This article introduces Notepad Next, an open‑source, cross‑platform Notepad++ replacement built with Qt5, outlines its key features such as folder workspaces, macro support, and language syntax highlighting, and provides Linux installation instructions via Flatpak or AppImage.
This article examines the importance, definitions, classifications, and technological evolution of distributed databases in China, outlines major architecture routes such as sharding middleware, shared‑storage and decentralized models, discusses HTAP and cloud‑native trends, and summarizes future directions including open‑source ecosystems and industry support.
The article analyzes Hadoop’s declining relevance, the dominance of CDH/HDP, security pressures from vulnerabilities, and outlines ten technical steps—including hardware adaptation, component selection, dependency resolution, compilation, Ambari integration, packaging, testing, and functional verification—required to create a domestic ARM‑based Hadoop distribution, which the authors have released as a free HDP 3.3.1 build.
BitSail, ByteDance’s open‑source data integration engine built on Flink, has evolved through three major versions to support batch, streaming and CDC modes, handling over 200,000 daily tasks across 20+ data sources, and aims to meet real‑time, cloud‑native integration demands.
Chrome 107 Enables HEVC Hardware Decoding: Impact and Contributions from ByteDance Engineer, enabling lower deployment costs, better user experience for high‑resolution video, and detailing the developer’s journey, challenges, and future plans across platforms.
A viral screenshot reveals a paid version of Microsoft’s free VS Code editor that uses deceptive pricing, a fake Google link, and questionable licensing, prompting an analysis of whether repackaging the official executable violates the MIT license and copyright.
Linus Torvalds warns kernel developers against waiting until the last days of the two‑week merge window to submit patches for Linux 6.0, urging early preparation to reduce review pressure and improve code quality.
This article introduces fifteen of the most useful Python packages—ranging from data visualization and game development to HTTP requests and home automation—explaining their core features, typical use cases, and why they are valuable tools for Python programmers.
This article introduces seventeen useful Vue3 UI component libraries—covering both web and mobile solutions—detailing each library's main features, design philosophy, and official website links to help developers quickly choose suitable components for their projects.
The article explains MySQL's continued dominance in the database market, presents recent developer survey statistics, describes its three‑layer logical architecture, and introduces the new edition of the "High Performance MySQL" book as a guide for modern database professionals.
This article introduces five popular open‑source network monitoring solutions—Cacti, Nagios Core, Icinga 2, Zabbix, and Prometheus—explaining their main features, data collection methods, platform support, and typical use cases to help administrators choose the right tool for reliable system oversight.
The article explains how modern Linux distributions offer a graphical interface, robust development tools, efficient command‑line workflows, and numerous practical advantages that make them a compelling, customizable, and often faster alternative to Windows for everyday and professional use.
This weekly newsletter curates top community tech shares, featuring MySQL 8.0 updates, database localization insights, concurrency consistency strategies, a new SQL auditing tool release, development progress, upcoming plans, and invites community feedback on DBLE, DTLE, SQLE, and TXLE middleware.
In 2022 Ant Group announced the open‑source privacy‑computing framework “YinYu”, launched OceanBase 4.0 with a single‑node distributed architecture, earned multiple AI and security awards, released AI risk‑detection platforms, open‑sourced the high‑performance graph database TuGraph, and published several papers at top AI conferences, showcasing its broad innovations across privacy, AI, and data infrastructure.
This article reviews the most effective Linux antivirus solutions, explains why antivirus protection is still needed on Linux servers despite the platform's inherent security, and provides detailed descriptions of each tool along with installation guidance and usage tips.
This article introduces ten open‑source command‑line utilities that replace traditional Linux commands like ls, cd, and ps, offering richer features, colorful output, cross‑platform support, and improved usability for developers and system administrators.
This article explores the open‑source lakehouse trend, outlines the architectural features of Volcano Engine EMR, examines key challenges of building enterprise‑grade data lakehouses, and presents best‑practice case studies demonstrating how EMR enables scalable, real‑time analytics, storage‑compute separation, and seamless integration with modern big‑data engines.
