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January 2023

7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that you may consider in 2023

Effective log management is a fundamental aspect of maintaining and troubleshooting today's complex systems and applications. The sheer volume of data generated by various software and hardware components can make it challenging to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner. Open-source log management tools offer a cost-efficient and customizable approach for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing log data.

Open Source Software Thrives: Key Trends and Insights from the Latest Octoverse Report

Open source software has had a tremendous year, with big gains across the board, according to the latest Octoverse report from GitHub. The report, which was presented by GitHub’s Vice President of Developer Relations Martin Woodward at Universe 2022, explores the state of open source and the key trends shaping software development.

Application Monitoring Using Open Source: Contrasting ClickHouse & VictoriaMetrics

Monitoring is the key to successful operation of any software service, but commercial solutions are complex, expensive, and slow. Let us show you how to build monitoring that is simple, cost-effective, and fast using open source stacks easily accessible to any developer.

A Beginner's Guide to IT Operations Management Tools

Operations management is fundamental to a successful enterprise. A company can only produce products and deliver services to meet customer needs and enhance customer satisfaction with effective operations. An operations management lifecycle includes tools and technology, basic principles, best practices, and all the elements of an operations strategy. An operations manager must be able to plan, organize, control, and manage the activities of the operations team.

OpenSearch Fireside Chat: Lessons learned from maintaining 10k+ OpenSearch clusters in production

OpenSearch® is a powerful open-source search and analytics suite, which allows you to easily ingest, search, aggregate, view, and analyze data. These capabilities are popular for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, clickstream analytics, search backend, and more. In this fireside chat, we’ll discuss the most common use cases and features of OpenSearch® with the experts at Big Data Boutique and Aiven, including live questions from the audience.

Real-time insights with Aiven for Apache Flink | Aiven webinar

Operating real-time streaming analytic solutions at scale can be difficult. In this session, Senior Solutions Architect Morvarid Aprin will describe some of the common challenges encountered in this arena, and how Aiven for Apache Flink is an excellent choice in overcoming these to provide businesses with valuable real-time insights. And then, she will show us just how easy it is to spin up Aiven for Apache Flink in our intuitive Console, and take a look at some use cases.

How to build data analytics pipelines faster than your morning commute | Aiven webinar

What is infrastructure? You may think of public transport and utilities, or perhaps networking and databases. All of those are infrastructure, and they actually have quite a bit in common. If words like “expensive”, “inconvenient” and “too slow” now come to mind, these are sad truths about buses, but your analytics pipelines could be running to a better schedule! Data is arriving faster and in greater quantities than ever before, from everywhere, all the time—we simply cannot afford to wait.

Introduction to Apache Arrow

A look at what Apache Arrow is, how it works, and some of the companies using it as a critical component in their architecture. Over the past few decades, leveraging big datasets required businesses to perform increasingly complex analysis. Advancements in query performance, analytics, and data storage are largely a result of greater access to memory. Demand, manufacturing process improvements, and technological advances all contributed to cheaper memory.

Top 10 Git GUI Clients for Linux

Git is an open-source version control system that is used to store code and web content in repositories. Git was designed to facilitate collaborative projects between developers. But leveraging the power of Git via the command line can be challenging to master, so many developers choose to use GUI clients to make using Git commands and actions more visual and simple.

Best Practices to Ensure Sustainable, Enterprise-Wide Open Source Software Adoption

Over the past two decades, adoption of open source software (OSS) among enterprises has become commonplace. In fact, because of the many advantages of open source, it is now almost impossible to find a business that does not rely on OSS. And with the proliferation of modern cloud native apps and microservices, this is only more true. Modern applications are built with open source, and you wouldn’t want to do it any other way.

5 open source projects to contribute to in 2023 | Open Source Matters

Welcome to Open Source Matters, where we cover the latest developments in open source technology. In this special edition, we’re covering 5 open source projects you should consider contributing to in 2023. I’m your host, Ben Lloyd Pearson — now, in no particular order, let’s dive in!