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Open Notebook: A Secure Alternative to Google NotebookLM

Open Notebook is a local, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM that lets you chat with documents while keeping all data private.

February 17, 2026

by Gunter Rotsaert

CORE

· 2,396 Views

Automating Behavioral Evaluations for LLMs: A Practical Guide to Bloom

Automating LLM behavioral testing with Anthropic's open-source tool Bloom: from setup to comparing models across different scenarios in production.

February 5, 2026

by Sushant Mehta

· 1,354 Views

The Messaging Challenges No One Talks About in Regulated, Air-Gapped, and Hybrid Environments

For platform engineering, today's solutions fall short, creating a gap between operational security requirements and modernization goals.

January 20, 2026

by Alvin Lee

CORE

· 1,991 Views

The Rise of Diskless Kafka: Rethinking Brokers, Storage, and the Kafka Protocol

Diskless Kafka stores all event data in object storage without using brokers for scalable and cost-efficient data streaming architectures.

January 9, 2026

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 2,139 Views · 2 Likes

Cloud to Local Copilots: A Hybrid Path to Privacy and Control

Cloud copilots deliver premium experience, while local copilots ensure privacy and control. Hybrid approach may be the future.

January 2, 2026

by Bhala Ranganathan

CORE

· 3,498 Views · 1 Like

Extracting Clean Excel Tables From PDFs Using Python + Docling

Extract tables from PDFs to fully formatted, analysis-ready Excel files with pdf-tables-to-excel, supporting OCR, complex layouts, and numeric parsing.

December 25, 2025

by Sanjay Krishnegowda

· 4,214 Views

Vision Language Action (VLA) Models Powering Robotics of Tomorrow

Explore VLA models transforming robotics through vision, language, and action. Learn about OpenVLA, GR00T, Pi0, and real-world applications.

December 18, 2025

by Kevin Vu

· 1,701 Views · 1 Like

Deployment Strategies for Self-Hosted Open-Source Applications: Balancing Efficiency and Control

Explore deployment options for self-hosted open-source apps: balance speed, control, flexibility, and long-term maintainability.

December 8, 2025

by 悦申

· 3,534 Views · 1 Like

Why Open-Source OpenSearch 3.0 Is More Than Just an Upgrade: An Interview

OpenSearch 3.0 marks a pivotal shift toward a more scalable, flexible, and future-ready open source engine. Here's what you need to know about the project.

December 1, 2025

by Will Brown

· 1,984 Views · 1 Like

DevSecConflict: How Google Project Zero and FFmpeg Went Viral For All the Wrong Reasons

The tension between security and open source highlights the struggle over responsibility as AI uncovers vulnerabilities faster than we can respond.

November 24, 2025

by Katie Paxton-Fear

· 7,400 Views · 6 Likes

How I Cut Kubernetes Debugging Time by 80% With One Bash Script

Built a bash script that analyzes Kubernetes clusters in 60 seconds, generating HTML/JSON/Markdown reports. Saved 70 minutes daily across 8 clusters.

November 20, 2025

by Shamsher Khan

CORE

· 6,221 Views · 4 Likes

DocumentDB Goes Cloud-Native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator

Deploy, manage, and scale DocumentDB on Kubernetes with the new open-source DocumentDB Operator — cloud-native, PostgreSQL-based, and MongoDB-compatible.

November 13, 2025

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 3,256 Views · 2 Likes

Formae and PKL: Revolutionizing Infrastructure Automation

Learn about Formae, an open-source IaC platform introducing a stateless, auto-discovering approach to infrastructure management and PKL, a configuration-as-code language.

November 11, 2025

by Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS

CORE

· 2,339 Views · 3 Likes

An Open-Source ChatGPT App Generator

Create fully functional ChatGPT apps using AI — no coding needed. Build and deploy interactive UI widgets directly inside ChatGPT in just minutes.

October 31, 2025

by Thomas Hansen

CORE

· 2,262 Views · 4 Likes

ZEISS Demonstrates the Power of Scalable Workflows With Ampere® Altra® and SpinKube

ZEISS partnered with Ampere, Fermyon, and Microsoft to cut cloud costs by 60% using SpinKube and WebAssembly for scalable, on-demand workloads.

October 29, 2025

by Scott Fulton III

· 3,999 Views · 4 Likes

Writing (Slightly) Cleaner Code With Collections and Optionals

See how utility methods provided by Kilo's Collections and Optionals classes can help you write more readable and maintainable Java code.

October 27, 2025

by Greg Brown

· 3,036 Views · 1 Like

Cloud Agnostic MLOps: How to Build and Deploy AI Models Across Azure, AWS, and Open Source

Avoid cloud lock-in when building AI. Learn how to use open-source MLOps tools like Airflow, Kubeflow, and MLflow to build, deploy, and monitor models anywhere.

October 24, 2025

by Raghava Dittakavi

CORE

· 3,941 Views · 1 Like

Python Development With Asynchronous SQLite and PostgreSQL

Solve SQL security, database connector, and prepared statement problems when using FastAPI with Asynchronous PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy.

October 15, 2025

by Craig Oda

CORE

· 6,264 Views · 5 Likes

CNCF Triggers a Platform Parity Breakthrough for Arm64 and x86

Actuated plus Ampere-powered runners let CNCF maintainers test and ship Arm64 natively, closing the gap with x86 across CI/CD.

October 14, 2025

by Scott Fulton III

· 2,430 Views · 2 Likes

Efficiently Reading Large Excel Files (Over 1 Million Rows) Using the Open-Source Sjxlsx Java API

The primary objective of this article is to prevent the "out of memory-Java heap issue" when reading large Excel files using the open-source "sjxlsx" library.

October 9, 2025

by Mahendran Chinnaiah

· 7,410 Views · 7 Likes

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