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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO

It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects. SAP’s manifesto is in reaction to the fact that all is not always sunshine and roses in the open source world.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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Fast, Cheap, Scalable: Open-Source LLM Inference with Spark NLP

John Snow Labs

Learn how the open-source Spark NLP library provides optimized and scalable LLM inference for high-volume text and image processing pipelines. We will show live code examples and benchmarks comparing Spark NLP’s performance and cost-effectiveness against both commercial APIs and other open-source solutions.

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AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool

TechCrunch

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success.

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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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Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

TechCrunch

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases.