Ballerine is an open-source infrastructure for user identity and risk management that helps companies verify customer identity by composing verification processes through modular building blocks, components, and third-party integrations. “The goal is to allow any company to manage user identity and risk in a way that suits them and their unique changing needs,” the project’s … continue reading
Stargate is a data API gateway built on top of Apache Cassandra. The API gateway was created as a way to let developers work in frameworks and structures familiar to them without having to know all the particulars of the underlying database. Stargate v2 is now generally available with more flexible deployments and makes it … continue reading
Google announced that it open-sourced several components for its secure operating system called KataOS as part of an effort to build verifiably secure systems for embedded hardware. Google Research aims to solve this problem by providing a secure platform optimized for embedded devices running ML applications. SeL4 is the microkernel for the project because it … continue reading
Cloud Seed is a new open source project developed jointly by GitLab and Google Cloud. It allows developers to provision Google Cloud services right from within GitLab’s UI. “We believe that it should be trivial to deploy web applications (and other workloads) from GitLab to major cloud providers. To support this effort, Cloud Seed makes … continue reading
Cloudflare recently announced workerd, its new open-source JavaScript/Wasm runtime that is based on the same code that powers Cloudflare Workers. While workerd does share the majority of its code with the runtime that powers Cloudfare Workers, it has been modified in order to make it more portable to other environments. Workerd can be used to … continue reading
The BigCode initiative’s aim is to build state-of-the-art large language learning models (LLMs) to build code in an open and responsible way. Code LLMs enable the completion and synthesis of code from other code and natural language descriptions, and enables users to work across a wide range of domains, tasks, and programming languages. The initiative … continue reading
Project Liberty is an open-source project with a goal of creating a new “civic architecture for the digital world that returns the ownership and control of personal data to individuals, embeds ethical values into technology, and expands economic opportunities for web users and developers alike.” In other words, it aims to give users control over … continue reading
Luos is an open-source lightweight library that enables developers to develop and scale their edge and embedded distributed software. Developers can create portable and scalable packages that they can share with teams and communities and the project’s engine encapsulates embedded features in services with APIs, providing direct access to hardware. Remote control enables users to … continue reading
Umami was built as an open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics that lets users gather the data they need while respecting user privacy. Because it doesn’t collect any personal information, doesn’t use cookies, and doesn’t track users across websites, it doesn’t require users to display a cookie notice. All data is anonymized and makes … continue reading
Meta has recently announced its open-source project, Velox. This offering comes as an execution engine aimed at accelerating data management systems and streamlining their development. Velox is currently under active development and is geared at helping to consolidate and unify data management systems in a beneficial way. The open-source project aims to solve the challenge … continue reading
TDEngine is an open-source, cloud-native time-series database that is optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, and Industrial IoT. It allows for efficient, real-time ingestion, processing, and monitoring of terabytes and petabytes of data daily, created by billions of sensors and data collectors. According to the team at TDEngine, this offering works to solve … continue reading
Astro is a web framework for building fast and content-focused websites that has gained many new features since its original beta announcement in April. The latest release, 1.0, was released earlier this week. It includes new <Image /> and <Picture /> components, MDX support with standard syntax for mixing UI components in Markdown, server output … continue reading
Milvus is an open-source vector database that is capable of managing large quantities of both structured and unstructured data to accelerate the development of next-generation data fabric. According to Zilliz, the database company that created the project, Milvus is built for scalable similarity search used by enterprises spanning several industries. It also works with distributed … continue reading
OpenTDF allows developers to utilize the Trusted Data Format (TDF) to incorporate data protection in their applications. TDF itself is a data object wrapper and it can be used to protect nearly all electronic data types. TDF standards and specifications are currently maintained by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. OpenTDF is an … continue reading
