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Feb 21, 2021 · Big Data

GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Report: Data‑Driven Analysis of the Global Open‑Source Ecosystem

The GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Report, produced by X‑lab and multiple research institutions, analyzes 860 million event logs, 54.21 million active repositories and 14.54 million developers to reveal growth trends, activity metrics, regional distributions, project influence networks (OpenGalaxy), and monthly‑star highlights, offering actionable insights for open‑source governance and community management.

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GitHub 2020 Digital Insight Report: Data‑Driven Analysis of the Global Open‑Source Ecosystem
ITPUB
ITPUB
Feb 20, 2021 · Operations

How Perseverance’s Sky‑Crane and Ingenuity Drone Redefined Mars Exploration

The Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars using a sky‑crane system, carried the first open‑source Linux flight software and the Ingenuity helicopter powered by a Snapdragon 801 chip, and now begins a suite of scientific and technology‑demonstration missions while China’s Tianwen‑1 prepares its own landing.

IngenuityMarsOpen Source
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How Perseverance’s Sky‑Crane and Ingenuity Drone Redefined Mars Exploration
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Feb 19, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

How FastReID V1.0 Revolutionizes General Object Re‑Identification

FastReID, an open‑source PyTorch library from JD AI Research, offers a modular architecture, model distillation, automatic hyper‑parameter search, and multi‑task support, enabling efficient large‑scale object re‑identification across diverse applications such as security, retail, and smart infrastructure.

Open SourceRe-identificationhyperparameter optimization
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How FastReID V1.0 Revolutionizes General Object Re‑Identification
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Feb 18, 2021 · Backend Development

InfoSpider: Open‑Source Python Toolbox for Secure Personal Data Scraping and Analysis

InfoSpider is an open‑source Python‑based web‑scraping toolbox that securely aggregates personal data from over 24 sources—including email, e‑commerce, and social platforms—provides a GUI for easy operation, stores results in JSON, and offers basic visual analysis, making personal data integration and insight generation straightforward.

AutomationOpen SourcePython
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InfoSpider: Open‑Source Python Toolbox for Secure Personal Data Scraping and Analysis
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Feb 10, 2021 · Databases

Master DBeaver: Free Open‑Source Database Tool and Easy Installation Guide

This article introduces DBeaver, a free open‑source, cross‑platform database management tool that supports numerous databases via JDBC, outlines its rich features such as data editors, ER diagrams, import/export, and provides step‑by‑step installation instructions for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus tips for creating connections.

Data ManagementDatabase ToolsInstallation
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Master DBeaver: Free Open‑Source Database Tool and Easy Installation Guide
Architects Research Society
Architects Research Society
Feb 7, 2021 · Big Data

Open Source Data Quality Software – Curated List

This article presents a curated table of open‑source data‑quality tools, describing each project's purpose, programming language, documentation, popularity metrics and providing inclusion criteria for selecting suitable software across diverse data‑processing environments.

Open SourceSoftwaredata validation
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Open Source Data Quality Software – Curated List
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Alibaba Terminal Technology
Feb 7, 2021 · Game Development

What Makes Oasis Engine a Cutting‑Edge Web 3D Game Engine?

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Oasis Engine, detailing its component‑based architecture, TypeScript implementation, key features such as Transform, resource and shader systems, its stability and performance achievements, historical development phases, and future roadmap for cross‑platform and open‑source enhancements.

3D EngineComponent SystemOpen Source
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What Makes Oasis Engine a Cutting‑Edge Web 3D Game Engine?
Top Architect
Top Architect
Feb 7, 2021 · Backend Development

Introducing Netflix’s Open‑Source Domain Graph Service (DGS) Framework for Spring Boot

The article presents Netflix’s open‑source Domain Graph Service (DGS) framework, detailing its purpose, core features, schema‑first development approach, practical usage examples, integration with the GraphQL ecosystem, support for federation, modular architecture, distributed tracing, and how developers can get started with the project.

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Introducing Netflix’s Open‑Source Domain Graph Service (DGS) Framework for Spring Boot
Java Backend Technology
Java Backend Technology
Feb 2, 2021 · Mobile Development

Explore 20+ Open‑Source Clones of Popular Apps to Boost Your Development Skills

This article curates a collection of actively maintained high‑fidelity clone projects for popular apps—including WeChat, Zhihu, TikTok, Bilibili, Meituan, and more—showcasing the tech stacks (Flutter, Vue, React, Node.js, etc.), core features, screenshots, and direct GitHub links to help developers learn and build similar applications.

FlutterMobile DevelopmentOpen Source
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Explore 20+ Open‑Source Clones of Popular Apps to Boost Your Development Skills
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Feb 1, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Top AI, Cloud, and Blockchain Breakthroughs This Week

This week’s developer newsletter highlights Google’s new TReCS framework for text‑image translation, OpenAI’s massive 7,500‑node Kubernetes scaling for machine learning, Apache ECharts 5 release, WebRTC becoming an official standard, China’s autonomous "长安链" blockchain, JD’s open‑source FaceX‑Zoo toolkit, and two AAAI 2021 papers on graph diffusion traffic forecasting and label‑confusion‑enhanced text classification.

