Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of open-source software. More specifically, tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the term “open source.” The phrase was coined by Christine Peterson, the cofounder and past president of the nontech public interest group Foresight Institute. After 20 years, Peterson is revealing more insight into how the use of the term open-source … continue reading
Salesforce has announced it is open sourcing its Node.js voice enabling platform Violet. The project was started early last year in collaboration with the Amazon Salesforce Immersion team. The teams worked to leverage voice capability while building a great user experience. “We quickly got very excited about the potential voice-enabled devices present-s-, but it also … continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing its object detection research platform Detectron. The project was started by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in 2016 to create a fast and flexible object detection system built on the deep learning framework Caffe2. The goal of the project is to provide a high-quality, high-performance codebase for object detection research. … continue reading
The Aurelia team has announced big ambitions to add new features and platform capabilities in 2018. Aurelia is an open source, next generation JavaScript client framework for web, mobile and desktop. The team announced plans to add support for server-side rendering, enhance the project’s UX, provide strong compatibility for web components, address sing-file component development … continue reading
You may often hear programmers claim that once you’ve mastered your first programming language, learning additional languages is easy. Once you have the basic concepts mastered, it’s just a matter of learning different syntaxes. While this may be true, when you are juggling between all these different languages, it can sometimes be difficult to keep … continue reading
The Node.js company NodeSource is celebrating the holidays with a new round of funding announced today. In a series B funding, the company raised $17.5 million. The money will be used towards the company’s engineering, support and global go-to-market teams. This brings NodeSource’s total amount raised to $33.4 million since 2014. “Our Node.js solutions are … continue reading
Oracle wants to accelerate the adoption of serverless technology with the Fn Project. Fn is an open source container native serverless platform designed to run on any cloud or on-premise. It features multi-language support, container native capabilities, and provides developers with all the controls they need to implement functions with complex requirements. Other components of … continue reading
From humble beginnings of having just one contributor back in 2015, the open source graph database Dgraph has grown over the past two years to have 46 contributors, 2190 GitHub commits, 277 branches, and 25 releases. It was originally created out of a desire to do away with the typical weaknesses of traditional relational databases. … continue reading
Syncfusion has announced the release of Essential Studio 2017 Volume 4, the final quarterly update to the Developer Platform for 2017. Included in the update is Essential JS 2, which is a collections of 25 Syncfusion JavaScript components. “Tools for web development are a crucial part of cross-platform solutions, wherever your users may be. That’s … continue reading
A new survey released by data Artisans revealed more organizations will turn to stream processing technology in 2018. The second annual Apache Flink user survey found 87 percent of respondents are planning to deploy more apps powered by Apache Flink over the next year. Apache Flink is an open source stream processing framework for data … continue reading
GitLab is expanding on its core tenet of “everyone can contribute” by amending its Proprietary Information and Assignment Agreement (PIAA). The agreement has been updated to clarify how contributors can maintain projects that are unrelated to GitLab. In a recent Twitter poll, the company found 85 percent of respondents have a technical side project outside … continue reading
The Apache Software Foundation has announced version three of the open source software framework for distributed computing. Apache Hadoop 3.0 is the first major release since Hadoop 2 was released in 2013. “Hadoop 3 is a major milestone for the project, and our biggest release ever,” said Andrew Wang, Apache Hadoop 3 release manager. “It … continue reading