GameSentry, an open‑source tool from NetEase Yidun, streamlines game security testing by analyzing protocols, function logic, memory, and code hot‑updates, offering detailed risk categories, testing steps, and advantages that lower the barrier for developers to detect vulnerabilities before release.
Serverless Devs, an open‑source, CNCF‑sandbox serverless development platform, offers a plug‑in architecture supporting multiple cloud providers, lifecycle management, and extensible components, with six key advantages, a clear design philosophy, a growing history, and future plans to expand cloud vendor support and tooling.
This article examines the challenges of achieving view‑level background blur on Android, compares four implementation strategies—including open‑source libraries and custom AOSP modifications—analyzes their performance, compatibility, and visual quality, and provides code examples and practical recommendations for developers.
Over more than ten years, Tencent evolved its big data infrastructure through three generations—from early Hadoop-based offline processing, to a hybrid real‑time Spark/Storm system, and finally to a self‑developed, open‑source machine‑learning platform—highlighting the shift from “borrowed” solutions to fully proprietary, AI‑ready architectures.
This article outlines nine key advantages of Python over Matlab—including cost, open‑source nature, growing community, broader functionality, cross‑platform support, dominance in machine learning, flexibility, diverse IDE options, and cleaner code—providing a comprehensive guide for anyone choosing a modeling tool.
This article introduces ten powerful Python libraries—including Awkward Array, Jupytext, Gradio, Hub, AugLy, Evidently, YOLOX, LightSeq, Greykite, and Jina/Finetuner—highlighting their key features, performance benefits, and where to find them, offering developers essential tools for data handling, model deployment, and AI research.
This article curates a selection of high‑quality open‑source repositories—including Awesome lists, freeCodeCamp, developer‑roadmap, Build‑Your‑Own‑X, Git‑ignore templates, System Design Primer, and Coding‑Interview‑University—to help developers quickly find valuable learning and reference material across many domains.
The TVP low‑code technology sharing event featured a heated debate on whether low‑code will dominate mainstream development over the next decade, complemented by a round‑table discussion on its applications, open‑source collaboration, and impact on developers and enterprises.
This guide walks readers through the complete process of joining an Apache top‑level project—using Apache Doris as an example—including reading the README, joining mailing lists and chat groups, finding a first‑issue, forking the repository, making code changes, submitting a pull request, and passing community review.
The article introduces Tencent's big‑data platform philosophy and overall architecture, detailing three generations of evolution from offline Hadoop‑based processing to real‑time Spark/Storm integration and finally AI‑driven machine‑learning platforms, while also highlighting the team, book publication, and a related giveaway event.
This article walks through the design and implementation of a flexible graph‑drawing tool, analyzing existing solutions, defining core components such as a graph model, DSL parser, layout engine, and rendering pipeline, and detailing a step‑by‑step proof‑of‑concept built with React, Konva, and TypeScript.
Microsoft has introduced a Markdown language server for VS Code, comprising an open‑source TypeScript library that offers Markdown processing utilities and a server built on that service, aiming to accelerate Markdown development and improve authoring efficiency.
This article explores the practicality of Linux by examining its graphical interface, development environment support, communication tools, ability to replace Windows, Android app compatibility, and the broader benefits of openness, efficiency, and customization that make it a compelling operating system choice.
In an interview, a senior engineer from China Merchants Bank explains why the bank embraced the open‑source KubeVela platform, how it fits their stringent financial‑industry requirements, and the practical steps they took to integrate and contribute to the cloud‑native ecosystem.
Alibaba Open Source Week 2022, held online from August 22‑24, offers a main forum and five specialized forums—Operating Systems, Databases, Cloud Native, Big Data & AI, and Terminal—featuring over 30 technical presentations by more than 40 global experts on open‑source ecosystem development, emerging technologies, and real‑world applications.
The TDengine Developer Conference in Beijing unveiled the open‑source, cloud‑native TDengine 3.0, detailing its revolutionary architecture that tackles high‑cardinality challenges, introduces RAFT‑based distribution, and showcases real‑world IoT and IT‑operations case studies where enterprises dramatically improved performance and reduced costs.
