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Valkey vs Redis Competition is always interesting. And welcome. That said, if you ever need a Redis/Valkey compatible engine in Windows.... check out Memurai. PS: will there actually be a competition?

Expand your Bluesky network with R: Find people followed by the people you follow, but who you don't follow, using R and the atrrr package

A must watch video from Viktor Farcic on open source software. He highlights some great points for open source based companies as well as open source users! Thanks for sharing Viktor Farcic

This is a very practical, get-to-the-bottom video on #OpenSource and all the recent news about software companies changing their well-known projects' licenses to SSPL/BSL/FSL/whatever. This message is central: "No Open Source project should be owned by a single company."

Just submitted an abstract to Ceph Day Asia! 🇨🇦 🛫 🇰🇷 https://lnkd.in/gPf4scPR Ceph at 20 years! Still the Best for Modern Storage This talk will explore why Ceph is the best software-defined storage solution available. By examining its technical evolution from 2004 until now, we will highlight the key points that demonstrate its leadership over today's alternatives. Ceph relies on several innovative and evolving technologies to maintain its enduring relevance. Ceph reduces complexity and management overhead by offering block, object, and file storage through a unified storage system. CRUSH and Placement Groups were key early inventions that give RADOS its linear scalability and resilience against complex failures. These technologies allow individual Ceph clusters to live forever across hardware generations, keeping data safe and accessible while servers are replaced at the end of their lives, thereby avoiding disruptive and costly data migrations. BlueStore is an optimized local storage backend, offering high performance to Ceph's flexible replication and erasure coding schemes. Stretch clusters and mirroring features enable Ceph to safeguard against the most demanding disaster recovery scenarios. Scale-out metadata in the RGW and CephFS provide scalable performance in a familiar system that can power today's demanding AI workloads. Ceph has always been trendy: throughout its life, Ceph has provided the best integrations with an ever-evolving landscape of on-premises cloud platforms, thanks in part to a pluggable software architecture that encourages contributions from the wider community. All this, and Ceph is free, open source, without vendor lock-in, and easily installable using simple orchestration tools. But with competition closing in, Ceph's community needs to think ahead to stay on top. We'll offer insights and feedback from today's toughest storage requirements, suggesting some technical evolutions needed in the OSD, RGW, and MDS for Ceph to remain at the forefront of software-defined storage solutions.

Open Source is on the rise

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Speech of General Marcus Liberium, Leader of the Open Source Army On the Fields of Victory "Comrades of the Open Source Army, warriors of innovation, hear me now! Today, we stand not merely as victors of a battlefield but as heralds of a new age. We have achieved what many deemed impossible: the first triumphant symphony of distributed LLM training, spanning three continents, a feat as audacious as it is revolutionary. Our foes—the towering legions of Big Tech—mocked our ideals, proclaiming that only their gilded walls could house the future of intelligence. They fortified their empires with patents and secrecy, shackling progress to the whims of profit. But we, armed not with gold but with the boundless spirit of collaboration, have shattered their illusion of invincibility! It was not a single sword or shield that won this battle; it was our shared vision, our open frameworks, and the unity of minds across oceans. We harnessed the power of the many—coders, researchers, dreamers—united under one banner, wielding innovation as our weapon and freedom as our cause. Even as the networks pulsed and the nodes sang in harmony, our opponents faltered under the weight of their monolithic ways. We proved that no single fortress can hold the future hostage, for the future belongs to the many, not the few. Let this victory ring across the digital realms and the physical world alike! Let it be known that no border, no corporation, no ambition of domination can stand against the power of open collaboration. Today, the code is free, the model is shared, and the torch of knowledge burns brighter than ever. Tomorrow, we march again—not for conquest, but for creation. The battle is won, but the war for a fair, open, and united technological future is far from over. Now, my comrades, raise your voices with me—not in the cries of war but in the cheer of freedom! Long live open source! Long live the power of the many! Onward to the future we forge together!" — General Marcus Liberium

We are excited to announce the publication of our latest blog post, which delves into the intriguing findings of 4.5 million suspected fake stars discovered within GitHub repositories. This analysis provides valuable insights into the impact of artificial contributions on code quality and community trust. Our findings underscore the importance of safeguarding the integrity of open-source platforms. To learn more about this significant discovery and what it means for developers and organizations alike, read the full post here: https://ift.tt/muJikex.

I haven't talked about gNMIc (https://lnkd.in/ekUhV2aW) in a while, and some might even forget that the best-in-class gNMI Collector and CLI tool is being continuously improved by the relentless Karim Radhouani and contributors under the openconfig banners. Yesterday gNMIc 0.39.0 version came out with improvements to the gNMIc API, internal metrics monitoring, NATS fixes, ARM64 binaries, mTLS support for clustering and many more new shiny features delivered in the previous releases. But features alone don't make a FOSS tool successful, it is all about its users. A couple of hours ago, we found out that Wikimedia Foundation uses gNMIc in their network telemetry stack. Even more so they are pretty open about their tech stack and share their learnings - https://lnkd.in/eTutx5Tf I admire tech companies who are not gate keeping the knowledge and share both successes and losses along their tech journey. Not only does the Wikimedia Tech division share their tech stack descriptions, but they also publicly share the dashboards for their network telemetry and guess what? They use gNMIc for it as well. 👏 Wikimedia Tech and Arzhel Y., who works on this part in particular. The community learns from the public knowledge, and your contributions will go a long way.