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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Lorain

Jun 15 '23

GO: How to Write a Worker Pool

#go #opensource #programming #tutorial

11 min read

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Tomer Greenwald for Otterize

Jun 4 '23

Kubernetes traffic discovery

#devops #opensource #kubernetes #sre

12 min read

Jun 15 '23

The most interesting Open Source web applications

#discuss #opensource #webdev #devops

2 min read

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Brylie Christopher Oxley

Jun 15 '23

The Role of Software Engineers in Combatting Climate Change

#climate #science #opensource #career

10 min read

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Jun 15 '23

Celebrating 10,000+ Stars on GitHub with an Exciting Giveaway!

#github #giveaway #opensource #twitter

2 min read

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Suresh Hariharan

Jun 15 '23

Understanding "this" keyword in Javascript

#javascript #beginners #opensource #computerscience

3 min read

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Bap

Jun 14 '23

5 Surprising Benefits of Contributing to Open Source [Beginner Edition] 🚀

#beginners #opensource #career #github

3 min read

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Jun 14 '23

Best 7 Open-source projects built with Node.js / React.js

#javascript #react #opensource #node

3 min read

DASWU

Jun 15 '23

Experience the Power of JuiceFS 1.1 Beta: Smoother, Convenient, and Efficient

#opensource

7 min read

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Felix

Jun 15 '23

How does policy as code work

#aws #devops #opensource #policyascode

2 min read

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Bobur Umurzokov for Apache APISIX

Jun 14 '23

Custom Plugin Development For APISIX With Lua And ChatGPT

#webdev #chatgpt #ai #opensource

11 min read

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Jun 14 '23

Appsmith's Deployment Architecture

#docker #opensource #systemdesign

13 min read

StackFoss

Jun 21 '23

GPT Engineer: A Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Software Engineering

#news #opensource #stackfoss #chatgpt

2 min read

StackFoss

Jun 27 '23

Skateshop13: An Open Source E-Commerce Skateshop Built with Next.js 13

#ecommerce #stakeshop13 #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

Jun 13 '23

I turned my company’s PC into my own “Vercel-like” platform

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #diginext

3 min read

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