China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warns that the domestic software sector lags internationally and outlines a comprehensive plan—ranging from talent cultivation and open‑source community building to big‑data expansion—to transform the industry by 2025.
This article chronicles Richard Stallman's uncompromising pursuit of software freedom, the rise of the GNU project, its clash with proprietary software and the open‑source movement, and how his ideals shaped the modern free‑software ecosystem despite commercial pressures.
The mica‑mqtt library, built on t‑io, offers a simple, low‑latency, high‑performance open‑source MQTT solution for IoT, supporting MQTT v3.1/v3.1.1/v5, WebSocket sub‑protocol, HTTP API, clustering via Redis, Spring Boot starter integration, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and provides extensive client and server interfaces with code examples.
This article introduces a pure‑frontend avatar generator built with Vite and Vue 3, showcases its rich customization options, demonstrates how to run the project locally, and highlights its usefulness for learning Vue 3 and creating unique vector avatars.
This guide introduces MangoDB, an open‑source MongoDB‑compatible database built on PostgreSQL, and walks you through a three‑step Docker‑Compose setup, service startup, and connection using mongosh, enabling developers to quickly try a true open‑source MongoDB replacement.
From powering supercomputers and Hollywood blockbusters to hidden Easter eggs in its source code, this article reveals ten little‑known, fascinating facts about Linux’s history, its mascot, contributors, and surprising cultural ties.
This roundup covers React 18's move to beta, the Electron 16.0.0 launch, TypeScript 4.5 new features with code examples, plus essential open‑source libraries like Zod, tsd, Vitedge, and deep dives into TypeScript functions, narrowing techniques, and Svelte's compilation model.
A curated collection of high‑quality open‑source Linux projects—including command‑line tools, security guides, tutorials, and web‑based shells—provides clear descriptions, key features, and direct GitHub links to help beginners and seasoned professionals quickly enhance their Linux expertise.
This article introduces the open‑source Java tower‑defense game Mindustry, explains its gameplay and resource‑management mechanics, provides step‑by‑step instructions for compiling and running it on Windows, Linux and macOS with JDK 16‑17, and highlights its value as a learning resource for Java game development.
This article introduces four open‑source server tools—Samba for Windows file sharing, Snapdrop for peer‑to‑peer file transfer, VLC for media streaming, and PulseAudio for network audio—explaining their purpose, basic setup steps, and where to find their source repositories.
Low-code development is gaining momentum, and this article compiles a curated list of 17 open-source low-code and no-code platforms—including Saltcorn, Joget DX, Digdag, Stackstorm, CUBA Platform, Skyve, and others—detailing their key features, licensing, and repository links for developers seeking rapid application building solutions.
From the quirky origin of the Linux name and the Tux mascot to hidden reboot() Easter eggs, Torvalds' reduced coding role, Steve Jobs' job offer, Apache’s boost, military adoption, Hollywood’s reliance, Microsoft’s contributions, and even a Swiss laundry‑detergent brand, this article reveals little‑known stories that highlight Linux’s far‑reaching impact.
This article introduces WebTorrent, an open‑source JavaScript library that brings BitTorrent‑style peer‑to‑peer file sharing and streaming directly to browsers using WebRTC, explains its advantages over traditional download tools, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for both web and Node environments.
Since the pandemic forced remote work, organizations must protect growing data across hybrid teams, and the article argues that open-source databases such as PostgreSQL offer stronger, more adaptable security than legacy closed-source systems by enabling rapid patching, community scrutiny, and cost-effective protection.
The article explains how open‑source software, driven by effective business models and community governance, has become the foundation of cloud‑native technologies like Kubernetes, illustrating why this model thrives and how companies such as Lingque Cloud contribute to its healthy evolution.
The pre‑release version 1.2110.0‑pre1 of the open‑source SQL audit tool SQLE is announced, detailing its project overview, repository links, new feature (Online DDL support), UI optimizations, and bug fixes, followed by promotional links and unrelated personal commentary.
The article explains how Douyin's Semi Design, an open‑source React UI design system, was found to contain undocumented Ant Design text, details the team's public apology, the architectural differences, license updates, and the specific components that were referenced.
Modern.js, launched at the 2023 ByteDance Developer Conference, aims to promote modern web development by providing a unified framework that supports various deployment modes and enhances developer efficiency.
The article examines how developers typically cope with errors, argues for richer error messages that aid troubleshooting, and showcases effective error‑handling designs through Rust’s compiler diagnostics and the Scoop installer’s automated issue system, while proposing four key principles and several practical patterns for presenting errors.
