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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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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. Another key feature is support for lightweight query tests. These tests allow you to execute queries without the need to work with the HTTP endpoint.

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From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

Percona

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoder

The Netflix TechBlog

SVT-AV1: open-source AV1 encoder and decoder by Andrey Norkin , Joel Sole , Mariana Afonso , Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach , Anush Moorthy , Anne Aaron SVT-AV1 is an open-source AV1 codec implementation hosted on GitHub [link] under a BSD + patent license. It is not equal to the average of per sequence values.

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. At Netflix, we believe that the AV1 ecosystem would benefit from an alternative clean and efficient open-source encoder implementation.

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We’re going open source with Testsigma Community Edition

Testsigma

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Testsigma Community Edition , the first ever open source test automation platform that works out of the box for web and mobile apps, and APIs. This includes an integrated automation engine, test development and test runner modules, and some cool new customization features.