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Orkes forks Conductor as Netflix abandons the open-source project

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Netflix today announced that it is discontinuing its support for Conductor, a popular orchestration engine for microservices the streaming giant open-sourced in 2016. All rights reserved.

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After spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1, open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20M

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NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic acquires DARPA-backed firm behind open source robotics software

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Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). OSRC launched in September 2016 and together with OSRF became known as Open Robotics.

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With $8M seed, Onehouse builds open source data lakehouse, eyes managed service

TechCrunch

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. In 2016, he came up with the idea to combine the two concepts to give him scale and speed. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

The company, which currently is hosted by another nonprofit Adida declined to name in a conversation after the event that eventually will become its own 501(c)3 , has one goal: to build a secure, affordable, open-source voting machine for use in general, public elections. The market would actually like to solve this, right?”

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Distributed Postgres goes full open source with Citus: why, what & how

The Citus Data

A few months ago we made Citus fully open source. Contrary to folks who say that Postgres is a monolith that can’t scale—Postgres in fact has a fully open source solution for distributed scale, one that’s also native to Postgres. Why make the final pieces of Citus open source now? It’s called Citus !

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.