This article explains how to use an open‑source CMDB to build customizable dashboards, covering five chart types, multi‑model and multi‑dimensional statistics, CI‑related metrics, and data filtering, with step‑by‑step configuration examples and visual illustrations.
The article analyzes the rapid growth of the global cloud storage market, explains core technologies such as software‑defined storage, distributed storage and hyper‑convergence, reviews major vendors and market forecasts, and discusses the evolving ecosystem of operating systems and open‑source initiatives driving future infrastructure development.
The SQLE 2.2309.0-pre3 release introduces a fast SQL audit feature, adds numerous MySQL audit rules, provides detailed community and enterprise version updates, and includes links to the repository, documentation, and previous versions for comprehensive usage and evaluation.
The article explores Debian’s reputation for stability and slow updates, explains its three release branches, highlights its influence on other distributions and the cloud, and discusses the challenges and opportunities for wider adoption, especially in China.
GitHub stars, while a vanity metric, influence project selection and investment decisions, leading to a market where stars are bought and sold; this article examines star pricing, common fraud patterns, and how unsupervised clustering and specialized tools can identify and mitigate fake-star activity.
Debian, often labeled as slow and conservative, offers a stable, well‑tested release strategy with three branches—Stable, Testing, and Unstable—making it ideal for developers who prioritize reliability over rapid updates, while still powering major services, cloud infrastructure, and countless derivative distributions.
Security researchers have identified four high‑severity buffer‑overflow vulnerabilities (CVE‑2023‑40031, CVE‑2023‑40036, CVE‑2023‑40164, CVE‑2023‑40166) in the popular open‑source editor Notepad++, disclosed after the developers failed to patch them before the release of version 8.5.6, urging users to apply mitigations.
Puck, Baidu’s open‑source Approximate Nearest Neighbor engine built on the proprietary Puck and Tinker algorithms, delivers high recall, accuracy and throughput across tiny to trillion‑scale datasets, outperforms rivals in benchmarks—including first‑place BIGANN 2021—while offering a simple, extensible API, proven reliability in dozens of Baidu services, and an Apache 2.0 license encouraging community contributions.
Meta introduced Code Llama, a Llama 2‑based AI coding model available in base, Python‑specific, and instruction‑tuned versions across 7B, 13B, and 34B sizes, claiming superior benchmark performance and free community licensing for research and commercial use.
Following the death of Vim’s creator Bram Moolenaar, core developers Christian Brabandt and Ken Takata discuss taking over the project, outline plans for Vim 9.1, explore the relationship with Neovim, address website hosting challenges, and consider broader strategies for sustaining open‑source projects after a maintainer’s loss.
At SECon Shanghai 2023, Synopsys highlighted the expanding attack surface of modern software supply chains, citing the lingering Log4j vulnerability, Gartner's 2025 forecast, and new regulations, while outlining legal, tooling, and consulting measures to mitigate hidden security risks.
This article explains what an API gateway is, why it is needed in micro‑service architectures, outlines key design considerations such as routing, load‑balancing, resilience and security, and compares popular open‑source gateway solutions like OpenResty, Kong, Zuul and Spring Cloud Gateway.
ByteDance’s streaming computing team members Fang Yong and Hu Weihua share their path from early Flink adopters to Apache Flink Committers, detailing their contributions to Runtime Coordinator and Streaming Warehouse, the challenges of open‑source involvement, and practical advice for developers seeking to engage with the Flink community.
This guide reviews the most popular ETL and data integration tools—including Kettle, DataX, DataPipeline, Talend, DataStage, Sqoop, FineDataLink, and Canal—detailing their core features, architectures, and typical use cases to help you choose the right solution for data migration and synchronization.
The article examines recent data showing PostgreSQL’s rapid rise over the past decade, its strong performance in the 2023 StackOverflow survey, growing adoption by cloud providers like Google and AWS, and the reasons developers favor its open‑source reliability and extensibility.
This article introduces the open‑source FaceChain AI portrait generation project, detailing background, demo results, environment setup on ModelScope notebooks, step‑by‑step usage instructions, and an in‑depth explanation of the Stable Diffusion‑based LoRA training and inference pipeline.
