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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Our bar is higher than that.

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The Future of Open Source is Polarized

Percona

Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License ( BSL ). Commercial open source is going to continue being less open source.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. My point is that we were always going to use one of the open source solutions as a basis for our tool.

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Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot

The Netflix TechBlog

By Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan , Images by David Simmer , Edited by Greg Burrell Netflix has developed a Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework and it is now open source. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code. The DGS framework is built on standard open-source Spring Boot.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

Configurations such as dashboards, alerting rules and Service Level Objective definitions are left to be created separately, and often manually. The post Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Anything becomes harder to do at scale when it’s done manually.

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What is Open Source and why should you care

Percona Community

The term Open Source Software reminds me of Abraham Lincoln’s widely accepted definition of Democracy. Lincoln said, “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people” Similarly, Open Source is software of the community, by the community, and for the community.