The article reviews recent developments in data‑lake table formats—Delta Lake 2.0, Iceberg, and Hudi—examining their features, benchmark results, and ecosystem impact, and then introduces Arctic, an open‑source streaming lakehouse service built on Iceberg that aims to bridge batch‑stream gaps for enterprises.
The article explains the “Fat Tiger effect”—how a single good or bad action by an open‑source project or its maintainer can dramatically swing community perception, illustrated with cases like Microsoft’s shift, Qt’s licensing change, and recent npm supply‑chain attacks, and offers a balanced view on evaluating open‑source software.
This article recounts a graduate student's step‑by‑step experience joining the CNCF Sealer project, detailing why the sandbox project attracted them, the challenges of early contributions, practical tips for navigating documentation, issues, pull requests, and community meetings, and how they eventually helped refactor the runtime module.
By exploring popular open-source codebases such as Chromium, Electron, Flutter, React, and Go, developers can deepen their understanding of software architecture, DevOps practices, cross-platform development, and essential programming principles, turning code reading into a powerful self-learning strategy.
CeresDB, a distributed high‑availability time‑series database originally built at Ant Group, is now open‑sourced with version 0.2.0, offering high‑throughput writes, multi‑dimensional queries, SQL support, compatibility with Prometheus and OpenTSDB, and a range of features targeting both monitoring and analytical workloads.
This article introduces Apache Doris 1.0, detailing its simplified architecture, high‑concurrency support, MPP execution engine, vectorized engine, memory‑controlled stability, multi‑source integration, upcoming lake‑house unification, storage‑compute separation, real‑time ingestion, and community growth.
This article chronicles Eric Gamma’s transition from IBM to Microsoft, the creation of the Monaco web editor, its evolution into the Monaco Workbench and ultimately VS Code, highlighting key technical choices such as Electron, TypeScript, the Language Server Protocol, open‑source strategy, and the product’s explosive growth to become a cornerstone of modern developer tooling.
In his keynote at the 2022 Open Atom Global Open Source Summit, He Zhengyu outlined Ant Group’s open‑source strategy, highlighting over 900 repositories and key projects such as OceanBase, SOFA Mesh, MOSN, BabaSSL, Occlum, and the upcoming TuGraph, emphasizing how open core infrastructure drives industry innovation and ecosystem growth.
This weekly newsletter curates top community technical shares covering MySQL 8.0.30 GA, master‑slave replication recovery, InnoDB parameters, Linux I/O optimization, two‑phase commit, Prometheus‑Grafana monitoring pitfalls, as well as the latest SQLE 1.2207.0 release, development progress, and upcoming plans.
This weekly roundup shares community and industry news, open‑source project updates, bug fixes, and upcoming plans for the DBLE distributed middleware, DTLE data‑transfer component, and SQLE SQL‑audit tool, along with links to detailed articles and recruitment notices.
This article introduces a curated set of open‑source cheat sheets covering programming languages, command‑line tools, and data‑processing resources, providing quick reference tables and code examples to boost developer productivity across Python, C++, Rust, JavaScript, Git, Linux, Kubernetes and more.
An extensive overview of the most influential open‑source projects—from web servers and big‑data frameworks to cloud platforms, operating systems, databases, development tools, and middleware—highlighting their key features, supported platforms, and real‑world adoption, based on Red Hat’s 2019 enterprise open‑source survey.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) identifies and tracks open‑source components across languages, matches them to vulnerability databases, and integrates risk detection into CI pipelines, helping organizations mitigate widespread flaws like Log4j2 while addressing challenges of diverse package formats, binary analysis, and accurate vulnerability correlation.
This article introduces Apache SeaTunnel's Examples module, compares SeaTunnel with DataX, explains its multi‑engine design, demonstrates Flink and Spark example implementations, and shares the speaker's experiences contributing to the open‑source community, providing practical guidance for big‑data integration projects.
This comprehensive guide walks you through why and how to start contributing to open‑source projects, from selecting suitable repositories and finding good first issues to forking, cloning, creating branches, committing, handling CI checks, resolving conflicts, and successfully submitting and merging your first Pull Request on GitHub.