Three major IT companies—SUSE, Oracle, and CIQ—have formed the Open ELA alliance to provide source code for RHEL‑compatible downstream Linux distributions, offering a community‑driven alternative after Red Hat’s termination of CentOS, aiming to ensure stable, secure, and freely redistributable enterprise Linux.
Bram Moolenaar, the Dutch programmer who created Vim, passed away at 62, leaving a legacy of open‑source innovation, charitable work in Uganda, and a community that continues to honor his contributions through tributes, reflections on Vim’s history, and ongoing development.
Vim’s creator Bram Moolenaar, a Dutch programmer who pioneered the ‘charity software’ model, passed away in August 2023, leaving a legacy that includes the Vim editor, the AAP build tool, the Zimbu language, and a lasting impact on developers worldwide.
This article examines the open‑source AutoDev project, outlining its assumptions about private LLMs, the three assistance modes it provides for IDEs, technical implementation details, integration challenges, and broader thoughts on LLMs as developer copilots.
This article introduces DripTable, a JD‑open‑source, React‑based enterprise table framework that uses JSON Schema for low‑code configuration, outlines its features, advantages, usage scenarios, and provides step‑by‑step installation and code examples for both the visual configuration side and the runtime side.
This article explains what an SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is, its purpose for software supply‑chain visibility and risk management, compares it with SLSA and Black Duck, outlines best‑practice recommendations, and lists popular tools for generating SBOMs.
AlterShield is an open‑source, end‑to‑end change‑control platform that systematizes change perception, risk analysis, and defense across distributed cloud‑native environments, enabling SRE teams to mitigate stability risks through standardized protocols, incremental rollout, and automated observability checks.
From laser cutting and gaming to office tasks, music production, retro computing, and server power, Linux proves it can handle a wide range of unexpected and creative uses beyond traditional desktop or server roles.
This weekly newsletter curates top database and MySQL technical articles, announces new SQLE open‑source features and roadmap, and highlights upcoming community events, providing readers with concise, actionable insights into performance optimization, tooling updates, and open‑source initiatives.
This article explains the definition, licensing, MITRE system engineer responsibilities, government policies, and best‑practice recommendations for adopting open source software in large‑scale system engineering, emphasizing cost, security, certification, community interaction, and risk mitigation.
This guide compiles a comprehensive list of the best open‑source DevOps tools—including version control systems, build automation, CI/CD platforms, container runtimes, configuration managers, and monitoring solutions—explaining their core features and typical use cases for modern software delivery pipelines.
At Collision 2023, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned governments to curb AI before it outsmarts humanity, while industry leaders announced NTT DATA’s global generative AI lab, the release of Svelte 4, GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9, new Linux kernel versions, and Uno Platform’s VS Code extension for mobile debugging.
kkFileView is an open‑source Spring Boot‑based service that enables online preview of a wide range of document, image, archive and multimedia formats, offering multiple rendering modes and easy REST integration for developers.
This article compares popular Linux distributions—Ubuntu and Fedora—examining their package managers, desktop environments, stability, community support, and migration challenges, while also highlighting alternative distros like Bodhi Linux and Linux Lite to help developers choose the most suitable OS for their workflow.
KubeSkoop, an open‑source tool from Alibaba Cloud, automates Kubernetes container network diagnosis by building traffic paths, collecting eBPF and IaaS data, and pinpointing root causes for connectivity and jitter issues, supporting major CNI plugins and offering deep network monitoring with Prometheus integration.
Tencent has donated its high‑performance OpenKona JDK compiler to the Open Atom Open‑Source Foundation, offering up to 15% better performance than standard OpenJDK and supporting domestic CPUs and operating systems, making it a significant contribution to the Java ecosystem.
DBeaver is a free, open‑source, cross‑platform database client that supports virtually every major database, offers plugin extensions, visual data tools, theme options, backup/restore, and a powerful SQL editor, with a step‑by‑step guide to download, configure drivers, connect, and run queries.
