The author recounts how, after his company closed, he built a lightweight Spring Boot‑Vue blog project, iterated it into a more complex human‑resource management system, documented each feature, released it on GitHub, and eventually saw it climb the GitHub Trending list, sharing lessons learned and advice for newcomers.
The article explains how solid‑state drives are overtaking traditional disks, why storage software now dominates latency, and how the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) uses user‑space drivers and polled‑mode I/O to achieve millions of IOPS with minimal CPU overhead.
This article chronicles the origins and growth of Oracle, the colorful personality of its founder Larry Ellison, the early development of relational databases, the fierce competition among IBM, Sybase, Borland and other vendors, and the later impact of open‑source and cloud‑computing trends on the database market.
An open‑source maintainer shares candid reflections on the psychological pressure, overwhelming community feedback, role shifts, time constraints, fear of losing technical leadership, friction with contributors, and the sense of futility that accompany the stewardship of a widely used project like Redis.
From his early fascination with a VIC‑20 gifted by his grandfather to creating the Linux kernel and later inventing Git, Linus Torvalds’ relentless coding passion, clashes with industry giants, and steadfast commitment to free software shaped the open‑source world and his own remarkable life story.
Didi’s platform handles over 700 billion daily ETA requests using AI‑driven real‑time calculations, while its 6,000‑plus engineers rely on open‑source big‑data, cloud and AI frameworks, contribute 23 projects that have earned more than 36,000 stars, and provide anonymized traffic data to academia for transportation and urban‑planning research.
The article reviews the rapid development of cloud‑native technologies in China, explains how the runV project merged into Kata containers, discusses the security advantages of Kata, and shares the founder’s perspective on open‑source entrepreneurship, cloud‑native adoption in finance, and future trends in container ecosystems.
At the CNCF Cloud Native Conference in Shanghai, Tencent Open Source Alliance chair Du Junping unveiled a three‑stage roadmap—internal collaboration, external code release, and community governance—while highlighting the company's focus areas, internal office structure, major open‑source contributions, and impressive project metrics such as 75 open‑source projects and over 220,000 GitHub stars.
This article examines Xianyu's adoption of Flutter, detailing its benefits for small and Android‑focused teams, the technical hurdles of integrating Flutter into existing apps, memory‑optimized engine sharing, video rendering improvements, the evolution of the Fish Redux framework, and the automation pipeline that drives efficient, data‑backed development.
The article outlines Didi’s rapid growth in open‑source contributions—20 projects, nearly 40 000 stars, 130+ contributors across AI, middleware, monitoring, mobile and front‑end—detailing its internal governance, external patches to major OSS projects, community partnerships, and future open‑source commitments.
Edge computing moves processing, storage, and networking nearer to users and devices, boosting real-time efficiency, security, and bandwidth savings while complementing cloud services, and open-source platforms like StarlingX and KubeEdge provide standardized, high-availability solutions for diverse smart-city, automotive, and AI edge applications.
The article introduces Apache Dubbo, a high‑performance lightweight Java RPC framework, outlines its core capabilities, development history, technical ecosystem, 2019 plans, shares micro‑service implementation experiences, and provides speaker and community information for the DataFun big‑data forum.
This article presents a curated list of the most popular Java open‑source projects on GitHub for May, highlighting each repository's purpose, star count, and key features ranging from algorithm visualizations and interview prep notes to full‑stack e‑commerce platforms and core Spring frameworks.
This roundup covers Gartner’s eight predicted cloud‑native infrastructure trends, a five‑year reflection on Kubernetes, recent upstream Kubernetes changes, and highlights two open‑source tools—ksniff for pod traffic capture and Flagger for service‑mesh‑based canary releases—providing developers with actionable insights into the evolving cloud‑native ecosystem.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of OpenStack, covering its history from early Amazon web services to its open‑source launch, the governance of the OpenStack Foundation, the evolution of its releases, core components, widespread adoption, and practical guidance for learning the platform.
Vant 2.0 launches with four new components, revamped documentation, enhanced theming and a slimmer bundle, while boasting 220 releases, a 98% issue‑resolution rate and plans for VantWeapp 1.0 and a Vue 3‑based Vant 3.0, reflecting the project’s marathon‑like, fast‑iteration development.
