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Rails ElasticSearch (And Kibana, holy shit) MySQL React Ractive Ubuntu NGINX Redis We stand on the backs of giants. Yet, for some reason, corporations feel entitled to not give back. Modern computing lives by open source. Companies should be obliged to contribute similarly.
loomio & cobudget
Eclipse
Vagrant
Bash
Pmwiki
Ubuntu
Nginx
Apache
MySQL
Maven
Puppet
Spark has improved our ETL jobs by orders of magnitude, both with respect to performance and ability to engage our workforce (mostly Python programmers). Previous tools that improved workflow: docker, nginx.
Spark has improved our ETL jobs by orders of magnitude, both with respect to performance and ability to engage our workforce (mostly Python programmers). Previous tools that improved workflow: docker, nginx.
What is Spark? Google turns up a bunch of projects called that.
Not a single tool we use is open source. Mainly because with an open source application there's no one source for security to go to and ask for a letter certifying the safety of the software. I wish I were kidding.
no linux servers anywhere? No open source network infrastructure?
Back in the "dark days", I worked for a couple of Microsoft Certified Partners. One of the things they all had in common was a "no open source" policy. I wasn't even allowed to run emacs as my editor. GPL was explicitly "evil" and even more permissive licenses were "evil enough". Hell, I had to use Visual Source Safe for version control! I would have killed for RCS, let alone something like Subversion.
And, no, not a single Linux box, or even BSD system to be found. Every single server was running Windows. I remember noticing strange network traffic one time and, lacking the tools in Windows, booted up Knoppix and diagnosed the problem -- a former employee had set up a program on an idle machine to forward the source code for our software outside the company. I couldn't tell the network admins how I had found the problem because it was more than my job was worth to admit to having used GPL software on the premises.
Of course, I don't work for companies like that any more. In fact, I'm gratified to discover that they are so rare that nobody believes they could possibly exist. In my current job, apart from 3 SaaS products (Github, Trello and Slack), every single tool I use is open source. I sometimes have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming...
HAProxy: http://www.haproxy.org/ The configuration language leaves much to be desired ... but it's otherwise a fantastic piece of software. It's the most configurable, full-featured, stable, and fast proxy server I've ever worked with.