This article curates recent developer‑focused updates, covering ChatGPT‑generated Windows keys, Ubuntu 23.10’s upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.3, China’s UOS reaching 5 million installs, BentoML’s OpenLLM 0.1.6 release, 7‑Zip 23.01 enhancements, and the new Tauri 1.4 desktop framework.
Quarkc, the HelloBike‑developed framework‑agnostic web component toolkit, builds native Web Components without hidden magic, letting developers write once and run anywhere across Vue, React, Svelte, Angular and plain HTML, while offering a tiny bundle size, high performance and simple npm‑based setup.
The Rust project has introduced a new top‑level governance body, the Rust Leadership Council, replacing the core team with representatives from nine top‑level teams to address past governance issues and improve coordination across the community.
Zed, a Rust‑written collaborative code editor created by the original Atom author, offers superior startup speed and low memory usage compared with Electron‑based editors, and introduces an unconventional "open source Zed on Zed" plan that lets contributors use the editor itself to develop and improve the project.
Apache Doris is an open‑source MPP OLAP database that combines a minimalist architecture, ease of use, rich features such as partition‑bucket pruning, materialized views, and bitmap indexes, and provides high‑performance, scalable, and reliable data warehousing for big‑data analytics.
This article examines how the open‑source Kubernetes project orchestrates its software releases by detailing the community’s SIG‑Town structure, the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) workflow, the roles of SIG‑Release and release teams, and the typical three‑month release cadence, while also discussing the broader challenges of open‑source collaboration.
This article introduces DBeaver, an open‑source, cross‑platform database management tool, outlines its key features, provides step‑by‑step usage instructions, and shares the project’s GitHub link, helping developers efficiently handle MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and many other databases.
In a Stanford eCorner interview, Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of OpenAI and architect of GPT, reflects on the history of large language models, compares AI to human cognition, debates open‑source versus closed‑source models, discusses regulation, training strategies, and offers guidance for aspiring AI researchers.
The article recaps a Beijing offline salon where experts and open‑source contributors discussed ChatGPT desktop applications, the development and deployment of ChatGPT‑Next‑Web, large‑language‑model challenges, the VisualGLM multimodal model, and product design considerations, providing technical insights and community perspectives on AI advancements.
Tencent has donated its high‑performance OpenKona JDK to the Open Source China foundation, offering the full source code, build infrastructure and national‑cryptography support, and already powers over a million servers across more than 120 companies, promising a domestic alternative for Java development in big‑data, AI and cloud scenarios.
Chinese domestic database vendors have surged from 27.1% to 55.4% market share between 2018 and 2022, but this growth raises questions about technical parity, global competitiveness, branding, and the need for honest, innovation‑driven strategies to sustain long‑term success.
This article explains the SLSA (Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts) framework, outlines common software supply‑chain threats, details the four SLSA levels and their requirements, discusses limitations, and reviews tools such as OpenSSF Scorecard, slsa‑verifier and Sigstore for improving software artifact integrity.
This weekly newsletter curates top industry tech articles covering SQL deployment capabilities, MySQL replication issues, LLM‑to‑SQL benchmarks, connection limit errors, OceanBase tracing, and provides an open‑source SQL quality management platform update with development progress and upcoming plans.
This article introduces a comprehensive open-source Hospital Information System (HIS) project built with Spring Cloud and Spring Boot 2.x, detailing its functional modules, architecture diagram, backend and frontend technology stacks, deployment plans, and the public repository link.
DBSyncer is an open‑source middleware that synchronizes data across multiple databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SqlServer, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka and files, offering custom plug‑in development, real‑time monitoring, performance alerts, and detailed configuration guides for various connectors and use cases.
Twitter has open‑sourced its core recommendation algorithm, detailing its candidate sources, in‑network and out‑of‑network ranking models, graph‑based and embedding methods, and a comprehensive list of components that power the home timeline, with links to the GitHub repositories and engineering blog.
ChaosMeta is an open‑source, cloud‑native chaos engineering platform derived from Ant Group's internal XMonkey system, offering a complete lifecycle solution, risk catalog, and extensive Kubernetes fault‑injection capabilities to help users discover and mitigate potential system risks through automated experiments.