The article recounts the author’s path from a novice Java developer at Alibaba to becoming an Apache Tomcat committer, PMC member, and Apache Foundation member, detailing early challenges, contributions to Tomcat and Dubbo, participation in Apache Roadshows, and insights on open‑source collaboration and community governance.
The article examines AWS's Open Distro for Elasticsearch, critiques its impact on open‑source licensing, discusses aggressive cloud‑provider practices, and explores how the SSPL controversy highlights the need for new standards to protect open‑source innovation.
This article presents a curated roundup of the most starred GitHub repositories in May, covering terminals, Python learning resources, algorithm collections, command‑line guides, Java tutorials, and a machine‑learning course, each with brief descriptions and star counts.
The author recounts his path from joining Alibaba's middleware team in 2014 to becoming an Apache Tomcat committer, PMC member, and Apache Foundation member, while also guiding Dubbo's migration to Apache and sharing practical lessons on open‑source contribution and large‑scale backend systems.
This article traces the origins of Unix from the 1960s AT&T Bell Labs project, explains how Linux emerged from the GNU initiative and Linus Torvalds' kernel, and compares their philosophies, licensing, ecosystem, and current relevance across servers, cloud, embedded devices, and modern development.
This article traces the history of Unix, explains how Linux emerged from the GNU project and the Linux kernel, compares their philosophies, licensing, and technical features, and highlights why Linux now dominates servers, cloud, and embedded devices while Unix still persists in niche markets.
This article introduces SG, a lightweight PHP syntax‑sugar extension that simplifies access to superglobal variables, outlines its features, configuration, usage examples, performance testing, and provides the GitHub project link for developers seeking more efficient and readable backend code.
Wave Computing announced the open‑source release of the MIPS ISA and its R6 core in early 2019, positioning MIPS as a commercial‑ready alternative to RISC‑V while addressing ecosystem challenges, patent issues, and market dynamics in China and beyond.
Edge computing is emerging as a crucial IoT trend because it reduces data transmission and storage costs, enables sub‑second response times for safety‑critical operations, enhances security and privacy, and is supported by a growing ecosystem of cloud providers, vendors, and open‑source projects.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, began programming at age 11, built the OS inspired by Minix and Unix, leveraged community support, and exemplifies traits such as intense focus, modesty, and dedication, offering valuable lessons for developers and highlighting the historical evolution of open‑source operating systems.
The article examines Google's suspension of Huawei support, explains why Android uses the Apache License instead of GPL, outlines common open‑source licenses, discusses licensing implications for Node.js and mobile ecosystems, and highlights recent licensing controversies affecting developers.
The article examines recent U.S. export control measures targeting Huawei, their ripple effects on global chip and software suppliers, and the newly updated GitHub user agreement that subjects hosted code to U.S. export regulations, raising concerns about the safety and accessibility of open‑source projects for developers worldwide.
A curated list of 13 high‑quality Spring Boot open‑source projects—including e‑commerce platforms, microservice frameworks, payment systems, and ERP solutions—each with brief descriptions, key features, and demo links to help Java developers find valuable codebases for learning and real‑world use.
This article introduces a curated selection of Alibaba’s open‑source and cloud‑based developer tools—including Arthas, Cloud Toolkit, ChaosBlade, ARMS, Docsite, Freeline, EasyExcel, Druid, Dragonwell and more—detailing their use cases, tutorials, and acquisition methods to help developers improve efficiency and code quality.
Discover the eleven most popular GitHub repositories of April, ranging from the 996.ICU protest project and university course collections to algorithm libraries, design tools, and essential Java and Python guides, each highlighted with stars, links, and brief descriptions.
This article introduces the concepts of block, file, and object storage and reviews several open‑source distributed object storage solutions—including Swift, Ceph, MinIO, HBase MOB, and Hadoop Ozone—highlighting their architectures, features, and typical use cases for large‑scale data handling.
This article introduces Linux‑command, a comprehensive, searchable reference covering over 540 Linux commands with syntax, options, and examples, helping developers quickly recall and master command‑line tools while highlighting its popularity, features, and visual interface.
