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Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development
Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.
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Building Kafka Event-Driven Applications with KafkaFlow
KafkaFlow, a .NET open-source project, simplifies Kafka-based event-driven app development with features like middleware for message processing, enhancing maintainability, customization potential, and allowing developers to prioritize business logic.
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In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
DuckDB is an open-source OLAP database for analytical data management that operates as an in-process database, avoiding data transfer overhead. Leveraging vectorized query processing and Morsel-Driven parallelism, the database optimizes performances and multi-core utilization for analytical data processing.
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Unleash the Power of Open Source Java Profilers: Comparing VisualVM, JMC, and async-profiler
This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.
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How Open Source is Contributing to Your Team’s Development: What Leaders Should Know
Today’s open source landscape plays a critical role in the developer journey and in business as well. This piece examines common barriers to contribution, how businesses benefit from open source, and what it may look like for businesses to help prioritize open source contribution among their employees.
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Discovering the Versatility of OpenEBS
OpenEBS provides storage for stateful applications running on Kubernetes, including dynamic local persistent volumes or replicated volumes using various "data engines". OpenEBS can address a wide range of applications, from casual testing and experimentation to high-performance production workloads
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Open-Source Testing: Why Bug Bounty Programs Should Be Embraced, Not Feared
The growing importance of the Web3 ecosystem based on blockchains shows how important community test programs are. Some within the testing community see this trend as a threat. However, it is actually an opportunity. Bug bounties and open-source test contributions are a great tool for test teams, and there is every reason for testers to embrace this new trend rather than to fear it.
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The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems
Being “free” and open source doesn’t hinder the value of these projects to businesses and end users; rather it unlocks it. The composability of open source ecosystems allows the innovation and value of the whole ecosystem to compound on itself.
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Embracing Cloud-Native for Apache DolphinScheduler with Kubernetes: a Case Study
This article shares how Apache DolphinScheduler was updated to use a more modern, cloud-native architecture. This includes moving to Kubernetes and integrating with Argo CD and Prometheus. This improves substantially the user experience of deploying, operating, and monitoring DolphinScheduler.
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What You Should Know before Deploying ML in Production
What should you know before deploying machine learning projects to production? There are four aspects of Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps, that everyone should be aware of first. These can help data scientists and engineers overcome limitations in the machine learning lifecycle and actually see them as opportunities.
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How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement
It takes many factors for an engineer to land a Staff+ position. In this article, you’ll find how contributing and engaging to open-source can help you sharpen critical Staff+ skills like writing communication, while helping increase your visibility and the odds of landing in such a position.
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Add Augmented Reality Effects to Android Apps Using the VrFace Library
In this article, we describe how to create augmented reality applications for Android using the open-source VrFace library. In the process, you will also learn about basic vision and ML techniques, including how to process camera frames using OpenCV and how to detect faces and facial feature points using appropriate models.