The OSCON 2017 conference in Austin featured Huawei’s extensive open‑source showcase, including talks on ecosystem growth, serverless micro‑service orchestration, unified storage with OpenSDS, network simplification via iCAN, and Go‑based DevOps orchestration, plus demos of OpenStack and developer ecosystem solutions.
Docker renamed its original open‑source project to Moby, shifting the Docker brand to its commercial CE and EE products, which sparked community backlash over perceived rebranding, loss of the Docker open‑source identity, and raised questions about open‑source monetization and corporate strategy.
The article analyzes Docker’s controversial rename of its core project to Moby, the community backlash it sparked, the strategic motives behind the move, and how related initiatives like LinuxKit fit into the evolving cloud‑native container ecosystem.
Zabbix is an open‑source, web‑based enterprise monitoring platform that tracks Windows/Linux hosts, network devices, and hardware/software metrics, provides alerting, visualizes data via a customizable PHP web UI, and comprises components such as server, agents, proxies, Java gateway, and API, with flexible templates, discovery, and storage options.
Xplico is an open‑source network forensics platform that reconstructs application‑level data from captured traffic, supporting numerous protocols, offering modular decoding, multithreaded processing, and flexible output to databases or files, making it valuable for security analysis and incident response.
An in‑depth look at Docker’s transformation into the Moby project reveals how the company repackaged its flagship container platform, the community’s backlash over the split, the strategic motives behind the move, and what it means for the future of container‑based cloud native development.
Intel announced it will cease providing its proprietary Lustre file‑system version, contribute all features to the open‑source community, designate the community build as the long‑term‑stable release, and release related Hadoop and HPC adapters, signaling a strategic shift in its high‑performance‑computing operations.
This article introduces seven high-quality open‑source bug tracking tools—Bugzilla, Redmine, Trac, Mantis, Fossil, Phabricator, and WebIssues—detailing their origins, main features, and why they can boost project development and issue management for software teams.
This article provides a concise overview of popular Linux distributions—including Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Deepin, Fedora, Debian, Arch, and many specialized editions—highlighting their desktop environments, target users, and key features to help readers choose the right OS for their needs.
SQLAdvisor, an open-source MySQL optimization utility from Meituan-Dianping, analyzes a given SQL statement—parsing its lexical structure, WHERE clauses, field selectivity, aggregations and multi-table joins—to automatically recommend missing indexes, supporting INSERT/DELETE/UPDATE/SELECT operations, filtering existing indexes, and inviting community contributions on GitHub.
StarCraft, a classic real‑time strategy game, has become a key testbed for deep reinforcement learning and AI research, and Alibaba's open‑source Gym StarCraft platform now offers Python‑based, TensorFlow‑compatible tools that simplify agent development and evaluation within the OpenAI Gym ecosystem.
This article introduces several popular open‑source licenses—including Apache 2.0, GPL v3, MIT, BSD, Eclipse, and others—detailing their commercial use rights, required notices, modification obligations, patent provisions, and liability limitations to help developers choose an appropriate license.
In this interview, Linus Torvalds shares hard‑earned lessons on software project management, emphasizing personal responsibility, the primacy of users over code quality, the limited role of tools, and how the Linux kernel mailing list keeps contributors aligned, offering timeless advice for developers and teams.
This article introduces Linux to newcomers, covering its definition as an open‑source operating system, the history of the free‑software movement, practical advantages over Windows, installation basics, compatibility issues, and a detailed comparison with UNIX, highlighting differences in licensing, hardware support, and usage.
Over three years, a small fintech company transformed its platform from a single‑server PHP/Java stack to a micro‑service‑based Spring Cloud architecture, undergoing four major upgrades that introduced distributed systems, SOA governance, big‑data pipelines, MongoDB replication, Redis caching, and open‑source tools, enabling transaction volumes exceeding one hundred billion.
DBProxy, an open‑source MySQL middleware derived from Atlas, offers horizontal scaling, read/write separation, load balancing, advanced blacklist filtering, dynamic configuration, and numerous bug fixes, positioning it as a mature, high‑availability solution for enterprise database environments.
An in‑depth look at WeChat’s Mars library reveals how a cross‑platform, high‑availability network component was designed, evolved through three phases, tackled real‑world mobile challenges, and was refactored and open‑sourced to support Android, iOS and other platforms.
This article shares practical strategies for designing a cost‑effective, highly available infrastructure for a fresh‑food e‑commerce business, covering business model impact, virtual‑physical hybrid data centers, cloud‑on‑premise balance, open‑source tools, load balancing, monitoring, security, and internal service systems.