AIData visualizationOpen Source
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Top AI, Cloud, and Blockchain Breakthroughs This Week
ITPUB
ITPUB
Jan 31, 2021 · Fundamentals

How Linus Torvalds Built Linux: From Minix to a Global Open‑Source Kernel

This article traces Linus Torvalds' journey from studying operating systems with Minix to creating the Linux kernel, highlighting the technical choices, community dynamics, and historical factors that turned a personal project into the foundation of modern open‑source computing.

LinuxOpen SourceOperating Systems
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How Linus Torvalds Built Linux: From Minix to a Global Open‑Source Kernel
21CTO
21CTO
Jan 31, 2021 · Frontend Development

Top Tech Jobs, Browser PWA Shifts, and New Open‑Source Tools: What’s Trending?

This roundup highlights Glassdoor’s 2020 job ranking with Java developers leading, Firefox’s decision to drop desktop PWA support, Edge’s new enterprise PWA features, Google’s MicroDroid minimal Android project, Twitter’s open‑source iOS text‑editor API, and Apache Superset’s rise as a premier data‑visualization platform.

Data visualizationOpen SourcePWA
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Top Tech Jobs, Browser PWA Shifts, and New Open‑Source Tools: What’s Trending?
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Jan 26, 2021 · R&D Management

Recap of Didi Open Source Annual Conference 2021 – Highlights, Statistics, and Awarded Projects

At the 2021 Didi Open‑Source Summit, leaders highlighted 2020’s breakthroughs—including 63 released projects earning 72,000 GitHub stars, top‑five Chinese and global‑top‑100 rankings, major contributions such as the DELTA NLP donation and mask‑detection tool—while unveiling a dual‑cycle internal strategy, a new Didi Open‑Source Foundation, award‑winning projects like DoKit, and the company’s new Apache Software Foundation Silver Membership.

AwardCommunityDidiTech
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Recap of Didi Open Source Annual Conference 2021 – Highlights, Statistics, and Awarded Projects
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Jan 25, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Top Tech Highlights: AI Advances, Open‑Source Rankings, and New Hardware in Jan 2021

This weekly roundup covers ShardingSphere's top‑5 ranking among Chinese‑led open‑source projects, Taro's entry into the 2020 China Open‑Source TOP4, Raspberry Pi Pico's $4 launch, Visual Studio's native WSL 2 support, Elasticsearch's license shift, Facebook's AI for the visually impaired, JD's future‑tech whitepaper, an AAAI paper on modal‑free segmentation, and SimCLR applied to NLP pre‑training.

AIHardwareNLP
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Top Tech Highlights: AI Advances, Open‑Source Rankings, and New Hardware in Jan 2021
JD Retail Technology
JD Retail Technology
Jan 25, 2021 · Industry Insights

Why Taro Secured a Spot in China’s Top‑5 Open‑Source Projects in 2020

The 2020 China Open‑Source Annual Report highlights Taro’s rapid rise to the fourth‑ranked open‑source project, showcasing its cross‑platform capabilities, active community, industry collaborations, and extensive real‑world deployments that illustrate why it stands out among China’s top five projects.

ChinaFrontendIndustry Insight
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Why Taro Secured a Spot in China’s Top‑5 Open‑Source Projects in 2020
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Jan 21, 2021 · Fundamentals

What the 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report Reveals About China’s Coding Trends

The 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report shows a surge in code repositories, users and projects, highlights rapid growth of languages like Rust and Dart, underscores Java’s dominance, and details new community initiatives and features that reshaped China’s open‑source ecosystem last year.

2020 TrendsGiteeOpen Source
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What the 2020 Gitee Open‑Source Report Reveals About China’s Coding Trends
Open Source Linux
Open Source Linux
Jan 11, 2021 · Fundamentals

Linux vs Unix: Uncover the Key Differences and History

This article traces the origins of Unix and Linux, explains how Linux emerged as an open‑source clone of Unix, compares their licensing, portability, community support, and usage in data centers and devices, and highlights the key distinctions that set the two operating systems apart.

LinuxOpen SourceOperating Systems
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Linux vs Unix: Uncover the Key Differences and History
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 2, 2021 · Operations

Weekly Tech Highlights: JD Seckill Script, Btrfs Performance Regression, Linux on N64, MuZero AI, Ruby 3.0 Release and More

This weekly roundup covers a Chinese open‑source JD seckill script topping GitHub trends, a severe Btrfs slowdown in Linux 5.10, native Linux WeChat for UOS, Flash Player removal, Mi 11 kernel open‑source, Ruby 3.0 launch, record app‑store spending, Linux ported to Nintendo N64, DeepMind's MuZero AI, and Huawei's leading Linux‑5.10 contributions.

