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Apache Cassandra 4.0 Lands: Five Times Faster, Audit Logging and More
Apache Cassandra, the distributed NoSQL database, ranks highly in the "most dreaded" database category of Stack Overflow's annual developer survey.…
OpenChain ISO/IEC Submission Signals Fresh OSS Compliance Drive
The Linux Foundation's "Joint Development Foundation" (JDF) has won formal approval to submit open source software (OSS) projects for recognition…
Apache Kafka 2.5: Latest Release Brings Host of Welcome Updates
Apache Kafka -- arguably one of the open source software world's most significant projects from an enterprise perspective -- has…
7 of the World’s Top 10 Open Source Packages Come with This Warning
Of the world's top 10 most-used open source packages, seven are hosted on individual developer accounts, the Linux Foundation's Core…
We Need to Talk About Apache Camel
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) oversaw 339 projects in 2019 -- with a robust community of over 3,000 committers tweaking…
Why NGINX’s $670 Million Acquisition Matters
You may not have heard of NGINX (that's "engine-X", not "en-jinx"), the open source software company, but its importance arguably…
AWS Launches Managed Kafka: Is It “Strip Mining” Open Source?
Amazon's AWS has launched a managed version of the open source data streaming tool Apache Kafka. AWS described Apache Kafka…