This article explains how MariaDB, a community‑driven fork of MySQL, maintains full compatibility while adding new storage engines, advanced replication, performance‑boosting features like XtraDB and thread pools, and why many organizations consider it a superior replacement for Oracle‑owned MySQL.
Alibaba’s recent donation of its high‑performance distributed messaging platform RocketMQ to the Apache Foundation marks a significant step for open‑source middleware, promising broader adoption, enhanced community collaboration, and new opportunities for developers building scalable, low‑latency systems across cloud and IoT environments.
PhxSQL is an open‑source, MySQL‑compatible relational database cluster that provides high availability and strong data consistency through a single‑master multi‑slave architecture, automatically switching masters when over half the nodes are alive, without relying on external services like Zookeeper, and requiring no code changes for migration.
This article introduces JMeter as an open‑source Java‑based performance testing tool, explains its directory and code structure, describes how to compile and run it with Ant, and provides a step‑by‑step guide to extending JMeter with a custom JSON assertion and GUI component.
This article introduces cloud computing fundamentals, explains the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS service models, and shares why the HULK virtualization team builds its own IaaS using open‑source tools like OpenStack, KVM, and Open vSwitch to reduce cost, increase flexibility, and improve security.
This article introduces the open‑source Contiki operating system for IoT, detailing its history, core features such as memory management and network stacks, source‑level modules, as well as its advantages, drawbacks, and why its ready‑to‑use development environment remains valuable for embedded developers.
This article enumerates and briefly describes the 18 open‑source iOS libraries and components that were used during the development of the NetEase News iOS application, covering networking, UI, audio, image handling, and utility functions.
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has dramatically embraced open source, climbing to the top of GitHub’s contribution leaderboard with 16,419 contributions—surpassing Facebook, Docker, Angular, and Google—while opening key technologies such as .NET, Chakra, MSBuild, Xamarin, and PowerShell to the community.
This article introduces three popular open‑source monitoring solutions—Nagios, Graphite, and Icinga—detailing their core features, architecture components, and typical use cases for server, network, and application performance monitoring.
The article lists eight common complaints about MySQL—from deep‑rooted bugs and inflexible relational schemas to confusing forks, storage‑engine chaos, profit‑driven licensing, weak native JSON support, and proprietary extensions—highlighting why many developers consider alternatives.
The article reviews WeChat’s newly open‑sourced PhxSQL, a MySQL clustering solution that promises high availability and strong consistency, examines its complex architecture with added Phxbinlogsvr and Phxsqlproxy components, and discusses practical concerns such as deployment difficulty, replication latency, lack of multi‑master writes, semi‑synchronous behavior, and monitoring challenges.
This article provides a step‑by‑step beginner tutorial on GitHub, explaining what Git is, how to create repositories, clone them locally, make changes, commit and sync, roll back versions, and explore various non‑coding uses such as writing books, managing documents, and building personal sites.
Linus Torvalds discusses the origins of Linux, the role of open‑source collaboration, the evolution of Git, his personal work habits, and the broader impact of open‑source software on technology, business, and future innovation in a candid TED‑style interview.
The July 16‑17 IETF Hackathon in Berlin brought together over 150 developers and standards experts, showcasing ONOS's open north‑ and south‑bound programmability through four IETF‑aligned scenarios, remote lab integration, and award‑winning innovations in SDN networking.
The article examines Oracle's gradual abandonment of Java EE, detailing how funding cuts, internal re‑assignments, and legal battles have stalled development, sparked community backlash, and raised concerns about the future of enterprise Java and its ecosystem.
This article chronicles the evolution of the .NET framework from its 2002 debut through major open‑source milestones, details the emergence of .NET Core as a cross‑platform solution, and discusses its future prospects for developers.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Alibaba's numerous open‑source projects, ranging from high‑performance service frameworks and databases to messaging middleware, frontend tools, testing platforms, and infrastructure utilities, highlighting their key features and typical use cases.
This article introduces dataplay2, an open‑source self‑service BI platform built with Flask, pandas, scikit‑learn on the backend and React, ECharts, D3, and other JavaScript libraries on the frontend, detailing its architecture, installation steps, core features such as data upload, visualization, classification, clustering, and future improvement ideas.
This article explains how to achieve storage tiering on Linux hosts by virtualizing fast SSDs and slower HDDs into a single device, detailing two approaches—kernel block‑device drivers and LVM‑based solutions—along with their implementation steps, open‑source projects, and trade‑offs.