The article introduces China’s newly launched OpenKylin desktop operating system developer platform, explains its open‑source community model, highlights the current landscape of domestic OSes, and underscores the security imperative of achieving autonomous control over core software amid foreign dominance.
This article introduces an open‑source, Java‑backed and Vue‑fronted online exam platform, detailing its student and admin features, mini‑program support, technology stack, deployment options, usage steps, architecture diagram, screenshots, and source code download links.
This article reviews the ten most popular vulnerability scanning tools, describing their key features, deployment options, and how they help identify and remediate security weaknesses across servers, networks, cloud and container environments.
The article examines Paul’s call to boycott 7‑Zip, criticizing its limited open‑source transparency, alleged security flaws, and the geopolitical motive behind the boycott, while also presenting counterarguments and alternative compression tools.
This article walks through a real Git‑induced failure, explains how to reproduce and diagnose the nested process loop, analyzes the underlying commit‑graph and alternates interactions, and then details step‑by‑step how to seek help and contribute a fix to the Git open‑source community.
In this interview, Apache Dubbo Committer and GSoC mentor Niu Xuewei shares his open‑source journey, contributions to Dubbo‑go and Kata Containers, experiences as a community contributor and mentor, and offers practical advice on code quality, time management, and the benefits of open‑source participation for students.
The article analyzes Wanli Database’s rise to the leader quadrant in the CCID “14th Five‑Year Plan” key‑application database market report, detailing its technical advancement, security credentials, distributed architecture, industry collaborations, and open‑source initiatives that underpin its competitive edge.
The article examines a recent call to boycott 7‑Zip, outlining three alleged shortcomings—limited open‑source transparency, unresolved security vulnerabilities, and the developer's nationality—while presenting community rebuttals and suggesting alternative compression tools.
This article describes Ant Group's merchant knowledge graph, covering its background, overall architecture, data sources, schema design, processing pipeline, cross‑graph fusion techniques, cognitive applications such as vector‑based recall, and the upcoming open‑source and SDK initiatives aimed at sharing the knowledge and tools with the community.
After years of using VS Code, the author explains why they are moving to the fully open‑source VS Codium, detailing the licensing differences, proprietary extensions, telemetry concerns, installation steps across platforms, and personal experience with extensions and performance.
Notkia is a custom-built Linux smartphone that fits inside a repurposed Nokia 168x case, featuring a Ingenic X1000E processor, 64 MB RAM, 4 GB storage, multiple wireless interfaces, an IPS LCD, Yamaha audio chip, and plans for open‑source software and accessories after crowdfunding.
OpenCloudOS, the newly released domestic open‑source server operating system, offers a full‑chain Chinese supply of kernel and software, supports both x86_64 and arm64, and has already been deployed on over ten million machines across key industries, signaling a major shift in China’s OS ecosystem.
This article explains the concept and challenges of data lakes, describes the “impossible triangle” of storage, compute, and cost, and introduces the open‑source SPL engine that provides multi‑source, file‑based, high‑performance computing to overcome those limitations.
On June 16, 2022 the Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache Doris has graduated from the incubator to become a Top‑Level Project, highlighting its high‑performance MPP analytical database capabilities, broad industry adoption, and a vibrant open‑source community.
This article surveys the most useful and mature Vue open‑source projects—including CMS platforms, static site generators, e‑commerce storefronts, visual editors, UI component libraries, and development tools—highlighting their key features, community support, documentation quality, and contribution guidelines to help developers choose suitable tools.
SmartIDE v0.1.19 introduces workspace policy management and the VM‑Like Container (VMLC) feature, provides a private‑deployment guide for SmartIDE Server, announces its Gitee Most Valuable Open‑Source Project award, and details how these capabilities enhance cloud‑native development environments.
This article uses the 2021 Log4j vulnerability as a lens to explore the nature of open‑source software, its licensing, governance, security implications, and the benefits and responsibilities for individuals and enterprises participating in the open‑source world.
