Back in 2011, a controversial idea was brought to the table inside Facebook. Over the next seven years, it has turned the $178 billion data center computer hardware industry upside down. By open-sourcing its hardware via its Open Compute Project
Facebook is open sourcing Katran, the innovative load balancer that powers its platform and prevents it from crashing and burning. Katran offers a software-based approach to load balancing in combination with a reengineered forwarding plane that leverages two recent innovations
AV1 compression is finally here with a release from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) and its industry partners who are dominant players across the codec development, video encoding, delivery and playback ecosystem, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. AOMedia
MPEG founder and chairman, Leonardo Chiariglione, states on his blog that the current business model for MPEG is broken, writing a post “A crisis, the causes and a solution” in response to the “rumours spreading about a presumed ‘MPEG-video collapse’”.
According to a new survey from data Artisans interviewing Apache Flink users, the majority of surveyed businesses are planning on deploying more applications powered by Apache Flink software in the year ahead. Apache Flink is an open-source stream processing framework
Introduction to Open Source APMs: There are numerous open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools out there, which are a useful alternative to the paid tools on offer. Today, we’re going to look at four of the top open source
As companies grow, their workflows become more complex, comprising of many processes with intricate dependencies that require increased monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Without a clear sense of data lineage, accountability issues can arise and operational metadata can be lost. This
Founded in 2011, Redis is one of the most innovative companies around, encompassing both the open-source multipurpose database as well as Redis Enterprise, which enhances Redis Open Source with high availability, linear scaling, and deployment via public and private clouds, on-premises,
There’s no doubt that Netflix is at the top of their game, serving over 75 million global members. But the remarkable thing for the streaming industry is that they built the foundation of their site using open source code. This
Nginx, the young startup with a dozen employees is on mission to become the next Red Hat. It’s in the midst of creating a robust business model, sales model, value proposition, and pricing strategy. As a young company, Nginx is
The Apple CDN Team needs to decide whether to go the open source route, or build a caching platform from scratch. I’m sure Apple is currently using some form of caching software in their web environment. However, building a highly
Open source caching software is the engine the powers many CDNs. Without it, the CDN industry would most likely be smaller today. Free open source software enables startups to start small, and scale later. Fastly uses Varnish, Netflix & CloudFlare