The article introduces MyCat, an open‑source distributed database middleware that provides transparent sharding, multi‑backend support, AI‑driven catlet extensions, and advanced read‑write splitting to enable low‑cost migration of single‑node databases to cloud environments while addressing performance and scalability challenges.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of numerous Alibaba open‑source projects, ranging from service frameworks like Dubbo and database tools such as Druid and OceanBase to front‑end libraries, distributed systems, testing platforms, and cloud utilities, each briefly described with links for further reference.
This article compares traditional (IOE‑based) and internet (open‑source) operation models, examines their architectural, target‑object, personnel, and philosophical differences, explores the de‑IOE movement, and outlines emerging trends shaping the future of IT operations.
This article introduces SNMP fundamentals, outlines the monitoring workflow, compares cacti and Nagios, and explains how Zabbix combines their strengths, covering its supported database back‑ends, core components, logical architecture, and the processes spawned by the Zabbix server.
The article explains why and how to adopt open‑source projects, covering their benefits, common pitfalls, and practical guidance on selecting, using, and extending them safely through careful evaluation, testing, operational readiness, and thoughtful customization.
In this interview, Meituan’s technology committee chair Xia Huaxia explains how the company’s architecture evolved from a simple LAMP stack to a multi‑layer, cloud‑native system, detailing the separation of infrastructure, business, and front‑end components, the use of open‑source tools, and the systematic simplification, standardization, automation, and quantification of business processes to support rapid O2O growth.
This article provides a comprehensive, curated overview of the most influential open‑source software across the full technology stack—including operating systems, web servers, programming languages, frameworks, databases, big‑data tools, and development utilities—offering practical insights for engineers seeking to understand and adopt proven solutions.
This guide walks you through the basics of GitHub, including creating an account, configuring SSH keys, creating repositories, cloning and pushing code, and contributing to other open‑source projects, with step‑by‑step screenshots to help beginners start using GitHub effectively.
This article introduces eleven Linux-based data recovery utilities, describing their main features, usage scenarios, and official download links, to help users protect and restore valuable data after hard‑drive failures or system crashes.
This article compiles a comprehensive, English‑language overview of numerous open‑source .NET libraries and frameworks—including caching, logging, NoSQL, scheduling, IoC containers, ORMs, serialization, cross‑platform runtimes, web, mobile, networking, graphics, desktop, testing, transaction, search, validation, charting, and messaging solutions—providing brief descriptions for each.
This article introduces fifteen powerful PHP libraries—from testing tools like Mink to HTTP clients such as Requests and caching solutions like Stash—highlighting their key features and how they can accelerate backend development and improve web application performance.
The article enumerates eight fundamental issues with MySQL—including deep‑seated bugs, rigid relational schemas, complex JOIN handling, confusing branch and storage‑engine choices, profit‑driven licensing, lack of native JSON support, and proprietary modules—while urging developers to consider more flexible alternatives.
This article explores the DRY principle in software development, explains why many open‑source projects violate it, and provides practical guidance on selecting, using, and customizing open‑source solutions through real‑world case studies, focusing on business fit, maturity, operational capability, and safe integration.
This guide shares practical experiences and lessons on selecting suitable open‑source components, testing and deploying them safely, and deciding when and how to modify or extend them, helping teams avoid costly pitfalls while leveraging community‑driven software.
The article outlines nine practical advantages of open‑source software—zero cost, instant availability, rapid security fixes, higher security, comprehensive community support, user‑centric customization, extended hardware lifespan, enhanced privacy, and superior overall quality—explaining why it remains a strong competitor to proprietary solutions.
This guide explains what open‑source software is, why contributing matters, and provides step‑by‑step resources for beginners to choose a language, locate easy bugs, and start contributing to projects like Fedora, Mozilla, KDE, OpenStack, GNOME, Apache, Python, and Django.
During 2015 Microsoft made a series of notable open‑source and Linux‑related moves—including adding VP9 support to Edge, open‑sourcing the Chakra JavaScript engine, .NET, MSBuild, contributing Hyper‑V to Linux, releasing Azure Cloud Switch, and bringing Visual Studio Code and its compiler tools to Linux.
Over the past decade, open‑source software has surged in the enterprise sector, driven by startups and venture capital, with surveys showing widespread adoption, increased contributions, and strong security advantages that are reshaping IT architecture, cloud, and big‑data strategies.
The 2015 database landscape saw cloud integration, open‑source momentum, and major product releases—from SequoiaDB and MySQL Cluster to OceanBase and Greenplum—highlighting shifting market dynamics, emerging Chinese solutions, and the continued relevance of relational databases amid NoSQL growth.
Facing massive storage and high‑concurrency demands, Gleasy’s chief architect Xue Ke explains how the company combines open‑source foundations with custom middleware—such as CloudMQ, CloudFS, CloudIM, CloudIndex, and CloudJob—to build a distributed framework that simplifies app integration, improves performance, and reduces development cycles.
