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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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Sudhanshu Prajapati for FluxNinja

Jul 14 '23

Protecting PostgreSQL with Adaptive Rate Limiting

#opensource #database #performance #microservices

14 min read

Imam Ali Mustofa for WebX DAO

Jul 13 '23

The WebXGuild Chronicles - EP#00: A Journey of Codes and Connections

#devjournal #opensource #github #webdev

2 min read

Suni

Jul 13 '23

Canary Version Management

#git #github #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Gianluca

Jul 13 '23

Centralised Resource Display for Multiple Kubernetes Clusters

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #devops

7 min read

Shelender Kumar 🇵🇰

Jul 13 '23

The Advantages of Open Source Contributions: A Comprehensive Guide to Engaging with Apache AGE

#apacheage #postgressql #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Ilya Chistyakov

Jun 13 '23

VR-coding

#opensource #programming #python #unity3d

3 min read

toolkituse

Jul 12 '23

The toolkit-use npm package has added some shared utility methods

#npm #opensource #typescript #programming

5 min read

Jul 12 '23

Geographic data visualization and analysis with EOmaps: Interactive maps in python!

#python #datascience #visualization #opensource

7 min read

Zevi Reinitz for Livecycle

Jul 11 '23

Deploy Preview Environments to Any Kubernetes Cluster with Preevy

#kubernetes #devops #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Jul 12 '23

Retool vs PowerApps

#opensource #webdev #softwareengineering #lowcode

9 min read

Jul 12 '23

My Journey in Bitcoin Summer Code of Camp: Lessons Learned

#postgres #opensource #contributorswanted #tutorial

2 min read

AdityaPratapBhuyan

Jul 12 '23

Embrace the Power of Open-Source Cloud Offerings

#cloud #opensource

12 min read

Strift for Meilisearch

Jul 11 '23

Vector storage is coming to Meilisearch to empower search through AI

#search #machinelearning #database #opensource

4 min read

Jun 12 '23

Vue + Flask - Bloglite Application Source Code.

#webdev #opensource #javascript #programming

2 min read

Jonathan Reimer for crowd.dev

Jul 10 '23

Why is GitHub not open-source? with Zach Holman (ex GitHub & GitLab)

#opensource #developerled #marketing #growth

3 min read

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