Open Source

Do developers really care about open source?

If all a developer really wants is an API that’s open and a cost model that works, then maybe cloud is the best answer

Open source has a people problem

While open source software is free and infinitely reproducible, open source maintainers are precious and scarce

The community hat rules the company hat in open source

For kube-state-metrics maintainer and Red Hat employee Lili Cosic, what Red Hat wants from the project is beside the point

Deeplearning4j: Deep learning and ETL for the JVM

Aimed at integrating models with Java applications, Deeplearning4j offers a stack of components for building JVM-based applications that incorporate AI

What is Google’s Open Usage Commons — and why?

Google’s new foundation provides trademark protection to open source projects, starting with Istio, Angular, and Gerrit. Not everyone is pleased

What does an open source maintainer do after burnout?

Maintaining an open source project is far different from coding, which is a problem if coding is what you love

The unwavering optimism of Tim O’Reilly

Microsoft unveils Pylance, its new Python extension for Visual Studio Code

Pylance works with the existing Microsoft Python extension to bring faster type checking and program analysis to Python devs

The power of open source to fight COVID-19

By fueling the sharing of resources and technology across the globe, open source is helping to address the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic

Developers will decide cloud winners and losers

Companies might choose AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, but their developers will decide what runs there