SQLFlow, an open‑source project from Ant Financial, bridges SQL engines and AI frameworks so that users can train and predict machine‑learning models with simple SQL statements, dramatically lowering the technical barrier for analysts and engineers across diverse data platforms.
SQLFlow is an open‑source project that connects diverse SQL engines (MySQL, Hive, SparkSQL, etc.) with AI frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost, etc.) through extended SQL syntax, enabling analysts to train and predict models using only a few SQL statements while aiming for high scalability and performance.
After 18 months of negotiations, Oracle refused to sign a trademark transfer agreement with the Eclipse Foundation, jeopardizing the vendor‑neutral status of Eclipse IDE and Jakarta EE and potentially ending Java EE as a viable platform for developers.
This article presents a curated list of fourteen of the most renowned programmers worldwide, detailing their reputation, major achievements, and community quotes, offering readers insight into the individuals who have shaped modern software development and computer science.
This article presents a curated list of fifteen Alibaba open‑source and cloud‑based developer tools—including Java diagnostics, IDE plugins, chaos engineering, monitoring, static site generators, mobile compilation, and database utilities—detailing their usage scenarios, tutorials, and acquisition methods to boost development efficiency.
In a candid 25‑year follow‑up interview, Linus Torvalds and Robert Young discuss Linux’s evolution, development philosophy, future outlook, hardware choices, open‑source culture, and advice for young developers, while also tracing Young’s entrepreneurial journey from early ventures to his current projects.
This roundup covers GoDaddy's open‑source Kubernetes External Secrets project, free CNCF cloud‑native courses for Chinese developers, major Kubernetes performance and security enhancements, Knative and Istio updates, containerd improvements, a shift from rich‑container ops to cloud‑native practices, and recommended open‑source and reading resources.
After a quarter‑century since his first interview, Linus Torvalds and Robert Young discuss Linux’s evolution, development philosophy, hardware choices, the future of the kernel, open‑source culture, and advice for young programmers, offering candid insights into the project's past, present, and outlook.
Tencent Cloud researcher Du Junping’s elevation to Apache Software Foundation Member highlights his decade‑long progression from Hadoop contributor to voting board member, while illustrating Apache’s transparent governance hierarchy and Tencent’s Open‑Source Alliance efforts to streamline reviews, mentor projects, and rigorously assess open‑source health.
The article introduces Ctrip’s internally used React Native framework CRN, explains its background, performance‑focused architectural simplifications, open‑source contents such as CLI and Runtime, applicable scenarios for pure and hybrid apps, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for integrating CRN into existing or new mobile projects.
The article explains how Google’s refusal to grant DRM licensing to the open‑source Electron‑based Metastream browser highlights the challenges faced by small browsers in obtaining Widevine support, forcing developers to consider abandoning desktop versions or becoming limited extensions.
The DTLE 2.19.03.0 release introduces cross‑data‑center transfer, cloud synchronization, data aggregation, DDL filtering, schema name conversion, and numerous bug fixes, providing a reliable MySQL‑focused middleware for diverse data replication and migration scenarios.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of operating systems, covering their definition, core components, historical evolution, classifications, key functions, the GNU/Linux ecosystem, licensing models, versioning schemes, major distributions, package managers, and the role of Linux in modern computing environments.
The article explains the renaming of the open‑source distributed transaction framework Fescar to Seata, outlines the background and evolution of distributed transactions at Alibaba and Ant Financial, and shares recent community milestones and future plans for the project.
After years of legal battles over VMware's use of GPL‑licensed Linux code in its ESXi hypervisor, developer Christopher Helwig has abandoned his appeal, citing the court's high evidentiary demands and VMware's recent pledge to stop using Linux code.
This article presents a curated collection of prominent Java open‑source projects—including learning guides, development tools, e‑commerce platforms, big‑data frameworks, distributed transaction solutions, and security resources—each accompanied by brief descriptions and GitHub links for developers seeking valuable Java ecosystem resources.
Matrix for iOS/macOS is an open‑source performance probing tool from the WeChat team that monitors crashes, jank, and memory issues on iOS and macOS, offering plugins for detailed stack capture and out‑of‑memory reporting, with future plans for power‑consumption tracking and cloud integration.
An in‑depth data analysis of the 996.ICU GitHub repository shows where the protesting programmers work, which cities they live in, their typical GitHub activity, the most discussed issues, and the common keywords in their bios, highlighting the scale of the anti‑996 movement.
