub’s 2020 report shows explosive growth in developers, a reshuffling of language popularity, and a surge in open‑source activity driven by the pandemic.
This weekly roundup covers a Chinese open‑source JD seckill script topping GitHub trends, a severe Btrfs slowdown in Linux 5.10, native Linux WeChat for UOS, Flash Player removal, Mi 11 kernel open‑source, Ruby 3.0 launch, record app‑store spending, Linux ported to Nintendo N64, DeepMind's MuZero AI, and Huawei's leading Linux‑5.10 contributions.
This article introduces a lightweight, open‑source netdisk system built with a front‑end Vue.js interface and a back‑end micro‑service architecture using SpringBoot, Dubbo, Zookeeper, Redis, Solr, and FastDFS, detailing its deployment, technology stack, and core features for file management and integration.
In 2020 I joined Alibaba's ASoC program, explored Seata's Druid‑based SQL parser, replaced it with an Antlr‑generated solution, tackled spacing bugs by overriding visitTerminal, and reflected on the open‑source contribution experience that enhanced Seata's distributed‑transaction capabilities.
This article introduces five free, downloadable JavaScript/CSS3 countdown effect templates for the 2021 New Year, each with a brief description, preview image, and direct download link for developers to integrate into their web projects.
The article examines the growing practice of buying GitHub stars, explains why developers resort to it to boost job prospects, highlights how it conflicts with open‑source principles, recounts historical resistance and eventual embrace of open source by Microsoft, and urges the community to reject star‑buying schemes.
Celebrating two decades of the open‑source FFmpeg project, this article explains how its multimedia decoding libraries underpin popular video players and major platforms, recounts the 2011 split that birthed Libav, discusses licensing obligations under LGPL/GPL, and reveals the infamous “shame pillar” list of software that ignored those rules.
An open‑source PyTorch‑based project enables users to remove unwanted objects from videos simply by drawing a bounding box around them, offering a practical demo, step‑by‑step instructions, and a GitHub repository with over 2 k stars.
This article traces Linus Torvalds' journey from studying operating systems with Minix to creating the Linux monolithic kernel, highlighting the historical context, technical choices, community collaboration, GNU involvement, and the factors that propelled Linux to dominate modern computing.
The article explains how the open‑source Depix tool uses AI to decode pixelated or censored text, outlines its algorithm based on De Bruijn sequences, provides usage instructions, and also highlights the related PULSE AI up‑sampling technique for restoring low‑resolution images.
This article presents a curated collection of twelve popular open‑source Vue.js admin dashboard projects, providing their documentation URLs, live demo links, and license types so developers can quickly evaluate and adopt the right UI framework for their backend interfaces.
The article provides a comprehensive overview of the open‑source RISC‑V instruction set, its historical development, technical benefits such as modularity and a minimal instruction set, and its growing relevance across IoT, mobile, server, storage, AI, and security domains, while also discussing ecosystem challenges and industry initiatives.
Tencent’s open‑source alliance unveiled three new projects, highlighted a decade‑long open‑source roadmap, and outlined a dual internal‑external loop model that drives community collaboration, technology innovation, and commercial value across cloud, AI, blockchain, 5G and IoT.
This article introduces twelve popular open‑source Python frameworks—including Django, Tornado, Twisted, Pulsar, Bottle, Diesel, NumPy, Scrapy, Cubes, Falcon, Web2py, and Zerorpc—detailing their key features, typical use cases, and providing direct project URLs for developers seeking robust solutions.
Super‑Jacoco is an open‑source, one‑stop Java coverage platform that extends JaCoCo with Git diff analysis to provide low‑overhead, non‑intrusive full‑run and incremental (diff) coverage for unit, functional, and environment tests, offering distributed scalability and HTML visual reports for easy insight.
This article presents a comprehensive catalog of more than seventy Baidu‑released open‑source projects, spanning front‑end UI libraries, data‑visualization tools, mobile frameworks, backend services, RPC frameworks, databases, AI platforms, and various development utilities for developers to explore and adopt.
GraphScope, an open‑source one‑stop platform from Alibaba DAMO Academy, unifies interactive queries, graph analytics, and graph learning on massive, rapidly evolving graphs, offering high‑performance distributed memory management, Gremlin optimization, and seamless Python integration to tackle real‑world AI and big‑data challenges.
The article explains Red Hat’s decision to replace traditional CentOS Linux with the rolling‑release CentOS Stream, outlines the impact on stability and support timelines, examines community backlash, and introduces Rocky Linux as a potential community‑driven alternative for enterprise servers.
The author shares his personal journey from first encountering Flink to becoming an Apache Flink Committer at ByteDance, detailing community involvement, code contributions, bug fixes, lessons learned, advice for newcomers, and concluding with promotional offers for Flink services.
This article introduces several widely used open source licenses—including BSD, Apache License 2.0, GPL, LGPL, MIT, MPL, and EPL—explaining their main permissions, obligations, and suitability for commercial software development.
The article chronicles Linus Torvalds' journey from a university student building a Unix‑compatible OS on a 386, through his creation of the monolithic Linux kernel, the historic debate with Tanenbaum over micro‑ versus macro‑kernels, and the myriad technical, community, and market forces that propelled Linux to worldwide dominance.