AIBtrfsOpen Source
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Weekly Tech Highlights: JD Seckill Script, Btrfs Performance Regression, Linux on N64, MuZero AI, Ruby 3.0 Release and More
Java Captain
Java Captain
Jan 2, 2021 · Backend Development

Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Open‑Source Netdisk System

This article introduces a lightweight, open‑source netdisk system built with a front‑end Vue.js interface and a back‑end micro‑service architecture using SpringBoot, Dubbo, Zookeeper, Redis, Solr, and FastDFS, detailing its deployment, technology stack, and core features for file management and integration.

Open SourceSpringBootVue.js
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Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Open‑Source Netdisk System
php Courses
php Courses
Dec 31, 2020 · Frontend Development

Five Free 2021 New Year Countdown Effect Source Codes

This article introduces five free, downloadable JavaScript/CSS3 countdown effect templates for the 2021 New Year, each with a brief description, preview image, and direct download link for developers to integrate into their web projects.

CountdownFrontendJavaScript
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Five Free 2021 New Year Countdown Effect Source Codes
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 31, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Paying for GitHub Stars Undermines Open‑Source Integrity

The article examines the growing practice of buying GitHub stars, explains why developers resort to it to boost job prospects, highlights how it conflicts with open‑source principles, recounts historical resistance and eventual embrace of open source by Microsoft, and urges the community to reject star‑buying schemes.

GitHubMicrosoftOpen Source
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Why Paying for GitHub Stars Undermines Open‑Source Integrity
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 30, 2020 · Fundamentals

FFmpeg’s 20‑Year Legacy: Powering Video Players and the ‘Shame Pillar’

Celebrating two decades of the open‑source FFmpeg project, this article explains how its multimedia decoding libraries underpin popular video players and major platforms, recounts the 2011 split that birthed Libav, discusses licensing obligations under LGPL/GPL, and reveals the infamous “shame pillar” list of software that ignored those rules.

FFmpegMultimediaOpen Source
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FFmpeg’s 20‑Year Legacy: Powering Video Players and the ‘Shame Pillar’
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Dec 23, 2020 · Fundamentals

How Linus Torvalds Built Linux: From Minix to a Monolithic Kernel

This article traces Linus Torvalds' journey from studying operating systems with Minix to creating the Linux monolithic kernel, highlighting the historical context, technical choices, community collaboration, GNU involvement, and the factors that propelled Linux to dominate modern computing.

Linus TorvaldsLinuxOpen Source
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How Linus Torvalds Built Linux: From Minix to a Monolithic Kernel
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 22, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How AI Can Unmask Pixelated Text: Inside the Depix Project

The article explains how the open‑source Depix tool uses AI to decode pixelated or censored text, outlines its algorithm based on De Bruijn sequences, provides usage instructions, and also highlights the related PULSE AI up‑sampling technique for restoring low‑resolution images.

AIDepixOpen Source
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How AI Can Unmask Pixelated Text: Inside the Depix Project
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Dec 21, 2020 · Frontend Development

Top 12 Open‑Source Vue Admin Dashboards You Should Explore

This article presents a curated collection of twelve popular open‑source Vue.js admin dashboard projects, providing their documentation URLs, live demo links, and license types so developers can quickly evaluate and adopt the right UI framework for their backend interfaces.

Frontend DevelopmentOpen SourceUI framework
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Top 12 Open‑Source Vue Admin Dashboards You Should Explore
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 21, 2020 · Fundamentals

RISC‑V Architecture: History, Advantages, and Emerging Applications

The article provides a comprehensive overview of the open‑source RISC‑V instruction set, its historical development, technical benefits such as modularity and a minimal instruction set, and its growing relevance across IoT, mobile, server, storage, AI, and security domains, while also discussing ecosystem challenges and industry initiatives.

CPU architectureIoTOpen Source
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RISC‑V Architecture: History, Advantages, and Emerging Applications
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Dec 21, 2020 · Industry Insights

How Tencent’s Open‑Source Strategy Shapes the Global Tech Community

Tencent’s open‑source alliance unveiled three new projects, highlighted a decade‑long open‑source roadmap, and outlined a dual internal‑external loop model that drives community collaboration, technology innovation, and commercial value across cloud, AI, blockchain, 5G and IoT.

Cloud NativeCommunityIndustry Insight
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How Tencent’s Open‑Source Strategy Shapes the Global Tech Community
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 19, 2020 · Backend Development

12 Must‑Know Open‑Source Python Frameworks for Web and Data Development

This article introduces twelve popular open‑source Python frameworks—including Django, Tornado, Twisted, Pulsar, Bottle, Diesel, NumPy, Scrapy, Cubes, Falcon, Web2py, and Zerorpc—detailing their key features, typical use cases, and providing direct project URLs for developers seeking robust solutions.

Open SourcePythondata-processing
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12 Must‑Know Open‑Source Python Frameworks for Web and Data Development
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Dec 18, 2020 · Backend Development

Super-Jacoco: A One‑Stop Java Code Coverage Platform for Full and Differential Coverage

Super‑Jacoco is an open‑source, one‑stop Java coverage platform that extends JaCoCo with Git diff analysis to provide low‑overhead, non‑intrusive full‑run and incremental (diff) coverage for unit, functional, and environment tests, offering distributed scalability and HTML visual reports for easy insight.

