Category: Blog

  • Tarantool: A Lua-based database engine

    [ad_1] This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference, I’ll be discussing Tarantool. Tarantool is an open source Lua application server integrated with a database management system that incorporates the LuaJIT “Just In Time” compiler, Lua libraries for most common applications, and the Tarantool database server which is an established NoSQL database management system. My…

  • Storming the government castle

    [ad_1] Open source software seems like a perfect fit for government IT projects. Developers can take advantage of existing code bases and, it’s hoped, mold that code to their needs quickly and at less cost than developing code from scratch. Over the last few years, governments in the U.S. and abroad have been more closely…

  • 5 reasons to use Docker for productivity software installation

    [ad_1] When Docker brought new life to Linux containers at the beginning of 2013, the technology quickly gained popularity among software developers. Today Docker has millions of container downloads, thousands of community contributors, and countless third party projects who are using it. What explains this extraordinary popularity?  There are many articles out there trying to answer that question, describing the Docker features…

  • Using behavioral patterns to build awesome communities

    [ad_1] Human beings are complicated animals. We are packed with ambitions, fears, desires, anxieties, and other nuggets of the human condition. Of course, the extent and manifestation of these different elements varies from person to person, across cultures, and in different environments. This makes building human systems—such as communities or companies—complicated. To some (typically bureaucrats),…

  • Is your open team fully awesome, or too cool for school?

    [ad_1] Whether you’re teaching a piece of software or a concept, facilitating a workshop to hack on a project or product, or even organizing a donor night for your local nonprofit, you will have to deal with multiple personality types. And anyone leading an open organization today knows that managing group and team dynamics is an…

  • 6 steps to calculate ROI for an open hardware project

    [ad_1] Free and open source software advocates have courageously blazed a trail that is now being followed by those interested in open source for physical objects. It’s called free and open source hardware (FOSH), and we’re seeing an exponential rise in the number of free designs for hardware released under opensource licenses, Creative Commons licenses,or…

  • What's new in MySQL?

    [ad_1] This year at the Percona Live Data Performance Conference I’ll be talking about MySQL. MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, enabling the cost-effective delivery of reliable, high-performance and scalable web-based and embedded database applications, including all five of the top five websites. My interest in databases grew while working in banking…

  • Is your open source community optimized for contributors?

    [ad_1] Josh Matthews is a platform developer at Mozilla. He’s a programmer who writes Rust code and is active in the development of Firefox. His development experience has led him to enjoy mentoring new contributors in open source projects. Josh is going to be speaking at OSCON 2016 on the topic of Optimizing your project…

  • OpenStack community welcomes the Mitaka release

    [ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. read more [ad_2] Source link

  • OpenTraffic for Manila, US agencies to release 20% code as open source, and more news

    [ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the new Civil Infrastructure Platform from the Linux Foundation, the White House to mandate open source, solving Asia’s traffic problems, and more. Open source news roundup for April 2 – 8, 2016 Solving Asia’s traffic problems with open source How do you…