This article presents an overview of the Deep Graph Library (DGL), covering graph data and graph neural networks, DGL's advantages such as flexible APIs, operator fusion, large‑scale training support, its open‑source ecosystem, recent projects, performance comparisons, and future development plans.
The article explains that while VS Code uses an open‑core model with its core released under the MIT license, Microsoft adds proprietary telemetry and a locked‑down extension marketplace, prompting the author to adopt VS Codium—a completely open‑source, telemetry‑free fork—detailing its features, personal experience, and cross‑platform installation steps.
Alibaba’s DaTaobao team presented six CVPR 2022 papers—covering video restoration, real‑time image enhancement, human‑object interaction detection, indirect illumination modeling, editable NeRFs, and robust NeRF reconstruction—with all code and models open‑sourced, and invites viewers to a live stream for detailed walkthroughs.
This weekly community newsletter summarizes recent MySQL licensing research, bug fixes, open-source middleware updates for DBLE, DTLE, and SQLE, highlights new features, community Q&A, and upcoming plans, providing developers with concise technical insights and resource links.
This article introduces an open‑source distributed file system built with Spring Boot and Vue CLI, detailing its MIT licensing, UI layout, file operations, multiple upload methods, online preview and editing capabilities, storage options, and the underlying backend and frontend technologies.
Facing soaring business scale, G Bank adopted Zabbix open-source monitoring to cut costs and boost automation, detailing its multi-layer architecture, support for open-source and Xinchuang platforms, diverse data collection methods, alert strategies, and extensive automation that now cover head-office and 39 branch sites.
The HC Community Property Management System, launched by the java110 team in April 2017, is an open‑source, front‑end/back‑end separated, distributed Java project that includes backend, frontend, owner‑mobile, and property‑mobile modules, with detailed development tools, hardware/software requirements, microservice structure, and deployment instructions.
This article highlights Ant Group’s recent technical achievements—including green carbon‑reduction scheduling, the AntDTX trusted privacy sandbox for mobile anti‑fraud, the open‑source YinYu privacy‑computing platform, the OceanBase database competition, and the Space5D security parallel‑slice architecture—showcasing their impact on sustainability, security, and open‑source collaboration.
The article explains why Oracle can release MySQL under a dual GPLv2/commercial licensing model, how the GPL works, the impossibility of changing licenses for existing versions, and proposes creating a domestically controlled GPL‑v2 MySQL fork to avoid future licensing risks.
The article analyzes the rising threat of open‑source components, explains Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and SBOM generation, outlines the three‑stage process for building an in‑house SCA capability, discusses practical challenges such as data quality and integration, and looks ahead to future standards and open‑source tools.
This article explains how Tencent created the open‑source TDesign system, its multi‑team organization, rule‑based governance, tooling, GitHub automation, documentation strategy, and contributor incentives, showing how a large‑scale design system can stay consistent while evolving across many technology stacks.
This article surveys the origins and impact of four foundational Linux distributions—Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, and Arch—detailing their histories, design philosophies, key milestones, and lasting contributions to the open‑source ecosystem.
This article lists the ten most popular Microsoft‑maintained open‑source repositories on GitHub, ordered by descending star count, and provides each project's primary language, star metrics, brief description, and a link to its source code.
The article examines the lack of maintenance for the newly merged NTFS3 Linux driver, discusses Linus Torvalds' invitation for new maintainers, and outlines recent community efforts to keep the driver functional and up‑to‑date.
The author, a front‑end developer maintaining an MIT‑licensed Vue3 component library, shares personal experiences and practical advice on how to respectfully participate in and use open‑source projects, emphasizing mindset, proper issue handling, contribution etiquette, and community collaboration.
This article lists the ten Microsoft‑maintained open‑source repositories on GitHub with the highest star counts as of May 9 2022, providing key statistics, primary programming languages, and concise official descriptions for each project.
This article lists the ten Microsoft‑maintained open‑source repositories with the highest GitHub star counts as of May 2022, providing key statistics, primary programming languages, brief descriptions, and repository links included for each project.