Diff CoverageJaCoCoJava
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Super-Jacoco: A One‑Stop Java Code Coverage Platform for Full and Differential Coverage
Top Architect
Top Architect
Dec 18, 2020 · Frontend Development

A Curated List of Over 70 Open‑Source Projects from Baidu

This article presents a comprehensive catalog of more than seventy Baidu‑released open‑source projects, spanning front‑end UI libraries, data‑visualization tools, mobile frameworks, backend services, RPC frameworks, databases, AI platforms, and various development utilities for developers to explore and adopt.

BaiduJavaScriptOpen Source
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A Curated List of Over 70 Open‑Source Projects from Baidu
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Dec 17, 2020 · Big Data

Why GraphScope is Revolutionizing Large-Scale Graph Computing for AI and Big Data

GraphScope, an open‑source one‑stop platform from Alibaba DAMO Academy, unifies interactive queries, graph analytics, and graph learning on massive, rapidly evolving graphs, offering high‑performance distributed memory management, Gremlin optimization, and seamless Python integration to tackle real‑world AI and big‑data challenges.

Big DataDistributed SystemsOpen Source
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Why GraphScope is Revolutionizing Large-Scale Graph Computing for AI and Big Data
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Dec 11, 2020 · Big Data

My Journey and Contributions in the Apache Flink Community

The author shares his personal journey from first encountering Flink to becoming an Apache Flink Committer at ByteDance, detailing community involvement, code contributions, bug fixes, lessons learned, advice for newcomers, and concluding with promotional offers for Flink services.

Apache FlinkBlink PlannerOpen Source
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My Journey and Contributions in the Apache Flink Community
Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Dec 10, 2020 · Fundamentals

Linus Torvalds and the Birth of Linux: From Minix to a Global Open‑Source Kernel

The article chronicles Linus Torvalds' journey from a university student building a Unix‑compatible OS on a 386, through his creation of the monolithic Linux kernel, the historic debate with Tanenbaum over micro‑ versus macro‑kernels, and the myriad technical, community, and market forces that propelled Linux to worldwide dominance.

Linus TorvaldsLinuxOpen Source
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Linus Torvalds and the Birth of Linux: From Minix to a Global Open‑Source Kernel
Python Crawling & Data Mining
Python Crawling & Data Mining
Dec 9, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlock 3D Human Pose Capture with FrankMocap: A Powerful Open‑Source AI Tool

FrankMocap, an open‑source AI algorithm from Facebook AI Research and HKU, delivers simultaneous 3D full‑body and hand pose estimation from a single monocular video, runs at about 9.5 FPS on a RTX 2080, and includes easy installation steps, code examples, and links to its GitHub repository and paper.

3D pose estimationOpen SourcePython
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Unlock 3D Human Pose Capture with FrankMocap: A Powerful Open‑Source AI Tool
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Dec 9, 2020 · Fundamentals

How the Pandemic Reshaped GitHub: 2020 Trends and Future Predictions

The 2020 GitHub reports reveal how COVID‑19 accelerated open‑source growth, boosted developer activity worldwide, shifted contribution shares toward China and India, and set the stage for over 100 million users by 2025, highlighting major changes in the software development landscape.

2020 ReportCOVID-19 ImpactGitHub
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How the Pandemic Reshaped GitHub: 2020 Trends and Future Predictions
Didi Tech
Didi Tech
Dec 8, 2020 · Mobile Development

How Xiaoju Prism Transforms Mobile App Behavior Tracking, Replay, and Detection

This article introduces Xiaoju Prism, a mobile‑focused tool that offers zero‑intrusion instrumentation, comprehensive data visualization, command‑driven operation replay, and real‑time behavior detection, detailing its three‑part architecture, implementation strategies, platform support, and open‑source repository.

DSLDiDiPrismOpen Source
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How Xiaoju Prism Transforms Mobile App Behavior Tracking, Replay, and Detection
Top Architect
Top Architect
Dec 8, 2020 · Fundamentals

Linus Torvalds, the Father of Linux: History, Development, and Impact

This article recounts Linus Torvalds' journey from studying operating systems with Minix to creating the Linux kernel, explains the microkernel versus monolithic debate, and highlights the technical, community, and ecosystem factors that propelled Linux to become the dominant open‑source operating system.

Linus TorvaldsLinuxOS History
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Linus Torvalds, the Father of Linux: History, Development, and Impact
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Dec 6, 2020 · Fundamentals

Uncovering Python’s Origins: From ABC to a Global Powerhouse

This article traces Python’s history—from Guido van Rossum’s Dutch roots and the influence of ABC, through its 1991 birth, community‑driven growth, and design philosophy—to illustrate how open‑source collaboration shaped one of today’s most popular programming languages.

