How can I call an external command in Python?
Learn how to harness Python’s power by triggering external processes and programs, and capture or routing the resulting output.
Open Source
Looking at open source projects and communities and how they are shaping the future of software.
Better collaboration through tooling
How free tools can ease collaboration and improve outcomes in open source Go projects.
Clair: Clarity with container security scanning
Learn about Clair, a new open source tool to monitor the security of containers and automatically detect vulnerabilities in Docker and rkt containers.
XenServer: Core architecture and critical components
Explore the core components that make up a production XenServer deployment.
Stop sweating the password and learn to love public key cryptography
Jerrod Chong explores the emerging FIDO U2F open standard and its elegant public key cryptography for two-factor authentication.
Exploring data with Pandas
Learn to use Pandas to explore a dataset looking for anything that could form the basis for an interesting visualization.
Using WatchKit apps
Learn about some of the fundamental watchOS elements, including interface controllers and the different types of controls.
Data storytelling using the GitHub archive
Alyson La walks you through pulling data using your preferred technology and shows how to turn insights into a meaningful story.
PANOPTES: Open source planet discovery
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than our sun. Until now, exoplanet discovery was the exclusive domain of professional scientists. PANOPTES, which combines inexpensive, off-the-shelf components with open source hardware and software to build a geographically dispersed array of small observing telescopes, brings exoplanet science to amateur astronomers and school students.
Open, closed, and demon haunted: An Internet of Things that act like inkjet printers
As the Internet of Things expands to include computers in our bodies and computers we put our bodies into, the question of open and closed takes on a new urgency.
Sustainability in open source
We've seen that collaborative development creates and innovates at speed and scale. How will we ensure that the open source communities that created these opportunities continue to grow?
Closing the loop: Open source community projects are changing health care
What happens when an open source community develops around a group of patients who are frustrated with their medical devices? You end up with an artificial pancreas, of course.
Hiring awesome engineers: Looking beyond the Valley and the USA
Erica Brescia explains how a bootcamp experiment has turned into a successful hiring channel for Bitnami.
2016 O’Reilly Open Source Awards
The O’Reilly Open Source Awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software.
Crossing the river by feeling the stones
Simon Wardley examines the issue of situational awareness and explains how it applies to the world of open source.
Keynote performance by Sammus
Rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter Sammus performs at OSCON in Austin 2016.
Huawei’s open source journey
Sanqi Li shares Huawei’s open source stories, including new developer and lab partnership programs.
The unreasonable effectiveness of open data, open source, and open science
Joseph Sirosh shares stories about the unreasonable effectiveness of open.
Incremental revolution: What Docker learned from the open source fire hose
Solomon Hykes explores the container ecosystem and shares lessons learned from managing successful open source projects.
Computer science artists unite! An open source retrospective to glimpse our future
Angel Diaz looks at open source projects that exemplify the concepts we’ll all need to accelerate innovation and success.
OSCON in Austin 2016 livestream
Watch keynotes from OSCON in Austin, Texas.
The case for a unified and interoperable open cloud ecosystem
Sam Ramji explains why a platform should come with the expectation of an open and transparent approach.
How did I “git” here? A tale of a CS professor
Kyla McMullen tells the story of how she went from taking apart NES systems and Speak & Spells as a child to earning a PhD and becoming a professor focusing on 3D spatial audio.
Making data analytics easier for data scientists, developers, and DevOps
Collaboration tools in the open-source Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) address the human side of data analytics.