ChaosBlade is an open‑source chaos engineering tool from Alibaba that lets you repeatedly inject failures into distributed systems, helping you measure fault tolerance, validate orchestration, test platform robustness, verify monitoring alerts, and improve emergency response capabilities for more reliable cloud‑native applications.
This article presents Mybridge's curated list of ten highly starred Python open‑source projects, ranging from web‑scraping tools and testing frameworks to code formatters and data‑analysis utilities, each with a brief description and direct GitHub link.
Mica is a Java‑8 based microservice framework that evolved from lutool, offering servlet and reactive WebFlux support, auto‑configuration via Spring Boot and Spring Cloud without third‑party dependencies, modular components, LGPL‑v3 licensing, and detailed update notes for developers.
This article compiles a curated list of the ten most popular free open‑source admin dashboard UI frameworks, detailing their GitHub star counts, repository links, core technologies, and visual screenshots to help developers quickly choose a suitable backend control panel solution.
Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki in 1969, created the Linux kernel in 1991 after experimenting with MINIX and writing his own disk driver, championing free software principles that now power billions of devices—from servers to Android phones—while his controversial personality sparked intense community debates.
The article examines whether Oracle will be completely supplanted by MySQL, comparing industry adoption, DBA role differences, performance versus scalability, cost considerations, and cultural factors that influence database choices in traditional and internet sectors.
The announcement showcases a 30‑day community sharing event for the open‑source DBLE middleware, highlighting three member submissions that cover a cross‑shard query case study, detailed rule.xml and server.xml configuration guides, and a tutorial on creating custom sharding algorithms, along with reward details.
This article recounts the author’s year‑long experience transforming Sharding‑JDBC into the ShardingSphere ecosystem, detailing technical challenges, community building, Apache Incubator admission, and the project’s evolution into a financial‑grade distributed database solution.
An extensive curated list of 26 Alibaba open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Druid, fastjson, Dubbo, JStorm, Nacos, Sentinel, and many others—covers essential tools for backend development, data processing, cloud‑native services, monitoring, and more, each with brief descriptions and GitHub links.
This article presents a curated list of the most popular Java open‑source projects on GitHub for January, summarizing each repository’s purpose, key features, and star count to help developers discover valuable resources for learning, building, and advancing Java applications.
The article chronicles Ant Financial’s strategic decision to open‑source the core components of its SOFA middleware—distributed transaction framework and service registry—detailing the technical evolution from early internal frameworks to modern service‑mesh‑enabled cloud‑native architecture and highlighting the business motivations, community impact, and future roadmap.
In 2018 Didi expanded its open‑source portfolio to 12 projects, amassed over 16,000 stars and 2,000 forks, contributed more than 300 pull requests, engaged 65 contributors, and delivered dozens of patches to major projects such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and Linux, while deepening community partnerships and outlining ambitious open‑source goals for 2019.
This article presents a curated collection of Alibaba’s open‑source Java projects, ranging from distributed service frameworks like Spring Cloud Alibaba and Dubbo, database tools such as Druid and TDDL, to monitoring, messaging, and cloud‑native components, each with brief descriptions and GitHub links.
The 2019 MySQL Technical Exchange Conference in Shenzhen, co‑hosted by Shanghai Aikesheng and Oracle, featured six expert talks covering secure MySQL platform design, large‑scale architecture optimization, backup and recovery strategies, open‑source middleware, automated operations, and InnoDB row‑lock mechanics, followed by community Q&A and a look ahead to open‑source initiatives.
Apache Dubbo’s latest 2.7.0 release introduces full async programming, separates registry, config, and metadata centers, adds native support for ZooKeeper, Nacos and Apollo, expands multi‑language clients, and outlines the roadmap toward Dubbo 3.0 and graduation from the Apache incubator, reflecting a thriving community revival.
Alibaba Cloud’s president explains why cloud should be a CEO’s top concern, shares IDC market‑share data confirming its dominance in China, introduces the open‑source distributed‑transaction solution Fescar, and highlights several Alibaba‑driven open‑source projects shaping the cloud ecosystem.
This article lists and briefly describes the eleven most popular Java‑related GitHub repositories in December, covering learning guides, e‑commerce platforms, advanced Java topics, performance monitoring, high‑concurrency demos, diagnostic tools, Spring Boot, tutorials, messaging middleware, community software, and the Dubbo RPC framework.
Google's 2018 AI review highlights major advances across ethical AI principles, social‑impact projects, assistive technologies, quantum computing, natural‑language models like BERT, perception research, algorithms, TPU hardware, open‑source releases, robotics, healthcare applications, and plans for an even broader impact in 2019.
Didi Mobility has open‑sourced DDMQ, an enterprise‑grade distributed message queue that delivers millisecond‑level latency and millions of messages per second, supports real‑time, delayed and transactional messages via RocketMQ/Kafka and RocksDB, offers multi‑language SDKs, flexible consumption, server‑side filtering, a unified console, and achieves five‑nine availability across Didi’s ride‑hailing, finance and delivery platforms.
MongoDB changed its open‑source license to the SSPL to curb cloud providers, prompting AWS to launch its own compatible DocumentDB fork, while industry leaders debate the move’s impact on open‑source freedom, developer choice, and MongoDB’s market performance.
This tribute honors the late Linux kernel developer Li Shaohua, highlighting his pivotal contributions to MD RAID, block I/O, NVMe, and storage performance, while sharing personal anecdotes and technical lessons that continue to inspire kernel engineers worldwide.
This week’s Alibaba tech roundup highlights the DAMO Academy’s 2019 top‑10 technology trends—from smart cities and AI chips to blockchain and 5G—plus breakthrough AI liver‑tumor segmentation results, the open‑source Fusion design system, a Flink Forward China recap, a new computer‑vision paper collection, and an upcoming Apache Dubbo live session.
The 2018 Flink Forward China conference in Beijing showcased Apache Flink’s evolution, Alibaba’s massive contributions—including the Blink fork, real‑time BI, online learning and city‑level analytics—and highlighted how industry leaders like Alibaba, Didi and others leverage Flink for scalable, low‑latency big‑data processing across diverse use cases.
The article presents DTLE, an open‑source MySQL data‑transfer middleware that extends replication capabilities with high‑performance CDC, multi‑topology support, cloud‑to‑cloud synchronization, and robust cluster management, while comparing it with other open‑source solutions and showcasing real‑world demos.
Quicksql is an open‑source unified SQL query engine that simplifies and secures cross‑data‑source queries by providing a consistent ANSI‑based language, automatic engine selection, and support for mixed queries across Hive, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and other platforms, reducing learning and integration costs.
Wave Computing announced that the MIPS instruction set architecture and its latest R6 core will be released as open source in early 2019, sparking industry debate about the move’s impact on MIPS’s market position, licensing revenue, and competition with RISC‑V, especially in the AI and Chinese markets.
Matrix is Tencent’s open‑source Android APM that unifies performance monitoring, offering tools like APK Checker, SQLite Lint, Trace Canary, Resource Canary, and IO Canary to detect issues such as leaks, slow methods, and I/O problems, helping developers build higher‑quality apps.
This newsletter introduces Alibaba’s X‑DeepLearning deep‑learning framework, releases a large‑scale cluster dataset for research, announces the upcoming open‑source of the Blink streaming engine, showcases the futuristic FlyZoo Hotel, and shares a welcome letter to new hires, highlighting cutting‑edge technologies across AI, big data, and cloud operations.
Navi is an open‑source component‑routing framework that separates routing logic from business code using matcher annotations, allowing developers to define reusable handlers for different client types and versions, thereby reducing code complexity, improving extensibility, and simplifying backend services while supporting future extensions and community contributions.
The article argues that, despite common advocacy for open‑source, closed‑source solutions can sometimes be preferable because they relieve users from bug‑fixing, licensing complexities, overwhelming choices, and the need to hunt for documentation or support, relying instead on vendor assistance.
This article chronicles Dubbo’s journey from its 2018 Apache incubation vote through its key features, release history, and upcoming 2.7 version that aims to graduate the high‑performance Java RPC framework to an Apache top‑level project.