Guido van RossumOpen SourceProgramming Language History
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Uncovering Python’s Origins: From ABC to a Global Powerhouse
ITPUB
ITPUB
Dec 6, 2020 · Fundamentals

Top 7 Stunning Linux Distributions for a Beautiful Desktop Experience

Discover seven visually impressive Linux distributions—elementary OS, Deepin, Pop!_OS, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Zorin OS, and Nitrux—each described with its design focus, Ubuntu or Debian base, unique desktop environment, and official website for easy exploration.

LinuxOpen Sourcedesktop
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Top 7 Stunning Linux Distributions for a Beautiful Desktop Experience
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 5, 2020 · Backend Development

Inside Sentinel Go: Meet the New Committers and Their Open‑Source Journey

Sentinel Go, Alibaba’s open‑source traffic‑control library for microservices, recently celebrated its GA release and welcomed three new committers, who share how they discovered the project, contributed code, overcame challenges, and stay motivated to improve high‑availability flow protection in cloud‑native environments.

Cloud NativeContributor ExperienceFlow Control
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Inside Sentinel Go: Meet the New Committers and Their Open‑Source Journey
Architects' Tech Alliance
Architects' Tech Alliance
Dec 4, 2020 · Databases

Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL: Features, Advantages, and Use Cases

This article provides a detailed comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL, covering licensing, ACID compliance, SQL standard support, replication models, concurrency control, performance characteristics, high‑availability solutions, external data integration, storage engines, and overall strengths and weaknesses to help readers choose the most suitable open‑source database for their scenarios.

MySQLOpen SourcePostgreSQL
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Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL: Features, Advantages, and Use Cases
Alibaba Cloud Native
Alibaba Cloud Native
Dec 2, 2020 · Cloud Native

Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs: Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Trends

This interview explores the origins, team structure, real‑world deployments, open‑source components, and research directions of Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs platform, highlighting its multi‑cloud toolchain, advantages over existing solutions, and its impact on backend development and micro‑service architectures.

Alibaba CloudCloud NativeFaaS
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Inside Alibaba Cloud’s Serverless Devs: Architecture, Use Cases, and Future Trends
Code Ape Tech Column
Code Ape Tech Column
Dec 1, 2020 · Industry Insights

The Ultimate Developer Resource List: 100+ Must‑Visit Sites for Learning

This article compiles a comprehensive, categorized collection of over one hundred online tutorials, video courses, e‑books, official documentation, blog communities, open‑source platforms, and interview‑practice sites, each with a brief description and a personal recommendation rating, to help programmers continuously expand their knowledge.

Open Sourcedeveloper learninginterview practice
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The Ultimate Developer Resource List: 100+ Must‑Visit Sites for Learning
Python Programming Learning Circle
Python Programming Learning Circle
Dec 1, 2020 · Fundamentals

The Origin and Evolution of Python: From ABC to a Modern Programming Language

This article traces Python’s history from Guido van Rossum’s early work on the ABC language and the influence of C and shell scripting, through its 1991 release, community‑driven development, and the language’s design principles that have made it a widely adopted, extensible, open‑source language.

CommunityLanguage DesignOpen Source
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The Origin and Evolution of Python: From ABC to a Modern Programming Language
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Nov 30, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

This Week’s Top Tech News: AI Breakthroughs, Cloud PC Launch, and More

The latest developer newsletter highlights JD's new Explore research institute, Microsoft's Cloud PC preview, CNCF's etcd graduation, JD's AI-powered customer service brand, a CS‑1 AI supercomputer beating traditional supercomputers, PHP 8.0 release with JIT, curriculum learning for NLU, and advances in 3‑D object reconstruction.

AIOpen Sourcetech news
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This Week’s Top Tech News: AI Breakthroughs, Cloud PC Launch, and More
Laravel Tech Community
Laravel Tech Community
Nov 28, 2020 · Fundamentals

GCompris: An Open‑Source Educational Software for Children – Features, History, and Platform Support

GCompris is a free, open‑source educational suite for children aged 2‑10 that offers over 150 multilingual learning activities covering arithmetic, reading, science, geography and games, runs on low‑end hardware across Windows, Android, Linux and macOS, and celebrated its 20th anniversary with a major 1.0 release.

GComprisOpen Sourcechildren
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GCompris: An Open‑Source Educational Software for Children – Features, History, and Platform Support
Taobao Frontend Technology
Taobao Frontend Technology
Nov 26, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

How One Developer Turned Front‑End Coding into AI‑Powered Innovation

Rem, a former materials engineering student turned front‑end engineer, relentlessly contributes to open‑source, leads the AI‑focused Pipcook project, and shares his philosophy of breaking limits, bridging front‑end development with machine learning, and empowering developers through community‑driven innovation.