Nagios is an enterprise‑grade, open‑source monitoring framework that tracks server, service, and network metrics such as CPU usage, memory, disk space, and network throughput, alerts via email or SMS on anomalies, and consists of a core, plugins, and extensions, though it lacks built‑in reporting and has configuration limitations.
This article examines the rise of cloud‑native architectures, explains core concepts of Message Oriented Middleware, compares JMS and AMQP protocols, evaluates major commercial and open‑source queue products across functionality, operations management, clustering, high‑availability, stability and extensions, and presents detailed performance test results for point‑to‑point and publish/subscribe modes.
In an interview at Huawei's 2015 Developer Conference, GitHub CIO Scott Chacon explains how open‑source culture, simple APIs, and global collaboration drive GitHub’s growth, security resilience, and its partnership with Huawei to reach Chinese developers.
During his first visit to China, Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Delphi, C# and lead of TypeScript, shared personal insights on lifelong coding, open‑source advocacy, and his minimalist language design principles, while highlighting TypeScript’s type system, ES6 support, and its growing industry adoption.
This comprehensive, curated list presents over fifty PHP libraries and tools spanning websites, dependency management, frameworks, micro‑frameworks, routing, templating, static site generators, HTTP clients, middleware, URL handling, email, file operations, streams, dependency injection, imaging, testing, continuous integration, documentation, security, password handling, code analysis, architecture, debugging, build tools, task runners, navigation, asset management, geolocation, date‑time, events, logging, e‑commerce, PDF, office formats, databases, migrations, NoSQL, queues, search, command‑line utilities, authentication, markup, string manipulation, numeric handling, validation, REST/APIs, caching, data structures, notifications, deployment, internationalisation, third‑party APIs, extensions and miscellaneous utilities, providing developers with a one‑stop reference for PHP development.
This article introduces Elastic-Job, a Java‑based distributed job scheduling framework from Dangdang, covering its origins, core features such as sharding and elastic scaling, deployment with Zookeeper, best‑practice usage, open‑source development philosophy, future improvements, and detailed Q&A.
Red Hat announced at the Tokyo OpenStack Summit that governance of its Ceph software‑defined storage suite will shift from Red Hat to a newly formed Ceph Advisory Board comprising multiple industry leaders, signaling broader community control and continued growth of Ceph as a key cloud storage solution.
This article introduces CrazyEye, an open‑source bastion host that centralizes permission and audit management for large server fleets, explains its key features such as fine‑grained access control, command logging, and batch operations, and provides setup screenshots and the Git repository link.
This article provides a concise overview of several open‑source real‑time stream processing platforms—including S4, Storm, StreamBase, HStreaming, Esper/NEsper, Kafka, Scribe, and Flume—highlighting their main features, programming languages, and project links for further reference.
This article compiles over 60 of the best open-source DevOps tools—including version-control systems, build automation, CI/CD platforms, container runtimes, configuration-management solutions, monitoring and logging utilities—to help developers implement efficient, automated, and scalable workflows without cost.
The article traces humanity’s long‑standing quest for intelligent machines—from early mechanical curiosities and Turing’s seminal test to modern breakthroughs in deep learning, highlighting how hierarchical feature learning, massive data, and collaborative open‑source efforts are reshaping AI and its future impact.
This article records a WeChat Q&A where industry experts discuss selecting open‑source big data solutions, advertising‑specific data scenarios, and share a practical lambda‑style platform architecture featuring Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Elasticsearch, Redis and MySQL.
This article traces the seven‑year evolution of cloud computing from the early public‑vs‑private debate and open‑source battles to the Docker‑driven 2.0 era, highlighting shifts in business models, data as a core asset, and emerging trends in data‑center design.
At Airbnb’s inaugural OpenAir conference, the company unveiled three open‑source big‑data tools—Airpal, a Presto‑based visual SQL query engine; Aerosolve, an interpretable machine‑learning engine for pricing recommendations; and Airflow, an internal platform for orchestrating and monitoring data pipelines.
This article chronicles Java's origin in the mid‑1990s, its rapid growth, challenges, open‑source transformation, and enduring impact on backend development, cloud, big data, and mobile platforms, while projecting its continued relevance for the next two decades.
Disque, an open‑source distributed in‑memory message broker created by Redis's creator, offers synchronous replication, flexible delivery semantics, multi‑master clustering, and fine‑grained job control, but remains in Alpha with several limitations that make it unsuitable for production use today.
The April 25, 2015 Suning Cloud Computing sharing session in Nanjing gathered around 200 cloud enthusiasts and developers, featuring talks on CloudStack’s open‑source contributions, troubleshooting, Docker adoption, object storage practices, custom network design, and distributed storage systems, followed by Q&A and a group photo.
RethinkDB 2.0, released after five years of development, brings over 2,000 improvements, live query support, distributed scaling, new driver integrations, and enterprise services, and is already powering real‑time applications for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms.
In an in‑depth interview, 360’s web platform architect Wang Chao explains the open‑source and proprietary database technologies, multi‑data‑center NoSQL system Bada, and layered security mechanisms that power 360’s search, cloud storage and other high‑traffic services.
gRPC, an open‑source RPC framework built by Google on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, offers strong IDL capabilities, multi‑language support, and efficient streaming that reduce bandwidth, CPU usage, and battery drain, making it ideal for low‑latency, scalable backend and mobile client architectures.
The article examines the debate between Docker and Rocket, highlighting how Docker evolved from a simple container component to a full platform, while Rocket aims to remain a modular, open‑source component, and discusses the implications for enterprises choosing between the two technologies.
Discontent with Joyent’s corporate stewardship prompted several core Node.js developers to fork the runtime into Io.js, releasing a V8‑upgraded alpha in January 2015, a move that highlights open‑source governance tensions and could reshape backend adoption by offering a more autonomous, community‑driven platform.
The author shares the story of launching the Onepay open‑source tip button on GitHub, explains core Git concepts such as distributed repositories, branching and forking, and reflects on why open‑source collaboration outweighs closed‑source models for technological progress.
The article examines the recent split of the Node.js community that led to the creation of Io.js, exploring the underlying governance conflicts, commercial motivations of Joyent, and the broader implications for open‑source project independence and adoption across major enterprises.
The article explains how io.js emerged as a community‑driven fork of Node.js in early 2015 to address release frequency and governance concerns, describing its open management model, weekly release plans, compatibility with the npm ecosystem, and the broader context of Node Forward and community reactions.
This article compiles a selection of concise open‑source projects—each typically under 5,000 lines of code—spanning JavaScript modules, Node.js frameworks, Python tools, Emacs utilities, C libraries, databases, web servers, and more, offering beginners practical codebases to study and learn from.
This curated collection, maintained by fffaraz, enumerates a comprehensive range of C++ frameworks, libraries, and resources—including the standard library, web and GUI frameworks, AI, networking, graphics, audio, databases, cryptography, machine learning, concurrency, serialization, build tools, IDEs, and debugging utilities—for developers seeking ready‑made solutions.
Looking ahead, programmers may see GPUs supplant CPUs, databases handle complex analytics, JavaScript dominate browsers and servers, Android power every device, the Internet of Things expand, open‑source ecosystems seek sustainable funding, CMS tools become richer, plugin‑centric development replace monolithic coding, command‑line interfaces endure, education strives for true simplification, outsourcing battles automation, and managers risk growing technically illiterate.
The article analyzes why finding a suitable technical co‑founder is hard for non‑technical entrepreneurs and outlines two hiring models, practical principles, and open‑source strategies to build a capable development team while avoiding common pitfalls and technical debt.
This article explains how leveraging CDN technology—through caching proxies, routing acceleration, security protection, and cost‑saving strategies—can overcome regional network limitations, mitigate DDoS attacks, and optimize storage and load‑balancing, while also comparing open‑source reverse‑proxy solutions and offering practical hardware and software tuning tips.
The article examines the practical and economic obstacles that prevent many projects from moving from Python 2 to Python 3, highlighting the loss of third‑party libraries, compatibility headaches, costly rewrites, and proposes controversial ideas such as forking Python 2.7 to keep legacy code alive.
This article profiles fourteen of the most influential programmers, detailing their key contributions, awards, and the high praise they receive from peers, offering a concise overview of the individuals who have driven major advances in software, algorithms, and open‑source technology.
The author recounts how a simple web‑based 2048 clone unexpectedly went viral, the pressures of sudden fame, the ethical dilemmas of monetizing an open‑source game, and the technical process of turning it into a PhoneGap‑based mobile app while reflecting on personal growth.
The article surveys the rapid growth of big data across sectors, highlights key open‑source technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase and others, and profiles ten influential companies—including AWS, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and Microsoft—offering insight into current trends, capabilities and competitive dynamics in the big‑data ecosystem.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of App Engine as a PaaS solution, analyzes leading platforms such as CloudFoundry and SAE, outlines architectural requirements, and presents practical implementation guidance using open‑source tools like Nginx, Scribe, and Storm for elastic, scalable cloud services.