Reflecting on China’s Programmer’s Day, the author argues that moving from mere developers to true software engineers—by mastering engineering principles, design, project management, and open‑source culture—is essential for upgrading the nation’s 4 million‑strong software workforce and overcoming low‑quality, involutionary development.
This roundup highlights the latest Node.js v17 release with OpenSSL 3.0 support, the launch of VS Code’s browser version, a revamped React documentation site, and several noteworthy open‑source projects such as ts‑morpher, @swc/jest, and use‑context‑selector, plus an in‑depth look at Naive UI’s development process.
Alibaba’s Frontend Knowledge Graph, curated by dozens of experts over a year, maps 717 key topics across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, offering detailed explanations, resources, and an interactive visual tool for developers to explore and deepen their web development skills.
In his 2021 Open Source AceCon keynote, Chen Kai examines the evolution of open‑source and cloud‑native technologies, outlines three primary open‑source business models, analyzes the impact of public‑cloud providers, and proposes ways to sustain open‑source ecosystems through technical innovation, viable commercial strategies, and balanced governance.
This article introduces Calendso, an open‑source alternative to Calendly, and provides a detailed, step‑by‑step tutorial—including cloning the repository, installing dependencies, configuring environment variables, setting up the Prisma database, and running the application—to help developers deploy their own self‑hosted scheduling service.
This article introduces four powerful Java open‑source projects from the Dromara community—Sa‑Token for lightweight permission authentication, Forest as an elegant HTTP client, LiteFlow for component‑based workflow orchestration, and JPom for lightweight DevOps—detailing their core features, usage examples, and how they boost developer productivity.
The article explores recent shifts in the operating‑system landscape—including the CentOS 8 end‑of‑life, the rise of dual‑kernel Anolis OS, and the surge of eBPF—highlighting how cloud‑native demands are reshaping Linux development, security, and community governance.
In an interview, Tencent senior frontend engineers Wu Wenbin and Yang Chen explain the pain points of traditional development‑testing workflows, how their internal TDE platform built on the open‑source Whistle engine streamlines remote collaboration, improves security, and accelerates testing for both internal teams and external partners.
This article introduces ten powerful Alibaba open‑source projects—including Druid, fastjson, Dubbo, RocketMQ, Arthas, Nacos, EasyExcel, Sentinel, Otter, P3C, and Spring Cloud Alibaba—detailing their key features, advantages, usage scenarios, and Maven dependencies, providing developers with essential tools for building robust, cloud‑native Java applications.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Chinese graph database market, covering its origins, government policies, market size estimates, vendor rankings, funding activities, product features, challenges, and future prospects, while referencing numerous industry reports and case studies.
This article introduces Authelia, an open‑source authentication and authorization server that provides two‑factor authentication and single sign‑on, explains how it integrates with reverse proxies like Nginx, Traefik or HAProxy, outlines installation options, showcases its UI and key security features, and shares its GitHub statistics and link.
This article introduces Milkdown, an open‑source, component‑based Markdown editor that emphasizes simplicity and extensibility through plugins, outlines its core features, underlying technologies, usage examples, and provides guidance on creating custom plugins for personalized editing experiences.
This article explains what object storage services are, introduces MinIO as a compatible, high‑performance open‑source alternative to AWS S3, and provides step‑by‑step guidance for single‑node and distributed deployments using Docker on various operating systems.
From the 1980s rise of Unix, DOS, and MacOS to Andrew Tanenbaum’s teaching OS MINIX, Linus Torvalds built Linux, leading to a two‑decade legal battle with SCO over alleged Unix plagiarism, culminating in a settlement that finally closed the saga.
This article introduces the Internet of Things concept, highlights its massive market growth, and provides a detailed overview of DC3—an open‑source, Spring Cloud‑powered IoT platform—including its four‑layer architecture, core modules, and functional goals for scalable, fault‑tolerant, and cloud‑native deployments.
Alibaba Mama announced the open‑source release of its Curvature Space Learning Framework and a Federated Learning Solution, promising up to 80% storage savings, 15% matching‑precision gains, enhanced privacy through federated computation, and broader applicability across search advertising, logistics, finance and healthcare.
Tencent Cloud has open‑sourced Polaris Mesh, a cloud‑native service discovery and governance platform that registers over one million services, manages billions of instances, and processes trillions of daily API calls, offering unified registration, traffic routing, circuit breaking, access control, and mesh capabilities via SDK and sidecar modes, with an expanding roadmap and community invitation.
This article presents a curated list of the eleven most popular Java open‑source projects on GitHub in August, including brief descriptions, star counts, and links, covering frameworks, messaging systems, data processing engines, and development tools for Java developers.
