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Another year, another $750,000 to Open Source maintainers

Jan 6, 2026 By Chad Whitacre In Sentry
Bored yet? 2025 was the fifth year in a row (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021) that Sentry gave a pretty hefty chunk of change to the maintainers of the Open Source software that we rely on and love. This is our first report since we launched the Open Source Pledge, which brings together companies that share our respect for the independent maintainers in the community. Pledge members have collectively paid $4.5M to Open Source maintainers and foundations since launch. No more excuses!
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Simplify Feature Flag Management with Harness FME and OpenFeature

Jan 5, 2026 By Austin Lai In Harness
Harness FME continues its investment in OpenFeature, building on our early support and adoption of the CNCF standard since 2022. Evaluate flags consistently across languages and environments, and integrate them seamlessly into your applications without modifying your code. Feature flags are table stakes for modern software development. They allow teams to ship features safely, test new functionality, and iterate quickly, all without re-deploying their applications.
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How to Download Kafka Certificates Securely

Dec 30, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
Learn how to securely download and manage Kafka certificates using Aiven for Apache Kafka. In this demo, we’ll walk you through locating your service certificates in the Aiven Console, downloading them safely, as well as using them to authenticate Kafka clients and ensure encrypted communication. We also cover best practices for certificate management to keep your data streaming infrastructure secure and compliant.
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Get Kafka-Nated Special Episode: A Kristmas Kafka

Dec 23, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
Join us for A Kristmas Kafka, an informal and deeply technical roundtable with Apache Kafka committers, contributors and community leaders. This conversation brings together the people closest to the Kafka codebase to reflect on where the project started, how it has evolved and what lies ahead for streaming systems.
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Free Versus Paid Monitoring Tools

Dec 19, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
Choosing the right monitoring strategy is critical in today's hybrid IT environments. This whitepaper explores open-source, commercial, and hybrid approaches through real-world scenarios, highlighting trade-offs in cost, flexibility, compliance, and operational efficiency. Learn how organizations of all sizes optimize observability, integrate legacy and cloud-native systems, and scale monitoring with confidence.
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Get Kafka-Nated, Bonus Episode: A tale of Kafka Past, Current, and Future

Dec 18, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
Join us for “A Kristmas Kafka,” an informal technical roundtable with Apache Kafka committers, contributors, and community leaders. We’re gathering the people who build and shape Kafka to explore where the project has been, where it is today, and where it’s heading next. No marketing, no product pitches—just a dense, technical conversation about architecture, innovation, and the future of streaming systems.
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From Zero to Open Source Contributor

Dec 18, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog
Never contributed to open source and feeling intimidated? Same. Before joining Datadog, Alessandro had zero open source experience. Now he's a regular contributor to Apache Iceberg. Here's exactly how he got started. Step 1: Join the Slack community and answer user questions. Step 2: Look for "good first issue" tags in the repo. Step 3: Remember that opening bug reports and doing code reviews count as contributions too.
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Aiven AI editor

Dec 18, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven
We dive into the game-changing Aiven AI Editor, a powerful tool that lets you interact with your data using natural language. No more syntax headaches. Instantly generate a visual map of your database to understand your tables and their relationships at a glance. Watch how easy it is to ask questions like "How many sales did we have in 2025?" and get perfectly formatted SQL queries in seconds.
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Leading Open Source Teams w/ Daniel Roe

Dec 16, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
In this episode, Daniel Roe, Lead Maintainer of the Nuxt framework, discusses his journey from studying law and theology to leading a major open-source framework. He explains Nuxt's unique governance and how Nuxt manages contributions through volunteer-driven work, LLM-powered issue triage, and creating welcoming spaces for newcomers to open source. This week, our chat touches on a variety of topics including.
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