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
The cloud-based enterprise data platform may mark the end of a decades-long run in the dominance of open source infrastructure
Kubernetes doesn’t offer the magical application portability you might expect, but something better.
Linux not only paved the way for open source success, but has shaped how open source communities operate.
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.
Cloud spend will need to grow many more years before it becomes even a meaningful fraction of total IT spending.
While open source software is free and infinitely reproducible, open source maintainers are precious and scarce.
MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz reflects on the creation of MongoDB and his 13 years with the company.
For kube-state-metrics maintainer and Red Hat employee Lili Cosic, what Red Hat wants from the project is beside the point.
Kubernetes solves only half the problem of modernising applications. The next stage will be filling the gap between Kubernetes and applications.
Google’s new foundation provides trademark protection to open source projects, starting with Istio, Angular, and Gerrit. Not everyone is pleased.
We have hundreds of different databases to choose from for storing our data — and we need more.
Across the industry, tech vendors are mostly eschewing earnings guidance, given the uncertainty caused by Covid-19.
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.
Many important projects are maintained by volunteer developers who may now have more pressing needs than volunteering.
We rightly put open source contributors on a pedestal, but perhaps we should rethink the hierarchy of contributions