This article introduces the open‑source CIM instant‑messaging system, explains its Netty/WebSocket‑based backend architecture, outlines the available client SDKs and server modules, and showcases functional previews for console, Android, and web clients, guiding developers on how to adopt or adapt the solution.
CutefishOS, a Chinese‑led Linux distribution built on Ubuntu, offers a modern, macOS‑inspired desktop environment using KDE frameworks, Qt, and Plasma, with multilingual support, open‑source code, and a suite of pre‑installed applications for everyday use.
A Chinese tech blogger retrieved the Android kernel source from UMIDIGI after a GPLv2 violation controversy, documented the process in a YouTube video, and made the code publicly available for developers to review.
Knife4j is a lightweight, feature‑rich solution that enhances Swagger UI for Java MVC frameworks, offering customizable configurations, offline document export, and seamless integration with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud micro‑service architectures, while providing open‑source repositories and clear usage instructions.
This article introduces six popular open‑source Spring Cloud microservice projects, detailing their core features, technology stacks, and providing repository links and screenshots to help developers quickly study and adopt enterprise‑grade microservice architectures.
Fair 2.0 is an open‑source Flutter dynamic framework that enhances logic dynamicization, offering a compiler to transform Dart files into DSL and JS, with detailed architecture, comparisons to MXFlutter and Kraken, and a series of upcoming technical articles.
This roundup covers the SWR 1.0 release with major size reductions and new features, a reported Microsoft Edge ad problem, several fresh open‑source projects such as play.js and eslint‑nibble, and deep‑dive articles on TypeScript’s infer keyword and the advanced pnpm package manager.
Linus Torvalds reflects on Linux’s 30‑year journey, explaining why the OS has four “birthdays” — the first public news‑group post, the 0.01 release, the 0.02 announcement, and the later milestones — while sharing insights on early development, licensing, and the rise of open‑source collaboration.
Ventoy, an open‑source bootable USB tool, lets you copy multiple ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x) or EFI files to a single flash drive without reformatting, supporting a wide range of Linux distributions and firmware modes, making system installation faster and more flexible.
This article introduces a collection of Alibaba‑released open‑source tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, PTS, Druid, and more—detailing their usage scenarios, tutorials, and acquisition methods to help backend developers improve efficiency, debugging, monitoring, and reliability of their services.
A Chinese phone maker UMIDIGI faced public pressure after influencer Naomi Wu and a Polish developer demanded the GPL‑v2‑licensed kernel source of the Android 10‑based UMIDIGI F2, highlighting the obligations and controversies surrounding open‑source compliance.
This article surveys eleven essential open‑source tools for Kubernetes, grouping them into three categories—running clusters, accelerating feedback loops, and enriching IDE experiences—while explaining each tool’s purpose, key features, and practical usage tips for developers and operators.
This article introduces the open‑source WeChat mini‑program mall (Java version), detailing its technical stack, development plan, project structure, core features such as member and order management, SMS service integration, and step‑by‑step installation and deployment instructions for both backend and frontend components.
This roundup highlights the Next.js 11.1 and Vue 3.2 releases with their new features and performance boosts, introduces several emerging open‑source projects such as quickjs‑rs, MDX, mdast, Puerts, wasm‑pack, instant.page and txiki.js, and summarizes practical articles on one‑click dark‑mode support and dramatically shrinking Next.js bundle size.
Gorse is an open‑source, Go‑based recommendation system that automates model selection, supports distributed training and real‑time serving via RESTful APIs, stores data in MySQL or MongoDB with Redis caching, and offers a dashboard for monitoring, data import/export, and cluster health.
This article compiles twelve popular open‑source admin dashboard projects for Vue, presenting their source‑code repositories, documentation links, live demo URLs, and licensing details to help developers quickly evaluate and adopt suitable backend management interfaces.
This interview explores the six‑year evolution of the dubbogo project, the motivations, challenges, and biggest contributions of PMC member Wongoo, and his vision for the future of this high‑quality Go implementation of the Dubbo RPC framework.
This article presents a curated list of the 15 best code review tools, describing each platform’s features and benefits to help developers streamline code inspections, improve software quality, and enhance team collaboration.
The 2021 State of Data Science report shows how COVID‑19 has impacted investment, highlights Python's dominance, examines automation's growing role, and reveals corporate attitudes toward open‑source contributions, offering data‑driven insights for professionals and educators alike.
The 2021 State of Data Science report by Anaconda analyzes how COVID‑19 influences investment, highlights that 63% of respondents frequently use Python, shows automation is viewed as a complementary tool, and reveals mixed corporate attitudes toward open‑source contributions.
The article examines how cloud‑native 2.0 has reshaped the container landscape, discusses whether the ecosystem is becoming overly competitive, and highlights KubeSphere’s open‑source challenges, recent FaaS integration, hybrid‑cloud architecture, and future directions for developers and enterprises.
