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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said.

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

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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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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

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In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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LinkedIn open sources a control plane for lake houses

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LinkedIn open sources a lot of code. Open-source projects tend to be created by developers to solve engineering problems while commercial products … Anyway, LinkedIn has a new open-source data offering called OpenHouse , which is billed as an control plane for tables in open data lakehouses.

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Open-Source and DataStax Cassandra Versions: A Comprehensive Guide

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In this blog post, we will explore the relationship between the open-source Apache Cassandra project and DataStax, a company that offers an enterprise version of Cassandra, along with the different options available in both ecosystems. Some notable versions include: Apache Cassandra 2.x Apache Cassandra 3.x x : Cassandra 3.x

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Burp Suite vs. OWASP – Comprehensive Testing Comparison

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This blog post undertakes an in-depth exploration, conducting a thorough comparison between two prominent contenders in the field: Burp Suite and OWASP. Burp Suite: Burp Suite, developed by PortSwigger, stands as a well-established web vulnerability scanner and security testing tool.