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

TechCrunch

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 open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

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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Burp Suite vs. OWASP – Comprehensive Testing Comparison

Perficient

This blog post undertakes an in-depth exploration, conducting a thorough comparison between two prominent contenders in the field: Burp Suite and OWASP. ZAP (OWASP Zed Attack Proxy) ZAP is an open-source web application security scanner that is part of the OWASP project. OWASP: Fosters a collaborative and open-source community.

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Redis OM Spring is 10x faster — How I contributed to this Open Source Repository

Xebia

What I didn’t know was that this curiosity would lead me to my first open-source contribution. redis @Redisinc — Raphael De Lio (@RaphaelDeLio) August 26, 2022 And sent a message to Brian if there was any way I could actually contribute to the project: Brian asked me to do a comparison with Spring Data Redis as well.

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Free material open source training content

Rapid BI

Is there such a thing as free open source quality training materials? The debate was an interesting one and where one individual raised the comparison with the software market – where great programs like Open-office etc are available free. […].