Does Snowflake mean the end of open source?
The cloud-based enterprise data platform may mark the end of a decades-long run in the dominance of open source infrastructure
Stories by Matt Asay
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Kubernetes and cloud portability - it’s complicated
Kubernetes doesn’t offer the magical application portability you might expect, but something better.
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For open source, Linux is still the standard
Linux not only paved the way for open source success, but has shaped how open source communities operate.
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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.
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Why cloud is going to take time
Cloud spend will need to grow many more years before it becomes even a meaningful fraction of total IT spending.
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Why open source has a people problem
While open source software is free and infinitely reproducible, open source maintainers are precious and scarce.
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Why MongoDB is ‘fundamentally better’ for developers
MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz reflects on the creation of MongoDB and his 13 years with the company.
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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.
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What comes after Kubernetes?
Kubernetes solves only half the problem of modernising applications. The next stage will be filling the gap between Kubernetes and applications.
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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.
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Do we need so many databases?
We have hundreds of different databases to choose from for storing our data — and we need more.
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Businesses that let developers, not executives, select tech will best navigate change
Across the industry, tech vendors are mostly eschewing earnings guidance, given the uncertainty caused by Covid-19.
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Remember when open source was fun?
For the creators of Drupal, Curl, and Fio, their projects didn’t seem like work. There might be a lesson for the rest of us.
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Will the solo open source developer survive the pandemic?
Many important projects are maintained by volunteer developers who may now have more pressing needs than volunteering.
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The most important part of an open source project
We rightly put open source contributors on a pedestal, but perhaps we should rethink the hierarchy of contributions
