Explainer: Open Source Software and Its Advantages
Open source software has been the origin of a huge range of widely-used products from Linux to WordPress but what is it exactly, and what advantages does it offer for software developers?
Open source software has been the origin of a huge range of widely-used products from Linux to WordPress but what is it exactly, and what advantages does it offer for software developers?
We are now well into 2022 and the megatrends that drove the last decade in data—The Apache Software Foundation as a primary innovation vehicle for big data, the arrival of cloud computing, and the debut of cheap distributed storage—have now converged and offer clear patterns for competitive advantage for vendors and value for customers.
For mobile teams looking to improve their mobile product delivery without building everything from scratch, here are the challenges and benefits of using open-source solutions for your mobile app.
This guide is designed to help contribute to Testsigma, an open-source tool that supports end-to-end testing for Web Apps, Mobile Apps, and APIs. Spoiler Alert: You don’t always need to be a programmer to make a contributor. There are many opportunities for coding as well as non-coding contributions. This article discusses all aspects necessary to contribute to Testsigma’s open-source project.
Ballerina is an open source programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine and create network services. In addition to the powerful language features, it comes with a rich standard library, which covers network data, messaging and communication protocols.
API Observability isn't exactly new, however it's popularity has seen rapid growth in the past few years in terms of popularity. API Observability using open source is different from regular API monitoring, as it allows you to get deeper and extract more valuable insights. Although it takes a bit more effort to set up, once you've got an observability infrastructure running it can be immensely helpful not only in catching errors and making debugging easier, but also in finding areas that can be optimized.
Today, the Envoy community has introduced Envoy Gateway, a new project to better support Kubernetes deployments via the new Kubernetes Gateway API, which is the next generation Ingress specification in Kubernetes world. Kong has been deeply invested in the success of Envoy since we started developing Kuma in 2019 – now used in Kong Mesh (built on top of Kuma).
Organizations worldwide are adopting open-source software to drive technological innovations. Testers look beyond the obvious benefit of cost while embracing open-source test automation tools. The reliability, transparency, flexibility are added benefits of choosing an open-source test automation tool. Saving time is saving money! Open-source tools save time reinventing the wheel to build your test automation framework from scratch.
Snowflake is proud to announce the open source release of SansShell, a non-interactive local host management agent. Its purpose is to enable strong authentication, authorization, and auditing of the management of servers of any type. The source code is available on GitHub.