David Heinemeier Hansson

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. Before I get into the actual open source gifts we were able to share this year, though, I think it’s important to remark on the fact that 37signals is not an open-source software company.

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Open Source Software Review Systems Review Mobile 138

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Some companies offer generous training budgets or time off. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects. Lessons from open source.

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Tenable

JUNE 28, 2024

Check out why memory vulnerabilities are widespread in open source projects. In addition, find out why a majority of organizations grew their cyber budgets this year. The agencies analyzed 172 projects that the Open Source Security Foundation has identified as being critically important in the open source ecosystem.

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Security Open Source Chemicals Artificial Inteligence 124

Xebia

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

When it comes to Cloud Observability, several Open Source and proprietary tools have been available over the years. More sophisticated methods of detection, reporting, integrations… But what is the value of Open Source solutions on this topic? Customer support and available manuals/documentation (current, and on-request).

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

During his one hour forty minute-keynote, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud showcased updates around most of the companys offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , a new AI accelerator chip, new open source frameworks around agents, and updates to its data analytics, databases, and productivity tools and services among others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

It is difficult for any company to be both compliant and secure, and for startups with limited budget, time or security know-how, it’s especially challenging. Luckily, there are resources like Security 4 Startups that offer a free, open-source framework for startups to figure out what to do first.

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Agile Engine

APRIL 15, 2024

Open-source large language models (LLMs) have improved significantly in the past twelve months in terms of performance, developer experience, and community support. Let’s explore what advantages can make open-source LLMs a viable solution for your company in 2024. That’s where open-source LLMs come into play.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Open source: This is an expanding offering in the industry and enterprise architecture stack beyond software, with huge potential. enterprise architects help ensure that technology investments are optimized to deliver value without exceeding budget capex and opex constraints.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that their spending climbed by more than 30%. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53 billion in 2020. ” With the new financing secured ($15.6

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In Open source is one way CIOs can definitely keep the costs low,” he says, pointing out that open-source models are also transparent and can be customized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

“ Cyber security pros have used open-source vulnerability scanners like Nessus for almost two decades. This move shifts the economics of our market and will push CISOs and CIOs to dedicate more budget and resources not just on simple scan and prioritize paper pushing, but on driving actual remediation outcomes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These different databases have varying licensing mechanisms, including traditional, cloud, full open source, and commercial open source. Today companies are likely to have multiple databases that serve different functions or applications, and house different data. Expansion of license types.

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Open Source Energy Backup Enterprise 78

TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

We are open to accommodating any setup that works best for our clients and their mobile apps or web platforms. How do you assess their requirements, and what information do you need before you can share timelines and budgets? It’s all about balancing being adaptable while keeping an eye on the budget.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

After double-digit growth in the past two years, cybersecurity budgets expanded more modestly in 2023. 1 - Cybersecurity budgets grow, but less than in years past Cybersecurity teams on average saw an increase in their 2023 budgets, but the bump was much smaller than in previous years, as organizations across the board reined in IT spending.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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Organization Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Budget 207

Honeycomb

APRIL 23, 2025

Companies where software is a means to an end, or where the observability budget rolls up to IT or the CIO, are more likely to treat observability as a cost center. Is open source the future? I recently wrote the foreword to the upcoming OReilly book on Open Source Observability. People need options.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Crowdbotics prices based on the number of features in the application irrespective of the number of users … [and] lets developers work directly in open source software development frameworks like React Native and Django, and also lets CIOs set and enforce their own standards for development and security — generating readable code.”

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Open Source Software Development Enterprise Software 222

CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Most commercial enterprise software products and nearly all open-source ones depend upon numerous software packages and libraries. Many of these libraries are themselves open-source and depend upon other libraries in a complex network of opaque interdependencies. And how do you tell?

