Topic: open source
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Include
eBay’s newly open-sourced tool, Include, was built to make accessibility annotation easy, smooth, and simple, to ensure that accessibility is a core part of the design experience, rather than something crammed in later. The plugin was developed by members of the accessibility and design teams at eBay and is released for public use on Figma. … continue reading
Git 2.40 released with improvements to git jump tool and more
Among the many improvements in the new version, Git 2.40’s git jump tool which wraps other Git commands like git grep, and feeds their results into Vim’s quickfix list now contains support for Emacs in addition to Vim. ‘git jump’ now works with ‘diff’ in which the quickfix list is populated with the beginning of … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenXLA
Google has recently announced that the company will be making the OpenXLA Project available for use and contribution. This includes the XLA StableHLO and IREE repositories. OpenXLA is an open-source machine learning compiler ecosystem that allows developers to compile and enhance their models from ML frameworks in order to provide improved training and serving on … continue reading
Armory announces plugins for Spinnaker for faster and more secure continuous deployment
The continuous deployment company Armory today unveiled multiple plugins for Spinnaker, the open-source and multi-cloud continuous deployment tool, that are intended to offer Spinnaker users more speed and security. According to Armory, these plugins work to solve the technical and cost challenges that the Spinnaker platform presents when managing the number of accounts, configurations, credentials, … continue reading
Open-source software sees growth across the board
As the use of open-source software (OSS) continues its year-over-year growth, the biggest area for innovation and open-source adoption is now AI. But the growth of OSS is in every area, relied upon by companies for a wide range of business-critical applications, including data and database management, containers and container orchestration, and DevOps and SDLC … continue reading
Google announces Service Weaver for writing distributed applications
The team at Google has recently introduced Service Weaver, an open-source framework for building and deploying distributed applications that allows users to write apps as a modular monolith and deploy them as a set of microservices. Service Weaver is made up of two core pieces. The first is a set of programming libraries which allow … continue reading
How to ensure open-source longevity
Most code in existence today utilizes open-source components, but it’s important to remember where, and who, that open-source code comes from. Open-source software is mostly developed and maintained by volunteers. Unlike a company with resources to hire more developers, the maintainers of most open-source projects have to carry the burden of what comes after them. … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: APITable
APITable is an API-oriented visual database created to help developers build collaborative apps. The maintainers consider it to be “the best Airtable open-source alternative.” The platform provides an advanced technology stack, which allows multiple users to edit together in real-time or with the ‘Operational Transformation’ algorithm. It also includes a user-friendly database spreadsheet interface and … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prompt Engine
Microsoft’s prompt engine is a library for helping developers create prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs). Prompt engineering, a technique for enabling specific behavior out of LLMs like GPT-3 and Codex, involves crafting inputs that coax the model to produce certain kinds of outputs. Also, few-shot prompting is a discipline that provides examples of inputs … continue reading
2023 Call for Code has been announced, encouraging sustainable development
The 2023 Call for Code, a global program that invites developers around the world to contribute to open-source technology projects that address social and humanitarian issues, has recently been announced by creator David Clark, founding partner IBM, charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate the Linux Foundation. This year’s Call for Code is … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ToolJet
ToolJet is an open-source, low-code application development platform for building and deploying business applications. Users can use it to build complicated front ends without any experience in React, CSS, or event HTML. They can also drag and drop over 35 built-in UI components for more complicated frontends. With ToolJet, developers can also verify the current … continue reading
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Helios
HashiCorp announced that it is open-sourcing the design system used in the company’s product UIs called Helios. Helios was launched internally 6 months ago, and it enables product teams to create beautiful, consistent, and accessible user experiences and interfaces, all while being scalable and flexible. “The public launch of Helios is an active choice to … continue reading