AIOpen SourcePipcook
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How One Developer Turned Front‑End Coding into AI‑Powered Innovation
php Courses
php Courses
Nov 24, 2020 · Backend Development

Curated List of Useful Open-Source PHP Projects

This article presents a curated collection of ten open‑source PHP projects—including a GitHub leak‑monitoring system, a high‑performance PHP extension, clean‑code examples, a Markdown parser, a cURL wrapper, a Swoole‑based music platform, a ThinkPHP e‑commerce suite, a self‑hosted RSS reader, a Laravel documentation manager, and a PHP interview Q&A repository—each with key features, usage snippets, and GitHub links for developers seeking robust backend tools.

GitHubOpen SourcePHP
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Curated List of Useful Open-Source PHP Projects
Suning Technology
Suning Technology
Nov 22, 2020 · Databases

How Suning Scaled PostgreSQL to 4,000+ Instances for Smart Retail

Suning’s 2020 PostgreSQL case study, presented at PostgresConf.CN & PGConf.Asia, details how the company deployed over 4,000 instances, leveraged Citus, JSON, PostGIS and roaringbitmap, and achieved cost savings and smart‑retail capabilities across billing, analytics, location search and user profiling.

CitusDatabase DeploymentOpen Source
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How Suning Scaled PostgreSQL to 4,000+ Instances for Smart Retail
58UXD
58UXD
Nov 16, 2020 · Game Development

Why Blender Is the Ultimate Free 3D Creation Suite for Creators

This article explores Blender’s open‑source origins, key advantages like cross‑platform support and comprehensive toolsets, guides beginners through installation and interface basics, showcases its capabilities from modeling to VFX, and offers practical tips for maximizing productivity in 3D projects.

3D modelingAnimationBlender
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Why Blender Is the Ultimate Free 3D Creation Suite for Creators
MaGe Linux Operations
MaGe Linux Operations
Nov 14, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Guido van Rossum Unretired to Join Microsoft: The Story Behind Python’s Creator

After retiring from Dropbox, Python’s creator Guido van Rossum announced he’s ending his retirement to join Microsoft’s developer division, aiming to improve Python’s performance across platforms, while the article also recounts his extensive career, awards, and the language’s origins from the ABC project.

Guido van RossumMicrosoftOpen Source
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Why Guido van Rossum Unretired to Join Microsoft: The Story Behind Python’s Creator
21CTO
21CTO
Nov 13, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Guido van Rossum’s Return to Microsoft Matters for Python’s Future

The article recounts how Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, retired, reflected on his next steps, and ultimately joined Microsoft’s developer team, highlighting the implications for Python’s evolution, cloud integration, and the broader open‑source ecosystem.

Guido van RossumMicrosoftOpen Source
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Why Guido van Rossum’s Return to Microsoft Matters for Python’s Future
Huawei Cloud Developer Alliance
Huawei Cloud Developer Alliance
Nov 12, 2020 · Operations

What Developers Want in 2020: Pandemic Shifts, Cloud Choices, and Emerging Tech

The 2020 Q3 Slashdata developer survey reveals how the pandemic reshaped work preferences, highlights the rise of JavaScript, Python and Kotlin, explains price‑driven cloud adoption decisions, outlines who practices DevOps, shows what developers value in open‑source projects, and spotlights emerging technologies such as AR/VR, edge computing and machine vision.

Open Sourcecloud adoptiondeveloper trends
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What Developers Want in 2020: Pandemic Shifts, Cloud Choices, and Emerging Tech
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Nov 9, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

What’s Driving This Week’s Tech Surge? AI, 5G, Raspberry Pi & More

This week’s tech roundup covers Python’s rise in the TIOBE rankings, a new 5G‑Industrial Internet security whitepaper, the affordable Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer, Apple’s upcoming Apple Silicon MacBooks, Snapdragon 875 specs, SpaceX’s GPS III launch, the Kornia differentiable vision library, and a novel sound‑event localization method using multi‑beamforming and multitask learning.

5GAIHardware
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What’s Driving This Week’s Tech Surge? AI, 5G, Raspberry Pi & More
IT Xianyu
IT Xianyu
Nov 6, 2020 · Frontend Development

Top Open‑Source Vue Admin Dashboard Projects

This article lists twelve popular open‑source Vue.js admin dashboard frameworks, providing their GitHub or Gitee repository links, documentation URLs, live demo sites, and license information for developers seeking ready‑made front‑end solutions.

Open SourceUIVue
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Top Open‑Source Vue Admin Dashboard Projects
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 5, 2020 · Databases

Inside MySQL InnoDB: My Interview Journey and Development Insights

The author recounts his 2012 MySQL interview experience, describes the global InnoDB team structure, outlines the bug‑fix and feature‑development workflow, lists key contributions such as spatial indexes and transparent encryption, and reflects on leaving Oracle for Tencent Cloud.

Database DevelopmentInnoDBInterview
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Inside MySQL InnoDB: My Interview Journey and Development Insights
ITPUB
ITPUB
Nov 3, 2020 · Databases

My MySQL InnoDB Journey: From Interview to Six Years of Core Development

The author recounts his 2012 MySQL interview experience, describes the flat, globally distributed InnoDB team structure, details the typical bug‑fix workflow, lists major InnoDB features he contributed to, and reflects on the lessons learned before moving to Tencent Cloud's database division.