WantWords, an open‑source reverse dictionary from Tsinghua University, lets users input a description and receive matching words across Chinese and English, leveraging a multi‑channel model from a AAAI‑20 paper and offering customizable part‑of‑speech and rhyme options.
This article explores how RAD Basic aims to provide a 100% compatible, open‑source replacement for the abandoned Visual Basic 6, detailing its origins, current status, new features, goals, and how it compares to other VB‑compatible projects.
This article examines the relationship between open‑source licenses and patents through a real case of a GPL‑2.0 project, explains legal distinctions between copyright and patent rights, and offers practical guidance for developers on protecting their work and handling potential patent conflicts.
This weekly community newsletter curates the latest technical news and open‑source progress, covering MySQL and Mycat issues, a ClickHouse distributed DDL block case, a MySQL MDL lock analysis, the new SQLE release, and updates on DBLE, DTLE, and SQLE middleware projects.
This article lists and briefly describes ten popular open‑source admin dashboard UI frameworks, providing their GitHub star counts, repository links, core technologies, and screenshots to help developers choose a suitable free backend control panel for web projects.
Retool’s 2022 survey of 600 engineers reveals that open‑source code is now essential, developers copy hundreds of lines weekly, and major frustrations include testing, slow SQL, and lengthy code‑review delays, leaving engineers with only about ten hours of deep work each week.
kkFileView is a mature, open‑source Spring Boot project that provides comprehensive online preview for office, text, image, archive, multimedia, CAD and other file formats, offering both image‑based and PDF‑based rendering modes with simple REST APIs for cross‑language integration.
GitHub's suspension of Russian developer accounts has erased pull requests, issues, and comments from open‑source projects, leaving only raw commit history and raising serious concerns about data loss, transparency, and the impact on community trust.
Hare is a newly announced system programming language by Drew DeVault that combines a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime to target operating systems, system tools, compilers, and other high‑performance low‑level tasks, with C‑like syntax but greater simplicity.
The Apache Software Foundation announced new members, highlighting Xianzhe—an Apache ECharts PMC member who helped guide ECharts from Baidu donation through incubation to top‑level status and now serves on the Incubator PMC, supporting other projects and the Beijing local community while embracing her honor and responsibility.
Mullvad Privacy Companion, a free open‑source Firefox extension, centralizes privacy tools, disables WebRTC IP leaks, supports SOCKS5, and is being adapted for Chromium browsers, while still in testing and inviting user feedback via email.
This article reviews the open‑source 7‑Zip utility, covering its recent updates, cross‑platform support, key features such as high compression ratios and AES‑256 encryption, and provides step‑by‑step installation and command‑line usage instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The article examines how open‑source projects cope when their original creators die, exploring copyright inheritance, maintenance responsibilities, legal mechanisms like contributor license agreements, and real‑world examples such as Python, Ruby, Debian, web.py, and GitHub’s successor features, highlighting the need for planned succession.
This weekly roundup from the DBLE open‑source community shares the latest MySQL‑related news, feature releases, bug fixes, and upcoming plans for DBLE, DTLE, and SQLE, providing developers with concise technical updates and links to detailed articles.
The JD Retail Technical Salon held on April 8, 2022 brought together internal and external experts to share experiences on open‑source projects, cloud‑native messaging, frontend and backend frameworks, and compliance, fostering sustainable open‑source ecosystems and encouraging community participation across JD’s engineering teams.
The HTTPie project lost over 54,000 GitHub stars after its maintainer accidentally made the repository private, revealing shortcomings in GitHub's confirmation dialogs and backup policies, and prompting recommendations for better UI/UX and soft‑delete mechanisms to protect open‑source projects.
This article presents a comprehensive set of fifteen best‑practice guidelines—nine pre‑inclusion checks and six post‑inclusion usage rules—covering design review, code quality, automated testing, debugging, licensing, transitive dependencies, security, and upgrade strategies to ensure a robust and secure software supply chain.
This article explains the critical importance of managing software dependencies, outlines the risks of blindly using external packages, shares lessons from a Golang mob code‑review session, and provides practical guidelines for selecting, using, and monitoring dependencies in modern development.
