Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka

 Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced…

NASA released a ton of software for free and here’s some you should try

 NASA has just published its 2017-2018 software catalog, which lists the many apps, code libraries and…

Google contributes its gRPC framework to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

 Google today announced that it is donating gRPC, its high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework, to…

FOSSA scores $2.2M to help developers manage open source licenses

 FOSSA wants to help developers manage the tricky terrain of open source license management, and today…

Encrypted chat app Wickr opens code for public review

 Security researchers have wanted a peek at Wickr’s code since the secure messaging app launched in 2012,…

IBM wants to bring machine learning to the mainframe

 IBM wants to bring machine learning to its traditional mainframe customers, and eventually to any technology with…

SnapRoute secures $25 million Series A investment for open source network OS

 SnapRoute, a startup that builds open source software that enables network engineers to customize commodity networking…

Google open-sources Chrome for iOS

 Google today announced that the code for Chrome for iOS is now part of its Chromium…