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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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MindsDB Team for MindsDB

Nov 10

Fast‑Track Knowledge Bases: How to Build Semantic AI Search by Andriy Burkov

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

15 min read

Nov 15

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

#flowork #opensource #automation #python

8 min read

Ayooluwa Isaiah for Dash0

Nov 11

From Zero to Pipeline: An OpenTelemetry Collector Guide

#opensource #opentelemetry #tutorial #devops

21 min read

Nov 10

DocumentDB goes cloud-native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator

#kubernetes #opensource #database #mongodb

5 min read

Nov 11

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

#programming #tooling #opensource #llm

5 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12

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

#monitoring #devops #opensource #tooling

7 min read

Tongyi Lab

Nov 14

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

#ai #llm #genai #opensource

5 min read

Nov 12

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

#cpp #programming #erlang #opensource

21 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12

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

#monitoring #opensource #tooling

12 min read

Ankit Anand ✨ for SigNoz

Nov 12

10 Best Zabbix Alternatives in 2025 (Self-Hosted, Open Source, and SaaS)

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #tooling

11 min read

v. Splicer for Hidden Layer Media

Nov 12

remu.ii: Building the Ghost Before the Body

#discuss #esp32 #opensource #showdev

8 min read

Nov 12

How to Reduce Testing Costs with Open Source Automation Tools?

#opensource #testingtool #webdev #software

4 min read

Arkeno

Nov 12

🚀 Introducing ArkenoPlay: Let’s Build Together!

#opensource #developer #webdev #programming

2 min read

aelassas

Nov 12

Servy: Turn Any App into a Native Windows Service

#discuss #opensource #automation #devops

17 min read

Nov 9

The New YINI Homepage Is Live — A Modern, Human-Friendly Config Format

#config #programming #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mikuz

Nov 9

OpenTelemetry vs Prometheus: Choosing the Right Observability Approach

#opensource #tooling #devops #monitoring

3 min read

Nov 13

Parsley.Net

#opensource #fileparser #fixedlengthfile #csv

21 min read

Leandro R Lopez

Nov 13

The Code Vault

#ai #development #opensource #programming

2 min read

Oleksandra

Nov 20

My Open-Source Contribution - Working on TypeScript-ESLint

#opensource #tooling #typescript

2 min read

NocoBase

Nov 14

7 Best Self-Hosted AI Tools for Building Business Apps

#opensource #nocode #selfhosted #ai

8 min read

cz

Nov 11

2025 Complete Guide: In-Depth Analysis of ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking Multimodal AI Model

#llm #ai #opensource #machinelearning

12 min read

ZigRazor

Nov 12

Building a Social Network Analyzer with CXXGraph: From Friend Recommendations to Influence Detection

#cpp #graphs #algorithms #opensource

35 min read

Suraj Fale

Nov 11

Your New Command Line Co-Pilot: Mastering the Clipboard with Rust

#rust #opensource #github #project

5 min read

Mehdi

Nov 11

I Let Attackers Train My AI-powered Security Proxy (Here’s What Happened)

#ai #security #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Francisco Barrento

Nov 11

From Laravel Factories to Framework-Agnostic: Building the Data Factory Package

#laravel #php #testing #opensource

6 min read

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