A veteran Android developer named David quit after Google permanently banned his AdMob and AdSense accounts for placing a bottom navigation bar too close to banner ads, prompting him to open‑source his three apps and offer recommendations to improve Google’s ad‑policy enforcement for developers.
This article reviews the ten most effective Linux antivirus tools, explains why protection is essential despite Linux's inherent security, and provides concise descriptions of each solution—including Avast, Chkrootkit, ESET NOD32, F‑PROT, Panda Cloud Cleaner, Rootkit Hunter, ClamAV, Firetools, Comodo, and Sophos—to help users choose the right protection for their systems.
LakeSoul, China's only open‑source lakehouse project, has been donated to the LF AI & Data Foundation, becoming its first lake‑warehouse framework and offering ACID‑guaranteed high‑concurrency upserts, a high‑performance Rust‑based I/O layer, real‑time data‑warehouse capabilities, and seamless AI/BI integration for modern big‑data applications.
The article reviews DataEase, a Chinese open‑source business‑intelligence platform that offers a low‑learning‑curve interface, extensive data‑source support, built‑in template marketplace, and Docker‑based one‑command installation, making data visualization and dashboard creation accessible to a broad range of users.
This article recounts how Linus Torvalds, inspired by the teaching OS Minix, created Linux as a monolithic kernel, detailing the technical debates, community dynamics, and key conditions that turned Linux into the dominant open‑source operating system we know today.
This article chronicles Linus Torvalds' early OS experiments, the transition from Minix to Linux, the microkernel versus monolithic debate, and the key technical, community, and market forces that propelled Linux to become the dominant open‑source operating system.
This interview chronicles Wang Zhiwei’s journey from a university student experimenting with GitHub to the CTO of AntV, highlighting how his 100‑line Echarts‑for‑React component launched a thriving open‑source career, shaped Ant Group’s culture, and offers practical advice for developers eager to contribute to open source.
Alibaba Cloud’s PAI platform unveils TePDist, an HLO‑based automatic distributed deep‑learning system that decouples strategy search from model code, offers client/server architecture, supports SPMD and pipeline parallelism, delivers high performance on GPT, MoE and other models, and is now open‑source.
This article reviews several popular open‑source monitoring tools—Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Nightingale, and Open‑Falcon—detailing their core features, data collection methods, visualization capabilities, and typical use cases for IT operations.
This article shares Guan LeiMing’s 15‑year open‑source journey and practical guidance on how developers can select, contribute to, and benefit from open‑source projects, illustrated by a real‑world DataX‑OBS plugin case on Huawei Cloud.
This weekly roundup curates the latest high‑quality technical shares on databases, featuring articles about PolarDB HTAP acceleration, MySQL datetime precision, new MySQL releases, ChatGPT as a database client, and the SQLE platform's recent enhancements and upcoming plans.
The article explores the remarkable number of groundbreaking computer technologies originating from Nordic countries, such as Linux, MySQL, V8, and Unity, and analyzes how superior education, early IT exposure, generous welfare, and a culture that encourages innovation have fostered this success.
The article examines the rapid proliferation of large language models, weighing both the opportunities for experimentation and the drawbacks of noise, and argues that establishing authoritative Chinese LLM evaluation benchmarks is essential to guide meaningful progress in the field.
The article analyses SQL’s fundamental shortcomings—its lack of ordered collections, incomplete set semantics, and missing object‑reference support—illustrates these issues with concrete query examples, and argues that the open‑source Structured Process Language (SPL) solves them with true ordering, full collection handling, and native reference mechanisms.
Discover four powerful open‑source server applications—Samba, Snapdrop, VLC, and PulseAudio—that run on Linux, enabling seamless file sharing, peer‑to‑peer transfers, media streaming, and flexible audio networking across devices on your local network.
This article examines the challenges of 3D vision data acquisition and explains how Baidu's PaddleDepth and Paddle3D toolkits provide low‑cost depth collection, super‑resolution, and end‑to‑end perception pipelines, showcasing performance on KITTI and Middlebury datasets with code examples.
The DTLE 4.23.04.0 release introduces numerous MySQL‑focused enhancements and bug fixes—including timestamp handling, UUID processing, transaction retry logic, UTF‑8 support, and API improvements—while providing download links, repository information, and recommended reading for users of this open‑source data transfer component.
