It’s not always obvious what really helps when it comes to getting your code upstream (i.e. accepted by core project maintainers). So, here’s a short primer based on my long experience as a Linux kernel developer and maintainer. First, why would you want to get your code upstream? For one thing, it reduces technical debt. Read more...
By Nisha Kumar Licenses are conditions for code use chosen by the creators of that code. If we don’t take care of these prior license requirements as we add to a project, we not only fail to credit the creators of the code we are using but we also impose extra risks on anyone wanting Read more...
By Venil Noronha This is my second of two posts about the Linux Foundation’s recent gRPC Conference. Check out my first post for some reflections on the conference as a whole and a few observations about where gRPC is going four years after it was open sourced by Google. This time around, I’ll share some key points Read more...
By Malini Bhandaru You want to be an active open source contributor, but how do you do that effectively? Here’s one way to look at it: think “we before me.”The “we” here includes the open source developers you know and work with, but it also embraces your customers and all of the partners involved in Read more...
By Venil Noronha I recently attended the Linux Foundation’s first ever gRPC Conference in Sunnyvale, California and gave a presentation on some work that I’ve been doing to connect the increasingly popular open source remote procedure call (RPC) system with Istio and Envoy. In this first of two blogs, I’ll briefly explain what gRPC does for those Read more...
