In this week’s Top 5, we highlight Stephen Walli’s 12 memes to explain open source software, an introduction to Picademy, Matthew Tift’s thoughts on whether Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are good or bad for the web, a question from resident-question-asker-and-answer-seeker Jason Baker on what you’ll use to deploy your next big application, and an interview with Jess Portnoy, a PHP developer working on the monitoring tool JaM.

Top 5 articles of the week

5. Meet the PHP developer behind monitoring tool JaM

Developer and JaM maintainer Jess Portnoy tells Seth Kenlon how and why she got involved with the PHP monitoring tool. She’ll be talking at Linuxfest Northwest this year.

4. Containers, virtual machines, or bare metal?

Our resident-question-asker-and-answer-seeker Jason Baker asks: Which technology will you use to deploy your next big application?

3. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP): Open or closed?

As the amount of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) content continues to grow, more questions are being asked about whether or not AMP benefits the open web, and whether AMP is a closed silo. Matthew Tift of Lullabot investigates.

2. Picademy: Free professional development for teachers from the Raspberry Pi Foundation

Learn about Picademy, a free two-day professional development course for teachers learning about the Raspberry Pi. Applications for the April session are open now.

1. 12 memes of open source software

Seasoned open source technologist, Stephen Walli has collected 12 memes to help share the history, set the stage, and provide context for what open source software is and what it means to the software industry at large.

Honorable mention

3 cool projects to celebrate Arduino Day

Last Saturday was Arduino Day and tinkerer Tom Callaway shared three fun Arduino-powered projects to celebrate.