This article reviews five free or open‑source MySQL client applications—MySQL Workbench, phpMyAdmin, HeidiSQL, Sequel Pro, and DBeaver—detailing their main features, supported platforms, and how they help developers and DBAs design, query, and manage MySQL databases.
Explore four open‑source servers that run on Linux—Samba for Windows file sharing, Snapdrop for peer‑to‑peer file transfer, VLC for multimedia streaming, and PulseAudio for flexible network audio—each with brief descriptions and project links.
This article outlines the motivations for building a comprehensive data platform, describes the measurement and tailoring approach, details WeDataSphere’s architecture—including DataSphere Studio and Apache Linkis middleware—and shares the open‑source roadmap and future vision for the platform.
Moonbox is an open‑source, JVM‑Sandbox‑based platform that records and replays traffic to generate automated regression tests, offering visual management, rich plugins, multiple deployment options, high performance and safety features, and aims to simplify testing for developers while fostering community contributions.
Twitter has open‑sourced its recommendation algorithm, detailing a complex pipeline of candidate sources, graph‑based models, embedding techniques, and ranking services that together generate personalized home‑timeline tweets for users.
The 2023 DAMS China Data Intelligence Management Summit in Shanghai featured a technical presentation by Zhang Shenbo on an open‑source SQLE solution for SQL quality control, covering multi‑database auditing, automated review workflows, and practical tips to reduce DBA workload and cross‑department communication.
Elon Musk opened Twitter's recommendation algorithm on GitHub, sparking massive interest as the community dissected its weighting rules, revealing that likes, retweets, and follows receive dramatically higher influence than other signals.
Twitter has released the source code of its recommendation algorithm, revealing a three‑stage pipeline that collects, ranks with machine‑learning models, and filters tweets to balance content from followed and unfollowed accounts while optimizing for user engagement.
This article examines the open‑source Twitter recommendation algorithm released by Elon Musk, detailing its main services, machine‑learning models, data sources, programming languages, and the GitHub repositories that host the core components such as SimClusters, TwHIN, rankers, and the Rust‑based navi framework.
Microsoft announced a dedicated Faster CPython team, led by Mark Shannon and Guido van Rossum, to boost Python’s execution speed through a multi‑stage plan that has already delivered 10‑60% performance gains in Python 3.11 while emphasizing community collaboration and open‑source contributions.
Docker Hub announced that free organization accounts will lose access to private repositories after April 14 unless upgraded to a paid plan, prompting community backlash, outlining the continued availability of public images, and reviewing alternative container solutions such as Podman and Containerd.
This article introduces four open‑source server‑type applications—Samba, Snapdrop, VLC, and PulseAudio—explaining their core functions, basic configuration steps, and where to obtain their source code, helping Linux users set up file sharing, peer‑to‑peer transfers, media streaming, and network audio.
This guide reviews eight popular ETL and data migration tools—including Kettle, DataX, DataPipeline, Talend, DataStage, Sqoop, FineDataLink, and Canal—detailing their core features, architectures, and use cases to help engineers choose the right solution for reliable data integration.
This article introduces ten open‑source cloud security solutions—including Wazuh, Osquery, GoAudit, Grapl, OSSEC, Suricata, Zeek, Panther, Kali Linux, and PacBot—explaining their key features, deployment options, and how they help enterprises protect SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments.
Echo is a full‑stack open‑source Java community system built with Spring Boot, MyBatis, MySQL, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch, offering modules like posts, comments and notifications, and the article provides its core tech stack, development environment, local setup steps, deployment architecture, demo screenshots and source code access.
Tencent’s 2022 R&D report shows that three‑quarters of its staff are developers, with over 7,000 new projects, 29.4 billion new code lines, and a 60 % reduction in build time after moving to cloud‑native DevOps, while Go tops language usage and open‑source contributions exceed 80 %.
Explore a comprehensive overview of eight popular ETL and data migration tools—including Kettle, DataX, DataPipeline, Talend, DataStage, Sqoop, FineDataLink, and Canal—detailing their features, architectures, and use cases to help you choose the right solution for efficient data integration.
