Tag: Open source
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Code like a boss: Personal productivity for software engineers
Posted on September 24, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The most effective and successful software engineers have one thing in common—they're personal productivity pros! The engineering field has distractions, competing priorities, growing to-do lists, too many meetings, and other sneaky time thieves. By Alyssa Towns.
Tags programming open-source miscellaneous performance software
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Linux networking: Simplified guide to IP addresses and routing
Posted on September 23, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The article begins by explaining the basics of networking concepts, such as IP addresses and their formats. It covers the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as public and private IPs1. Subnet masks and gateways are also discussed, with subnet masks determining the network and host portions of an IP address, and gateways connecting local networks to external networks. By by George Whittaker.
Tags iot linux robotics servers open-source miscellaneous
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Top 5 Android app development fundamentals for beginners
Posted on September 2, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The cool features that come along with apps are what draw the interests of users. Apps make phones "smart" and through their benefits, apps have drastically transformed how we function today. Adept programmers are getting busy, designing, and building apps of their own and embedding them with favorable features. By Eshna Verma.
Tags open-source web-development app-development android
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IPv4 prices: Supply and demand in 2023
Posted on September 1, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
In early 2022 the discount that had been available for large blocks of IPv4 addresses disappeared. For the first time in years, /16 blocks and larger began to sell at an increasing premium. By Q2-2023, small and medium-sized blocks sold for a 30-35% discount to larger ones. By Lee Howard.
Tags open-source cio management miscellaneous cloud
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Shaping the future: Conversation with Jory Burson on the 2023 state of open standards
Posted on August 31, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Open standards are the hidden architecture that underpins everything from communication protocols to how our devices talk to one another. These standards provide a shared language that ensures compatibility and drives innovation. However, until recently, there was a significant gap in understanding the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of those involved in creating these vital tools. By The Linux Foundation.
Tags open-source cio management teams
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Lessons from maintainers of the world's most critical software
Posted on August 13, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
The article interviews maintainers of some of the world's most critical software, including the Linux kernel, the OpenBSD operating system, and the Apache HTTP Server. The maintainers share their insights on how to build and maintain successful open source projects. By The Linux Foundation.
Tags infosec servers learning open-source
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How to make engaging programming videos
Posted on July 4, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Programming videos have become an increasingly popular medium for sharing knowledge and helping the fellow developers on your team. Especially when you're working remotely, effective communication is vital, and screencasts have emerged as a powerful tool that meets this need. That's why knowing how to make programming videos is a valuable skill, no matter where you are in your career. By Philipp Acsany.
Tags open-source miscellaneous web-development programming
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PayPal open sources key-value store JunoDB
Posted on June 27, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
PayPal last month released the source code for JunoDB, a distributed key-value store it developed internally and which today powers a variety of backend services at the payment site, including 350 billion transaction requests per day, the company says. By Alex Woodie.
Tags open-source performance web-development app-development database
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Rails design patterns - the big picture
Posted on June 22, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A design pattern is a repeatable solution to solve common problems in a software design. When building apps with the Ruby on Rails framework, you will often face such issues, especially when working on big legacy applications where the architecture does not follow good software design principles. By Paweł Dąbrowski.
Tags web-development app-development cloud open-source
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A serverless query engine from spare parts
Posted on May 7, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An open-source implementation of a Data Lake with DuckDB and AWS Lambdas. In this post we will show how to build a simple end-to-end application in the cloud on a serverless infrastructure. The purpose is simple: we want to show that we can develop directly against the cloud while minimizing the cognitive overhead of designing and building infrastructure. By Ciro Greco.
Tags data-science streaming apis database serverless open-source
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How Grafana Labs uses and contributes to OpenCost, open source project for real-time cost monitoring in Kubernetes
Posted on February 10, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
While more and more teams are adopting Kubernetes as their standard container orchestration technology, cost insight is lacking. Teams often don't know how much they're spending, where in their organization they are spending, or what is driving their infrastructure cost increases. OpenCost helps alleviate this problem by bringing real-time cost monitoring to Kubernetes workloads with a solution that encompasses both an open specification and an open source project. By Mark Poko, JuanJo Ciarlante.
Tags cloud kubernetes devops performance open-source
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Kubernetes events: In-depth guide and examples
Posted on January 4, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Kubernetes events help you understand how Kubernetes resource decisions are made and they can be helpful for debugging. Learn more about k8s events in this in-depth guide. By Tyler Charboneau.
Tags apis devops app-development open-source streaming event-driven