20 years later, open source is as important as ever
Sarah Novotny outlines two reasons why open source continues to be important: choice and infrastructure.
Open Source
Looking at open source projects and communities and how they are shaping the future of software.
Building with open source at the world’s largest home improvement retailer
Angie Brown explains how Home Depot uses open source in its stores, online search, order management, analytics, and more.
Drive innovation and collaboration through open source projects
Ying Xiong explains how Huawei collaborates with industry leaders and innovates through open source projects.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Christopher Ferris says Hyperledger was formed to help deliver blockchain technology for the enterprise. Two and a half years later, that goal is being realized.
The next big wave
Zaheda Bhorat explores the next wave of open source contributions.
TensorFlow Day is coming to OSCON
Explore TensorFlow’s applications and its community on July 17 at TensorFlow Day at OSCON.
Vote for the OSCON 2018 Open Source Awards
Cast your vote for the top open source projects and communities through June 29.
Running a word count application using Spark
How to use Apache Spark’s Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) API.
We the people … are open source
Zaheda Bhorat talks about open source at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and takes you through highlights of her journey to AWS.
Why choose open infrastructure?
Source code management, CI pipelines, and IaaS have open alternatives, but most projects are developed on proprietary infrastructure. Christopher Aedo explains how to make open choices.
The power of the open source ecosystem
Ying Xiong discusses the fast-growing open source market in China.
Open source mistakes for enterprise newcomers
Take the lessons of open source and apply them across your processes, not just to development.
5 things to watch in Go programming in 2017
What will innovations like dynamic plugins, serverless Go, and HTTP/2 Push mean for your development this year?
What’s new in Swift 3
Learn about Swift’s most impactful and interesting new features, and explore Swift’s use on non-Apple platforms.
Open source 101
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
Open source in Brazil
Exploring the many trends in business, education, and government that have contributed to the current state of open source activity in Brazil.
Introducing Electrode, an open source release from @WalmartLabs
@WalmartLabs has transformed its Electrode application platform to React and Node.js, and the platform is now open sourced. Laurent Desegur discusses the problems the platform aims to solve.
How InnerSource is like FLOSSing
Danese Cooper explores InnerSource, the move to develop open source software within the walls of an organization.
A Whirlwind Tour of Python
Jake VanderPlas explains Python’s essential syntax and semantics, built-in data types and structures, function definitions, control flow statements, and more, using Python 3 syntax.
An inside look at OSCON
OSCON program chair Rachel Roumeliotis on what it takes to make OSCON happen and what to expect at OSCON in London.
What we take for granted: Examining the barriers to contributing to open source
Saron Yitbarek explains how socioeconomic status, location, education, and other factors affect the likelihood of being able to contribute to the open source community.
Let’s use Keystone!
Use this instructional tutorial to interact with Keystone and invoke its core operational capabilities.
Managing a large open source community with smart tools
Jonas Rosland and Stephanie Carlson outline a few of the smart tools they use—for chats, emails, community metrics, project management, and more—to tackle this big task and discuss failures, successes, and lessons learned in managing large open source communities.
How can I verify file existence in Python?
Learn to locate files using the os.path.isfile() function in Python.