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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. Their initial development was mainly focused on building Platform as a Service, soon MongoDB came out as the open-source server that was very well- maintained by the organization. Mongo is a word that is derived from the Humongous.

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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.

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Saleor scores $2.5M seed round for its ‘headless’ e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

. “Saleor was born of necessity when our agency work at Mirumee Software required more modular, flexible and scalable e-commerce software,” Saleor co-founder Mirek Mencel recalls. By 2016, the product had grown from something Mencel and Zawadzki’s agency used internally into a platform used by developers around the world.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

Let’s look at a broader range of (somewhat randomly selected) open source projects: It looks like Git is somewhat of an outlier here. The aggregate model doesn’t necessarily have super strong predictive power – it’s hard to point to a arbitrary open source project and expect half of it to be gone 3.33 years later.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 5, 2016. The microservices trend is becoming impossible to ignore,” I wrote in 2016. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. Since 2016, many additional open source projects have been started to support microservices built in JEE.

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EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps

TechCrunch

Driven by a lack of scalability with legacy solutions, they’re looking for modern systems — including cloud-based systems — that support scaling while reducing costs and accelerating development. . Unsurprisingly, companies are increasingly embracing alternatives to relational databases, like NoSQL.