Getting started with Sandstorm, an open source web app platform
There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year’s resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an “out with the old, in with the new” attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s the third of my...
Faucet: An open source SDN controller for high-speed production networks
Thanks to open source software, we can now take control over and modify the behavior of almost every component in an IT system. We can modify everything from the networking stack in the kernel all the way down to web server code in user space to make improvements or implement new features. The final hurdle to having complete control over our hardware and software stack is the physical network hardware. These devices are usually built...
Comparing 3 open source databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite
In the world of modern enterprise technologies, open source software has firmly established itself as one of the biggest forces to reckon with. After all, some of the biggest technology developments have emerged because of the open source movement. read...
Vim plugins, automating deployment strategies with Ansible, getting started with Pelican, plus Linux, Joplin, Python, and more fresh reads
Last week articles on Vim, Ansible, Python, Joplin, and retro gaming with RetroPie were reader favorites, plus we rounded up a few of our most popular Linux and open source cheat sheets. Would you like to get started writing for Opensource.com in the new year? It’s easy. Drop us a note with your article idea and outline: open@opensource.com. read...