This roundup covers Yarn 3.0’s breaking changes and new features, VS Code’s built‑in DevTools debugging, a React recreation of Windows 11, a type‑safe Clipanion CLI library, a Node.js CLI best‑practice guide, Sandpack, Infima, Benny benchmark tool, plus articles on Next.js pre‑rendering, micro‑frontend routing hijack, and React Native’s architecture upgrade.
This guide walks through a systematic approach to creating, designing, architecting, and operating technical products for developers, covering product design, architecture diagrams, project organization, Git workflows, documentation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration mechanisms, and post‑release maintenance to help teams deliver successful developer‑focused tools.
This article introduces wx‑manage, an open‑source WeChat public‑account management system that supports multiple accounts, offering menu, auto‑reply, material management, and a simple CMS, and details its Spring Boot‑based tech stack, required environment, and where to obtain the source code.
This article introduces a curated list of popular open‑source projects for SRE and DevOps, covering monitoring, deployment, chaos engineering, and reliability tools such as Cloudprober, Istio, Checkov, Litmus, Locust, Prometheus, and more, highlighting their key features and practical use cases.
This article shares a personal experience with the Deepin Linux distribution, covering its graphical interface, file manager, development environment, communication apps, Android app support, and the many practical advantages that make Linux a viable alternative to Windows for everyday use.
XGBoost Serving is an open‑source, high‑performance inference system built on TensorFlow Serving that adds dedicated servables for pure GBDT, GBDT+FM binary‑classification, and GBDT+FM multi‑classification models, providing automatic version lifecycle management, GRPC/HTTP APIs, and up to 50 % latency reduction, now available on GitHub after successful deployment in iQIYI’s recommendation platform.
Low‑code and no‑code platforms are gaining momentum, and this article curates 18 open‑source solutions, detailing their key features, licensing, supported languages, deployment options, and providing official repository or website links for developers and enterprises seeking rapid application development.
This article examines the architectures, core features, and performance of several open‑source API gateways—including Nginx, Kong, APISIX, Tyk, Zuul, and Gravitee—by deploying sample services with Docker Compose, testing routing, load‑balancing, authentication, and other capabilities, and presenting benchmark results.
Keycloak, Red Hat’s open‑source identity and access management platform, offers a comprehensive SSO solution with extensive protocols, admin UI, Spring Security integration, and customizable features, but its complexity and steep learning curve may pose challenges for smaller projects.
In his talk, Horike, CEO of Serverless Operations, explains how open‑source projects such as a Step Functions workflow library, an API Gateway service‑proxy plugin, and the Jeffy Lambda framework are driving the future of serverless by lowering costs, simplifying development, and empowering engineers through community collaboration.
Xianyu pioneered Flutter adoption in 2017, overcoming internal resistance and architectural gaps by creating the AliFlutter community and a hybrid Flutter Boost stack, successfully migrating its main app, learning from early open‑source missteps to improve documentation and APIs, and now commits to three more years of Flutter development while preparing for future cross‑platform ecosystems.
The article recounts how Richard Hipp created SQLite—a tiny, fully embedded 900 KB database written in a single C file—that now powers billions of devices, and how his later Althttpd web server handles hundreds of thousands of requests daily, illustrating his prolific open‑source legacy.
Zhang Liang shares Didi's four-stage journey of constructing and governing large‑scale open‑source big‑data engine services—including engine selection, hardware sizing, PaaS platform building, proxy architecture, and governance—highlighting practical challenges, solutions, and ROI‑driven best practices for Kafka, Elasticsearch, Flink, and related technologies.
This week’s WecTeam Front‑end Weekly highlights a concise explanation of how compilers and interpreters transform source code into intermediate representations before execution, and shares a personal story on how open‑source contributions foster efficient work habits, product thinking, and lifelong passion.
CNCF’s Application Delivery SIG, now co‑chaired by Alibaba Cloud’s Deng Hongchao and VMware’s Jennifer Strejevitch, aims to advance cloud‑native app management by uniting best‑practice guidance, open‑source project stewardship, and emerging trends such as sidecars, universal control planes, GitOps, and standardized application models.
This article explains how Streamlit, a free open‑source Python framework, simplifies the creation of interactive machine‑learning applications by letting developers write pure Python scripts that automatically rerun on each interaction, cache results, and integrate seamlessly with existing tools and workflows.
This article presents a curated list of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects spanning distributed services, frontend frameworks, database tools, monitoring solutions, and cloud‑native platforms, each with a brief description and a link to its GitHub repository, helping developers choose the right tools for their needs.
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.