Database DevelopmentInnoDBMySQL
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My MySQL InnoDB Journey: From Interview to Six Years of Core Development
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Oct 31, 2020 · Backend Development

How to Build a WeChat Mini‑Program Community Using Java SpringBoot & uni‑app

This article introduces the open‑source "netease‑cloud‑music‑community" project, outlines its key features such as login, posting, commenting, and likes, details the Java SpringBoot and uni‑app technology stacks, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for setting up both the backend and frontend environments.

JavaOpen SourceSpringBoot
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How to Build a WeChat Mini‑Program Community Using Java SpringBoot & uni‑app
Tencent Cloud Developer
Tencent Cloud Developer
Oct 28, 2020 · R&D Management

Understanding Open Source: Nature, Selection, and Developer Participation

The article explains open source’s core principles of openness, sharing, equality and collaboration, advises selecting projects with strong community and multi‑company backing, highlights China’s rapid growth in Apache projects, and encourages developers to contribute through code, documentation, translation and other community activities.

Apache FoundationOpen Atom FoundationOpen Source
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Understanding Open Source: Nature, Selection, and Developer Participation
Top Architect
Top Architect
Oct 28, 2020 · Operations

Top Open-Source API Management Tools and Platforms

This article presents a curated list of leading open‑source API management solutions, describing their key features such as rate limiting, authentication, analytics, developer portals, and deployment options to help developers and operations teams choose the most suitable tool for their API lifecycle needs.

API ManagementOpen SourceOperations
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Top Open-Source API Management Tools and Platforms
ITPUB
ITPUB
Oct 21, 2020 · Cloud Native

Top 11 Open-Source Docker Tools You Should Know

This article introduces eleven noteworthy open‑source Docker utilities—including spug, ctop, Drone, docui, docker‑slim, docker_practice, lazydocker, dive, gochat, docker‑dashboard, and diving—detailing their GitHub locations, star counts, primary features, and typical use cases for container management, monitoring, CI/CD, and image optimization.

Container ManagementDockerOpen Source
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Top 11 Open-Source Docker Tools You Should Know
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 19, 2020 · Information Security

Ensuring Security in Open Source Projects: Insights from Kata Containers and Community Practices

The article examines how open‑source projects can achieve robust security through organized vulnerability management teams, active collaboration with security researchers, and community‑driven initiatives, using Kata Containers and the broader cloud‑native ecosystem as illustrative examples.

Cloud NativeOpen SourceVulnerability Management
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Ensuring Security in Open Source Projects: Insights from Kata Containers and Community Practices
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Oct 15, 2020 · Cloud Native

Explore Cutting-Edge Cloud Native Innovations at COSCon'20: AI, Rust, Serverless, and More

COSCon'20 presents a rich lineup of talks covering AI microservices with Rust and WebAssembly, scalable cloud‑native application management, serverless rendering, HTTP/3 for IoT, cloud‑native trends, RocketMQ, CloudBase Framework, event mesh, Podman, Quarkus, Go microservices, Pulsar, Kubernetes stateful services, dubbogo, ElasticJob, Seata, SkyWalking on Kubernetes, and Spring on Azure, inviting developers to deepen their expertise in modern cloud‑native technologies.

AICloud NativeContainers
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Explore Cutting-Edge Cloud Native Innovations at COSCon'20: AI, Rust, Serverless, and More
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Oct 14, 2020 · Operations

Top 13 Essential Linux Tools for System Monitoring and Performance

This guide introduces thirteen practical Linux utilities—including Nethogs, IOZone, IOTop, IPtraf, IFTop, HTop, NMON, MultiTail, Fail2ban, Tmux, Agedu, NMap, and Httperf—covering their purpose, installation commands, key options, and example usage for effective system monitoring and troubleshooting.

LinuxOpen SourceSecurity
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Top 13 Essential Linux Tools for System Monitoring and Performance
FunTester
FunTester
Oct 13, 2020 · Operations

How to Build a Fixed‑QPS Load‑Testing Framework in Java

This article explains the design and implementation of a Java‑based fixed QPS load‑testing framework, covering its multithreaded base class, concurrent executor, compensation thread, performance metrics collection, and provides source code links for practical use and further development.

ConcurrencyJavaOpen Source
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How to Build a Fixed‑QPS Load‑Testing Framework in Java
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Oct 8, 2020 · Industry Insights

Explore Alibaba’s Top 29 Open‑Source Projects Shaping Modern Architecture

This article presents a curated list of 29 Alibaba open‑source projects—including Spring Cloud Alibaba, Ant Design, Druid, Fastjson, Dubbo, JStorm, Nacos, Sentinel, and many more—detailing their core purpose, key features, and GitHub repositories for developers seeking robust solutions across cloud, micro‑services, frontend, and data processing domains.