This article traces the evolution of Alibaba’s internal microservice configuration center—from a group‑wide tool to a commercial cloud product and finally an open‑source project—detailing design decisions such as centralized control, dynamic push, namespace isolation, release governance, capacity limits, and console UX improvements.
This article compiles over sixty top open‑source tools spanning version control, build automation, continuous integration, deployment, configuration management, container platforms, monitoring and logging, providing a comprehensive resource for building efficient DevOps pipelines.
This article compiles over fifty open‑source and free Kubernetes tools, organized into categories such as cluster deployment, monitoring, testing, security, CLI utilities, development aids, CI/CD pipelines, serverless frameworks, service discovery, and native visualization, providing concise descriptions, repository links, and cost information for each.
This article traces OpenStack’s rise, decline, and recent resurgence, describing how the foundation refocused on core services, launched pilot projects in CI/CD, containers, edge computing, and AI, and positioned the platform as a mature, widely‑adopted private‑cloud solution.
The article explains the formation of the Ceph Foundation, outlines Ceph’s widespread adoption, and provides a detailed, step‑by‑step analysis of the Scrub and Deep‑Scrub processes, highlighting their operation, limitations, and ongoing efforts to improve automatic repair.
In this interview, Kubernetes contributor Lei (Harry) Zhang explains the CRI Shimv2 interface, its benefits for developers and end‑users, reflects on the 2018 container ecosystem evolution, shares highlights from KubeCon Shanghai, and discusses balancing open‑source engineering with technical evangelism.
This guide lists and briefly describes 18 open‑source and cloud‑based machine learning platforms—from H2O and TensorFlow to Azure ML and AWS services—highlighting their key features, supported languages, and typical use cases for developers at any skill level.
The article surveys ten leading open-source AI tools and frameworks—including TensorFlow, SystemML, Caffe, Apache Mahout, OpenNN, Torch, Neuroph, Deeplearning4j, Mycroft, and OpenCog—detailing their primary features, supported languages, hardware compatibility, and typical use cases for research and development.
The article announces the open-source release of the Windows Agent component under the Apache license, its integration into the Open-Falcon community, future feature enhancements, and gratitude to contributors, while providing links to the source code and related documentation.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Platform as a Service (PaaS), covering its definition, service model distinctions, historical milestones, major vendors, technical characteristics, container foundations, and the most prominent open‑source and commercial PaaS platforms.
This article chronicles the eight‑month development of ShardingSphere 3.0.0, detailing its origins from Sharding‑JDBC, the addition of Sharding‑Proxy and Sidecar, core feature enhancements, distributed transaction redesign, community growth, and future roadmap for the open‑source database middleware ecosystem.
This article chronicles Red Hat’s journey from its Unix roots in the 1960s through key milestones like the GNU project, Linux adoption, major product launches, strategic acquisitions, and its eventual $34 billion acquisition by IBM, highlighting its impact on open‑source and cloud computing.
This essay explores how differing philosophies between closed‑source and open‑source software drive distinct business models, legal risks, and innovation pathways, highlighting open source's growing influence across AI, blockchain, DevOps, licensing, and cloud computing.
The 2018 China Open‑Source Annual Report analyzes GitHub data, introduces the Grank health index, highlights dominant companies and trending technologies such as AI, cloud, and blockchain, and reveals how activity and community decentralisation shape the vitality of Chinese open‑source projects.
The article traces the origins of the Zend Engine, its role as PHP’s core, the corporate shifts after its acquisition by Rogue Wave, and the recent departure of its key developers, highlighting community concerns and hopes for future contributions to PHP 8.
GitHub’s 2018 Octoverse report uncovers global developer habits, highlighting the most chatty nations, favorite emojis, peak activity hours, top programming languages, fastest‑growing topics like AI, and major platform updates such as GitHub Actions and Connect, offering a comprehensive snapshot of the open‑source ecosystem.
This article explains the rapid rise of open‑source technologies, outlines common questions and risks associated with open‑source license usage, summarizes a guide covering eleven major licenses, and announces the OSCAR Open Source Pioneer Day where experts will discuss compliance and best practices.
The article chronicles Elastic’s journey from a small open‑source search tool to a NYSE‑listed company, explaining Elasticsearch’s technical foundations, its real‑world applications, and what the IPO means for developers and the broader search‑technology ecosystem.