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Trends Malware ChatGPT Software Review 190

TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Whether you’re facing budget constraints, having problems sourcing and retaining talent or simply wanting to boost product iteration, focusing on increasing your engineering efficiencies will yield strong results for a long time to come. Datadog, Splunk, Athenian and open source DevLake are some tools that can help get you there.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

To find out, I analyzed more than 800 products from over 600 vendors using information from open sources, including Google, Gartner, CB Insights and startup/vendor lists from different sources. It’s no different in the cybersecurity space. These top-down product pitches are not just expensive – they’re ineffective.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 10, 2025

GritQL , the query engine for codebase analysis and transformation, will remain open source and available to the community. Looking ahead: building the future of observability Observability is not a nicheits a core concern and a budgeted priority for every serious engineering organization.

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Engineering Open Source Analysis Software Engineering 81

CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Our latest long-form look at a notable tech company examines Automattic, “the leading commercial complement to the open source WordPress publishing platform.”. Part 2: There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community (open source development).

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Many IT budgets are fixed, and saving time doesn’t automatically mean more money available to spend. Organizations typically start with a small number of users to assess where to deploy to more broadly, and even look at budgets beyond IT to allocate the cost of productivity improvements.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Can you deliver your applications on time and on budget? Meta’s Llama open-source LLM makes for a solid choice; enterprises such as Goldman Sachs, AT&T, and Accenture use Llama for customer service, code generation, and document reviews. What model(s) do you choose? What infrastructure do you run it on and where?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

” (For context, Prophet is an open source algorithm for generating time-series statistical models, which are often used to forecast events.). “Our price points slip below budget freezes and allow us to win deals against our competitors, who must price the cost of their sales teams,” Hu continued.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. Some backlash against the hype is likely, but gen AI will be a transformative technology in the long term, adds Hamza Tahir, CTO and co-founder of ZenML, an open-source MLOps startup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Every time I send your SaaS application a request, that authorization system has to be live to 100% availability, and it has to do its work in probably a millisecond of latency budget. ” The solution is built using the CNCF Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. Where should we be investing?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 4, 2025

You can also control its thinking budget by limiting the number of tokens it generates for the reasoning process. Codename Goose is a new open source framework for developing agentic AI applications. Alibaba has also open-sourced its inference framework, which the company claims is three to seven times faster.

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Artificial Inteligence Trends Open Source Linux 60

Tenable

OCTOBER 17, 2023

How can you maximize your shrinking OT security budgets? Looking for an open source tool that will help you assess multi-cloud security? Today, we’re talking: All about how to cope with cuts in ICS/OT security budgets. A new open source tool by Ermetic that helps you assess multi-cloud security.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While at Mozno, Evans had built open source tooling to help incidents run through resolution pipelines more efficiently, which sparked the idea for Incident.io. “[W] e’ve seen little impact so far from any budget reductions or cost-cutting measures from a sales perspective, but it’s early days.”

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2024

Companies eager to harness these benefits can leverage ready-made, budget-friendly models and customize them with proprietary business data to quickly tap into the power of AI. Additionally, connecting open-source solutions or foundation models to handpicked proprietary data with RAG can provide a shortcut to customized AI.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To replicate and scale this success, leading observability solution brings on four new executives including CMO Reet Mand, SVP of Global Revenue Jason Robinson, Director of Open Source Austin Parker, and Senior Director of Product Marketing Josh Pederson.

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Engineering Company Open Source Budget 134

TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Ameelio, which I covered back in 2020, replaced aging proprietary video calling systems in prisons with ones based on a modern open-source stack, saving money and making the whole operation simpler and better for everyone involved. To be clear, though, this isn’t some new drain on state budgets.

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Training Video Budget Education 206

TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

How do you assess their requirements, and what information do you need before you can share an estimated project timeline and budget? We need to understand the budget, project objectives, and timelines to help the client navigate the project and get it to fit their requirements.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? Fortunately, most organizations can build on publicly available proprietary or open-source models. Here is some guidance.

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