AlibabaCloud NativeFrontend
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Explore Alibaba’s Top 29 Open‑Source Projects Shaping Modern Architecture
Java Architect Essentials
Java Architect Essentials
Sep 29, 2020 · Frontend Development

Top 12 Open‑Source Vue Admin Templates You Should Try in 2024

This article compiles twelve open‑source Vue admin dashboard projects, providing their GitHub repositories, documentation links, live demo URLs, and license information so developers can quickly evaluate and adopt the most suitable frontend UI framework for their applications.

FrontendGitHubMIT
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Top 12 Open‑Source Vue Admin Templates You Should Try in 2024
21CTO
21CTO
Sep 26, 2020 · Frontend Development

From Anime Fan to Vue Pioneer: Evan You’s Journey and Front‑End Insights

The article chronicles Evan You’s unconventional path from art student and anime enthusiast to creator of the Vue framework, highlighting his motivations, the naming of Vue releases, community growth, funding model, and his advice for non‑CS developers in modern front‑end development.

Evan YouOpen SourceVue.js
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From Anime Fan to Vue Pioneer: Evan You’s Journey and Front‑End Insights
FunTester
FunTester
Sep 24, 2020 · Fundamentals

Why Small Pull Requests Boost Code Review Quality: Open‑Source Contribution Best Practices

The article shares practical guidelines for open‑source contributors, from using a concise GitHub address and submitting small pull requests to adopting polite communication, clear commit messages, a complete profile with an avatar, prompt issue responses, well‑structured bug reports, and a high‑quality README, all backed by research on review effectiveness.

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Why Small Pull Requests Boost Code Review Quality: Open‑Source Contribution Best Practices
DataFunTalk
DataFunTalk
Sep 23, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

PaddleOCR: 2020’s Outstanding Open‑Source OCR Suite with a 3.5 MB Ultra‑Light Model

PaddleOCR, the 2020 breakthrough in open‑source OCR, offers ultra‑light 3.5 MB multilingual models, high F1‑score performance across diverse scenarios, easy installation via pip, comprehensive documentation, custom training support, and deployment options for both server and mobile platforms, all backed by detailed benchmarks and code examples.

Model CompressionOCROpen Source
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PaddleOCR: 2020’s Outstanding Open‑Source OCR Suite with a 3.5 MB Ultra‑Light Model
JD Cloud Developers
JD Cloud Developers
Sep 21, 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

What’s Shaping Tech This Week? AI, Cloud, 5G, and More in Our New Audio Brief

This week’s tech roundup covers JD’s open‑source federated learning platform, a booming eSIM market, Nasdaq’s cloud migration plan, China’s 5G expansion, AI‑driven deep‑fake legal challenges, an underwater data center with low failure rates, IBM’s open‑source POWER core, a text‑controlled generation model, and a new visual‑dialog AI system.

5GAIOpen Source
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What’s Shaping Tech This Week? AI, Cloud, 5G, and More in Our New Audio Brief
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Sep 21, 2020 · Cloud Computing

Fangsheng Open Source Project Wins Awards at ODCC 2020 and Publishes Cloud Data Center Hardware Specification Standards

At the ODCC 2020 summit, Alibaba's Fangsheng open source project received the Excellent Project Award, released detailed server, cabinet, and power hardware specifications and corresponding test standards, showcased a compliant product prototype, and outlined future open‑source developments for cloud data center infrastructure.

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Fangsheng Open Source Project Wins Awards at ODCC 2020 and Publishes Cloud Data Center Hardware Specification Standards
Programmer DD
Programmer DD
Sep 17, 2020 · Big Data

5 Open‑Source Quant Trading Tools Every Developer Should Explore

Discover five open‑source stock‑trading utilities—funds, ZVT, QUANTAXIS, StockAnalysisSystem, and match‑trade—each offering real‑time data, backtesting, multi‑asset support, and high‑performance matching to help programmers build powerful quantitative finance applications.

Big DataOpen SourcePython
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5 Open‑Source Quant Trading Tools Every Developer Should Explore
Liangxu Linux
Liangxu Linux
Sep 15, 2020 · Operations

Deploy and Master Spug: An Open‑Source Visual Automation Ops Platform

This guide introduces Spug, a lightweight, agent‑less automation operations platform for small‑to‑medium enterprises, outlines its core features, lists installation prerequisites, provides step‑by‑step Docker installation commands, and demonstrates essential usage such as host management, batch execution, application deployment, configuration, monitoring, alerting, and system administration.

DockerOpen SourceOps Automation
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Deploy and Master Spug: An Open‑Source Visual Automation Ops Platform
macrozheng
macrozheng
Sep 14, 2020 · Backend Development

How the Mall Open‑Source E‑Commerce Project Grew to 40K Stars

The article chronicles the evolution of the open‑source Java e‑commerce project “mall”, detailing its rise from 20K to over 40K GitHub stars, the transition to microservices with Spring Cloud, deployment enhancements, auxiliary tools like Docker, Jenkins and MinIO, and future ecosystem plans.

JavaOpen SourceSpringBoot
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How the Mall Open‑Source E‑Commerce Project Grew to 40K Stars