It’s that time of year again—where the days last longer, the sun comes out in full force and everyone flocks to the nearest watering hole to cool down and celebrate the season. That’s right, summertime is officially upon us and whether you’re staying local or jetting off on a tropical vacation, you need to start compiling a seasonal staple: a good summer reading list. Luckily, we’ve already got you covered.
We’ve gathered 10 of the best open source reads for your summer fun. Whether you’re chilling poolside, globetrotting on an international flight or soaking up rays on the beach, our summer reading list will carry you through the dog days of summer. Kick back, grab a drink with an umbrella in it and enjoy these 10 captivating open source reads.
Open Source Summer Reading List:
Is serverless technology overhyped? And if so, is that necessarily a bad thing? Three of our top open source minds at VMware dissect the role of serverless technology in the cloud-native arena and make the case for why now is the time to invest in serverless for the long haul.
Summertime means you can expect quite a few of the industry’s most prominent events (here’s looking at you, Open Source Summit and VMworld). But it’s conferences specifically geared toward women that open source change agent Meng Chow has found most insightful and inspiring. Read about her empowering experiences congregating with other women in tech and how they have motivated her to keep driving change.
Just because school’s out for the summer doesn’t mean you have to stop learning. The team behind open source Project Clarity breaks down 10 important lessons they learned from launching the design system. This post is a great resource for open source maintainers and contributors looking for best practices on how to successfully launch a project.
OpenFaaS is one of the buzzier serverless open source projects around, and this year we were lucky enough to have founder Alex Ellis join the VMware team. Alex has been up to a lot since coming on board in February, and this recap post details all the impressive advancements he’s made with OpenFaaS in just under six short months.
There are tons of open source projects out there but making noise around them in such a crowded landscape can be difficult. After all, you want people in the community to use and hopefully contribute to your project. Thankfully, VMware’s Open Source Technology Center is here to offer pointers on how to take your new or existing internal project and turn it into a widely-used open source project.
You can learn a lot from the trials and errors of an open source project that’s been around for more than a decade. The team behind Open vSwitch recaps the 10-year history of the project and offers an exclusive look at what’s in the pipeline for Open vSwitch as it embarks on its second decade.
If you’re looking for a light, funny read, look no further than this accumulation of eight of the weirdest, most bizarre open source projects around. Whether they’re spouting off some of Arnold’s Schwarzenegger’s most infamous lines or having fun with the internet’s favorite meme inspiration—cats—these projects are sure to get you smiling.
Blockchain’s beginnings lie in open source, and they’re more natural partners than you might think as we recently pointed out. The distributed ledger technology industry, which is powered by blockchain, is set to become a significant driver of growth and innovation for the global economy. This article from Blockchain News details why the Linux Foundation plans to include core blockchain open source technology to insulate community licensees from any patent risks.
Our post about the state of serverless that kicked off our summer reading list dives into the what and how, while this piece from Forbes analyzes the why. Companies are adopting serverless technologies at a much faster rate than anticipated. Forbes breaks down why serverless is skewing away from the typical tech adoption pattern with two distinct patterns of its own.
What could possibly be better than cooling off on a sweltering summer day with a tall glass of open source beer? Nothing. Enjoy this article from Digital Trends about a brewery in Portland going open source with their hops, then crack open a bottle for yourself.
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