The relicensings will continue until morale improves (Changelog News #57)
Aug 14, 2023
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Matt Rickard discusses why Tailwind CSS won. Other topics include HashiCorp adopting a Business Source license, WarpStream's Kafka-compatible offering on S3, managing difficult software engineers, and Russ Cox's update on Go 2.
HashiCorp is shifting to a 'business source' model to prevent other vendors from benefiting from their open source projects without contributing back.
Warpstream is a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform that aims to simplify and reduce the cost associated with Kafka deployments.
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HashiCorp Co-Founder introduces 'business source' model
HashiCorp co-founder, Armin Daddgar, announced that their future products will follow a 'business source' model instead of being open source. Although they attribute the success of their open source products to commercial customer partnerships, they express concerns about other vendors benefiting from the community-driven open source projects without contributing back. As a result, vendors offering competitive services will no longer be able to incorporate future releases or contributions, sparking a range of reactions and discussions about the future of open source.
Warpstream: Kafka-compatible data streaming platform
Richard R. Tool has introduced Warpstream, a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform built on top of S3, aiming to simplify and reduce the cost associated with Kafka deployments. Warpstream streams data directly from and to S3, eliminating the need for local disk management, brokers rebalancing, and ZooKeeper operations. While Kafka is widely used, Warpstream addresses its complexity and cost trade-offs, highlighting its latency as a significant factor. With Warpstream, they aim to offer a more straightforward and cost-effective alternative for event streaming.
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HashiCorp adopts a Business Source license, Matt Rickard hypothesizes why Tailwind CSS won, WarpStream sets out to make a Kafka-compatible offering directly on S3, Vadim Kravcenko publishes an excellent guide for managing difficult software engineers & Russ Cox gives an update on Go 2.