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Google Cloud launches BigLake, a new cross-platform data storage engine
At its Cloud Data Summit, Google today announced the preview launch of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in…
Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C
The once scrappy company is scrappy no more and poised to build new features around what it’s already done with Airflow.
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS
In many industries, Databricks has become synonymous with modern data warehousing and data lakes. Since it’s exactly these technologies that are at the core of what modern businesses are doing…
Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up…
Google brings Cloud Dataproc to Kubernetes
Cloud Dataproc is probably one of the lesser-known products in Google Cloud’s portfolio, but it’s a powerful tool for data wranglers who are looking for a fully managed cloud service…
How open-source software took over the world
It was just five years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source as a business model. Fast-forward to today and we’ve witnessed…
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Why Oath keeps Tumblring
I dig on my employer Oath, and then Tencent Music notes and a major loss for the NYC ecosystem and what it means for open source. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the author (Danny at danny@techcrunch.com) if you like…
Microsoft bets on Apache Spark to power its big data and analytics services
Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company…
Google Donates Mod_Spdy To The Apache Foundation
With mod_spdy, Google brought its SPDY protocol, which by now forms the basis of the next version of HTTP, to the popular and open-source Apache web server more than two…
Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta
Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group…
Open Source Search Engine Apache Lucene/Solr Gets Big Update
Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier…
Google’s Mod_Pagespeed Is Now Out Of Beta And Ready To Make Your Sites Faster
Google just released the first stable version of mod_pagespeed, the company’s open-source Apache module that can automatically optimize your web pages to improve download and rendering speeds. With this release,…
Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol
CloudFlare, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google’s SPDY protocol on its network. For the…
LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org: One Year After the Schism
When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which…
OpenLogic, makers of open source license compliance scanning software, have released some stats about open source license proliferation and popularity and it makes for some interesting reading. The big takeaway…
My buddy Rich tweeted a terse message yesterday afternoon: “Happy Birthday Apache Web Server, started 15 years ago today!” I had meant to write up the story then, but forgot…
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability
We received a number of tips early this morning that the majority of web servers at Twitter was exposing server and load-balancer status information to the public. The status page,…
Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites
A Russian security group has posted a detailed blog post (translation here) about how they managed to extract the source code to over 3,300 websites. The group found that some…
Here’s a little treat for all you Apache admins out there in The Internet: mod_pony. It produces an ASCII art representation of a pony. It would be grand to see…