Open source software has had a tremendous year, with big gains across the board, according to the latest Octoverse report from GitHub. The report, which was presented by GitHub’s Vice President of Developer Relations Martin Woodward at Universe 2022, explores the state of open source and the key trends shaping software development.
2022 has been a year full of new releases, new events, and new projects for Open Source Calico. Let’s take a look at Project Calico’s 2022 highlights and see if you’ve missed any exciting news.
A look at what Apache Arrow is, how it works, and some of the companies using it as a critical component in their architecture. Over the past few decades, leveraging big datasets required businesses to perform increasingly complex analysis. Advancements in query performance, analytics, and data storage are largely a result of greater access to memory. Demand, manufacturing process improvements, and technological advances all contributed to cheaper memory.
Git is an open-source version control system that is used to store code and web content in repositories. Git was designed to facilitate collaborative projects between developers. But leveraging the power of Git via the command line can be challenging to master, so many developers choose to use GUI clients to make using Git commands and actions more visual and simple.
Over the past two decades, adoption of open source software (OSS) among enterprises has become commonplace. In fact, because of the many advantages of open source, it is now almost impossible to find a business that does not rely on OSS. And with the proliferation of modern cloud native apps and microservices, this is only more true. Modern applications are built with open source, and you wouldn’t want to do it any other way.
Welcome to Open Source Matters, where we cover the latest developments in open source technology. In this special edition, we’re covering 5 open source projects you should consider contributing to in 2023. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson — now, in no particular order, let’s dive in!