The article recounts curl creator Daniel Stenberg's celebration of the project's 25th anniversary, highlighting its evolution from a modest URL client to a ubiquitous command‑line tool supporting dozens of protocols, with over 10 billion installations and a vibrant open‑source community.
This article introduces a unified User‑Defined Function (UDF) solution on a cloud data platform, detailing its remote execution architecture, compatibility with Hive UDFs, resource isolation, hot‑update capabilities, internal platform implementation, open‑source contributions to PrestoDB, and future work plans.
Spug is a lightweight, agentless automation platform for small and medium enterprises that integrates host management, batch execution, online terminal, deployment, scheduling, configuration, monitoring and alerting, and the article provides step‑by‑step Docker and docker‑compose installation instructions to set up the system.
Alibaba’s open‑source Neural Approximate Nearest Neighbor (NANN) library decouples index learning from model training, enabling any TensorFlow‑based deep model to perform high‑throughput, high‑accuracy HNSW‑based retrieval with GPU multi‑streaming, XLA acceleration, graph optimizations, and adversarial training that mitigates L2‑distance mismatch, all supported by ready‑to‑use benchmarks and demos.
Over two years, NetEase Yanxuan built and open‑sourced OSSA, a Taro UI component library created to unify multi‑platform mini‑program development, detailing why Taro was chosen, the challenges of enterprise‑grade reliability and community building, and how automated CI/CD, documentation, MIT licensing, and contributor guides enable sustainable open‑source growth.
MaxKey is an open-source, Apache-licensed SSO platform that supports major authentication protocols, offers extensive login methods, provides multi-tenant IAM features, and includes detailed Linux deployment steps with code snippets and interface screenshots, making it a comprehensive solution for enterprise identity management.
Rspack, a Rust‑written web bundler from ByteDance, is officially released as an open‑source project offering dramatically faster dev and build times, strong Webpack compatibility, flexible configuration, and a roadmap that includes richer loader support, advanced caching, plugin APIs, and quality‑assurance measures.
This article provides an overview of the most popular ETL tools—both open‑source and commercial—explaining their core features, use cases, and how they simplify data extraction, transformation, and loading for modern data‑driven applications.
This article introduces the concept of ETL, explains its importance for modern data‑driven applications, and provides a comprehensive comparison of the most popular open‑source and commercial ETL platforms—including their key features, supported data sources, and deployment options—helping readers choose the right tool for their data integration needs.
This guide reviews the ten leading vulnerability scanning solutions, detailing each tool's key features, deployment options, and how they help organizations detect and remediate security weaknesses across networks, servers, cloud and container environments.
This article outlines Alibaba Cloud EMR's three‑stage evolution—compatibility, contribution, and beyond open source—detailing its early Hadoop adoption, Flink and Spark innovations, cloud‑native optimizations, and enterprise‑grade features such as Remote Shuffle Service, performance benchmarks, and integrated diagnostics.
DolphinScheduler is an open‑source distributed task scheduling system that supports multiple task types, offers visual workflow orchestration and monitoring, and scales to thousands of servers, making it a robust solution for backend and big‑data processing scenarios.
The article explains how market trends, data‑driven enterprise needs, and internal platform experience led Didi to build Know Streaming—a zero‑intrusion, plugin‑based real‑time streaming solution built on Kafka—to address scalability, operability, and community adoption challenges.
Streamlit is a free, open‑source Python framework that lets machine‑learning engineers quickly turn scripts into interactive apps, offering features such as top‑down script execution, widget‑as‑variable handling, caching, GPU support, and seamless integration with version‑control tools, all without requiring separate frontend development.
This article traces the evolution of software from early free distribution to the rise of open source, explains why open source does not equal free, examines its commercial successes and licensing shifts, and explores the new challenges posed by the cloud era.
The Beijing "Microservices x Container Open Source Developer Meetup" gathered over 100 developers and core maintainers of leading cloud‑native projects to discuss next‑generation microservice architectures, static compilation, service governance, multi‑cluster management, observability, and more, providing deep technical insights and real‑world examples.
