The team at Google has recently introduced Service Weaver, an open-source framework for building and deploying distributed applications that allows users to write apps as a modular monolith and deploy them as a set of microservices. Service Weaver is made up of two core pieces. The first is a set of programming libraries which allow … continue reading
Most code in existence today utilizes open-source components, but it’s important to remember where, and who, that open-source code comes from. Open-source software is mostly developed and maintained by volunteers. Unlike a company with resources to hire more developers, the maintainers of most open-source projects have to carry the burden of what comes after them. … continue reading
APITable is an API-oriented visual database created to help developers build collaborative apps. The maintainers consider it to be “the best Airtable open-source alternative.” The platform provides an advanced technology stack, which allows multiple users to edit together in real-time or with the ‘Operational Transformation’ algorithm. It also includes a user-friendly database spreadsheet interface and … continue reading
Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs … continue reading
The 2023 Call for Code, a global program that invites developers around the world to contribute to open-source technology projects that address social and humanitarian issues, has recently been announced by creator David Clark, founding partner IBM, charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate the Linux Foundation. This year’s Call for Code is … continue reading
ToolJet is an open-source, low-code application development platform for building and deploying business applications. Users can use it to build complicated front ends without any experience in React, CSS, or event HTML. They can also drag and drop over 35 built-in UI components for more complicated frontends. With ToolJet, developers can also verify the current … continue reading
HashiCorp announced that it is open-sourcing the design system used in the company’s product UIs called Helios. Helios was launched internally 6 months ago, and it enables product teams to create beautiful, consistent, and accessible user experiences and interfaces, all while being scalable and flexible. “The public launch of Helios is an active choice to … continue reading
The team at Netlify, the modern web development platform, has announced its acquisition of Gatsby Inc., provider of a cloud platform for web delivery and content orchestration, and creators of the open-source framework Gatsby. According to Netlify, this latest acquisition is geared at further supporting its 3 million users with the addition of Gatsby’s open-source, … continue reading
Builder.io is an open-source Virtual CMS that allows users to adopt a collaborative development process in order to find the right balance between developer control and business team autonomy. With Builder.io, customers can drag and drop Visual CMS for React, Vue, Qwik, Angular, and more. Additionally, the project’s GitHub page stated that Builder.io can integrate … continue reading
The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) for the purpose of providing a collaborative environment for a variety of industries to build open-source software and standards for an inclusive, global, vendor-neutral, and scalable Metaverse. “We’re still in the early days of the vision for an open Metaverse, and we recognize … continue reading
Keploy is a functional testing toolkit designed for developers that generates E2E tests for APIs (KTests) as well as mocks or stubs (KMocks) by recording real API calls. According to the project’s GitHub page, KTests can be imported as mocks for consumers and vice-versa. KTests can also be merged with unit testing libraries such as … continue reading
OptaPlanner is an open-source, lightweight, embeddable planning engine. With this, organizations can reduce costs, improve service quality, fulfill employee wishes, and reduce carbon emissions. It is object oriented programming and functional programming friendly and, according to the company, it works to allow programmers to efficiently solve optimization problems. This open-source tool improves plans and schedules … continue reading
