Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being open source. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

Open Source 114

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 114

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools]), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was working on an application that opened the provided webpage and then give the user an option to modify elements, add events, add analytics, and so on. without any need to code. It was developed in 2004. Selenium WebDriver is open source; It offers bindings for every major programming language; Works across multiple OS.

Testing 117

Testing Network Website Google 117

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. MovableType really was before its time.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. Since I helped developed bpftrace, I'm aware of how fresh my own code is and how likely I introduced bugs. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools], aka scripts), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. Small changes in the website source code. Because every step has to be coded it takes a good amount of time for just automating a simple workflow.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42