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4 tactics for building robust open source DevOps toolsets
While using OSS is free, assembling an OSS DevOps toolset, with an average of 15 tools per company, isn’t without challenges.
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 their data warehouses and dat
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 a
Datastax acquires The Last Pickle
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 with
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 that lets the
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 the growing e
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 dr
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 to
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 years ago. That move undoubted
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 has released a version for N
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 <a target="_blank" href="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://l
Google’s Mod_Pagespeed Is Now Out Of Beta And Ready To Make Your Sites Faster
Google just released the first stable version of <a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/">mod_pagespeed</a>, the company's open-source Apache module that can automatically opti
Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol
<a target="_blank" href="http://cloudflare.com">CloudFlare</a>, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google's
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 every Windows user is accustomed. The onl
Developers Prefer GPL, Enterprises Prefer Apache
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gnu-apache.jpg" /><a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/08/potential-open-source-license-violations-in-android-and-ios-apps/">OpenLo
Apache httpd is fifteen years old
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/apache-feather.gif" />My buddy <a href="http://twitter.com/rbowen/status/9526901071">Rich tweeted</a> a terse message yesterday afternoon
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability
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We received a number of tips early this morning that the majority of
Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites
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A Russian security group has posted <a href="http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/infosecurity/703
A pony, for your Friday amusement
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mod_pony.jpg" alt="mod_pony" title="mod_pony" />Here's a little treat for all you Apache admins out there in The Internet: <a href="http: