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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Nov 15 '25

The Future is "Zero-Trust" Automation: An Introduction to Flowork.

#flowork #opensource #automation #python

8 min read

Ayooluwa Isaiah for Dash0

Nov 11 '25

From Zero to Pipeline: An OpenTelemetry Collector Guide

#opensource #opentelemetry #tutorial #devops

21 min read

Nov 10 '25

DocumentDB goes cloud-native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator

#kubernetes #opensource #database #mongodb

5 min read

Mrunmay

Dec 15 '25

How Deep Agents Actually Work: A Browsr Architecture Walkthrough

#ai #opensource #webdev #llm

4 min read

Nov 11 '25

Large File MCP: Handle Massive Files in Claude with Intelligent Chunking

#programming #tooling #opensource #llm

5 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12 '25

Logz.io vs Datadog (2025) - OpenSearch/Prometheus vs Proprietary

#monitoring #devops #opensource #tooling

7 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 14 '25

Nov14, 2025 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab

#ai #llm #genai #opensource

5 min read

Nov 12 '25

Code legacy: Analyzing Erlang's C and C++ modules that have been running for decades

#cpp #programming #erlang #opensource

21 min read

Dec 14 '25

Don't chase GSoC, Chase open source

#opensource #developer #gsoc #gsoc26

2 min read

ElshadHu

Dec 13 '25

Contributing to streamplace

#showdev #learning #go #opensource

3 min read

yohann streibel for Onepoint

Dec 15 '25

DevOps Rex 2025 : Retour sur deux jours de conférences

#devops #cloud #rex #opensource

5 min read

Dec 14 '25

I built a small Node.js tool to detect unhandled promises

#node #javascript #opensource #typescript

2 min read

İsa Sarıoğlan for Açıklab

Dec 4 '25

Liman MYS için Eklenti Geliştirme Ortamı Kurulum Rehberi

#vscode #opensource #limanmys

10 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12 '25

SigNoz - The Cost-Effective Datadog Alternative (And Why Others Don't Make the Cut)

#monitoring #opensource #tooling

12 min read

Danh Hoang Hieu Nghi

Dec 14 '25

How to make your 1st Open-source contribution to AWS Repo

#opensource #aws #communitybuilder

2 min read

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