Open Source Resources for Engineers

Why Developers Should Contribute To Open Source

This article explores why developers should actively contribute to open source and how it can benefit their professional growth and the software industry.

August 2, 2023

by Ravi Jadhav

· 6,298 Views · 7 Likes

Apache APISIX Without etcd

etcd is an excellent piece of infrastructure Kubernetes uses, but there might be better choices in some contexts. Here, learn how you can use MySQL with APISIX.

July 31, 2023

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 7,237 Views · 1 Like

Key Developer Concepts and Tools in Software Supply Chain Security

By harnessing provenance, developers and security teams can lock down the entire software supply chain and prevent the exploitation of artifacts.

July 31, 2023

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 4,870 Views · 3 Likes

Turbocharge Your Apache Spark Jobs for Unmatched Performance

This article delves into optimizing Apache Spark jobs, identifying common performance issues, and key optimization techniques with practical code examples.

July 17, 2023

by Mohamed Manzoor Ul Hassan

· 4,372 Views · 3 Likes

Podman: Advantages and Disadvantages

Podman is a popular container management tool that has gained traction as an alternative to Docker. Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using Podman.

July 16, 2023

by Aditya Bhuyan

· 6,141 Views · 2 Likes

Observability Architecture: Financial Calculations Example

Explore open-source cloud-based o11y financial calculations architecture with a schematic diagram that captures the elements of a successful solution.

July 11, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 5,751 Views · 4 Likes

Kubernetes: Advantages and Disadvantages

Discover the advantages and drawbacks of implementing an application with Kubernetes, a popular container orchestration system.

July 7, 2023

by Aditya Bhuyan

· 7,732 Views · 3 Likes

Smaller Is Better: Ultra-Compact Graph Representations for Big Graphs

Learn about loading 17 billion triples into TerminusDB on one machine using parallel ingests, concatenation, streaming, and a low memory footprint to provide a queryable database.

July 6, 2023

by Gavin Mendel-Gleason

· 3,826 Views · 1 Like

How To Improve GraphQL API Security

Open-source GraphQL has become increasingly popular for API modernization — but securing GraphQL deployments requires foresight and smart execution.

June 29, 2023

by Cristi Vlad

· 4,541 Views · 3 Likes

O11y Guide: Without Observability, It's Just Code

Learn what makes cloud-native observability so crucial to your organization's success and find out why without observability, it's just code that you are deploying.

June 28, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

CORE

· 6,587 Views · 4 Likes

Ory vs Keycloak vs SuperTokens

Open-source authentication has seen great progress over recent years. In this post, compare three of the leading open-source authentication providers.

June 27, 2023

by Advait Ruia

· 3,263 Views · 1 Like

Observability Architecture: Financial Payments Example

Explore open-source cloud-based o11y financial payments architecture with a schematic diagram that captures the elements of a successful payment solution.

June 21, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 6,535 Views · 3 Likes

Real-World Cyberattacks Targeting Data Science Tools

Aqua Nautilus researchers explore how to protect Jupyter Notebook and other popular data science tools against crypto mining and ransomware attacks.

June 21, 2023

by Assaf Morag

· 3,997 Views · 1 Like

Guide: How to Mask Sensitive Information Using Fluent Bit

In this article, the author will discuss how to mask sensitive information using Fluent Bit, a popular open-source log processor.

June 19, 2023

by Sharad Regoti

· 6,029 Views · 2 Likes

Disrupting the AI Scene With Open Source and Open Innovation

AI's destiny is to be overtaken by small and medium-sized companies leveraging Open Source and Open Innovation. Even Google and OpenAI agree!

June 19, 2023

by Thomas Hansen

CORE

· 4,257 Views · 2 Likes

Getting Started With Prometheus Workshop: Relabeling Metrics in Prometheus

Interested in open-source observability? Learn about relabeling metrics and how to apply them when mapping, aggregating, dropping, or filtering scraped metrics.

June 16, 2023

by Eric D. Schabell

· 5,812 Views · 5 Likes

How Grafana 10 Makes Observability Easier for Developers

Here’s a look at 10 key ways the latest release of Grafana is making it easier for developers to visualize observability data.

June 14, 2023

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 5,959 Views · 4 Likes

Transfer Learning in NLP: Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Text Classification

In this article, we will discuss the concept of transfer learning, explore some popular pre-trained models, and demonstrate how to use them for text classification.

June 12, 2023

by Suresh Rajasekaran

· 7,695 Views · 4 Likes

Train Your Own Private ChatGPT Model for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee

With the cost of a cup of Starbucks and two hours of your time, you can own your own trained open-source large-scale model.

June 8, 2023

by Jieguang Zhou

· 4,367 Views · 2 Likes

The Effect of Data Storage Strategy on PostgreSQL Performance

The free and fully open-source version of PostgreSQL is enterprise-ready; here's how to make its performance hum even with read/write-heavy workloads.

June 8, 2023

by Anil Inamdar

· 4,970 Views · 2 Likes

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