Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Apache ShardingSphere, Mastodon, SUSE, and TCMS
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Create a highly available distributed database with Apache ShardingSphere | Opensource.com
Modern business systems must be highly available, reliable, and stable in the digital age. As the cornerstone of the current business system, databases are supposed to embrace high availability.
High availability (HA) allows databases to switch services between primary and secondary database nodes. HA automatically selects a primary, picking the best node when the previous one crashes.
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Two observations about Mastodon in early 2023 : Dissociated Press
Tonight, not for the first time, I learned about a “breaking news” item from Mastodon. That’s been happening more often over the past few weeks, whereas this time last year I’d have gotten this kind of thing via Twitter first.
This seems significant to me because Mastodon is making the leap from “a small group of people talking about the service itself a lot” to “several of my friends are here and there’s some community” to “a news source” rather quickly. It took Twitter a long time to cross that chasm. And it’s one of the things that made Twitter valuable, if also a primary source of doom scrolling.
This doesn’t mean Mastodon is a drop-in replacement for Twitter. But. Mastodon, and the larger “Fediverse,” seem to be gaining critical mass beyond just numbers but also in the way it’s used.
The other observation is providers like Linode and Digital Ocean offering quickstarts for Mastodon hosting.
That’s good, it’s a step in the right direction, but it’s not the kind of “batteries included” offering that’s going to really cause self-hosted Mastodon to take off. Deploying a service is not the hard part. Maintaining the service, the “day two” operations, is what you have to worry about.
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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise | SUSE Communities
As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organization, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. To become a software-powered organization, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security.
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Kiwi TCMS - Kiwi TCMS 11.7
We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.7 and Happy New Year!