MariaDB is a popular open-source database management system used in many production systems. MariaDB was born after Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL in 2008. MariaDB is written under the liberal open source GPLv2 license and is developed by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked the project due to concerns over then-owner Oracle’s intentions … Read more
Elasticsearch is a free and open-search software, meaning its source code can be inspected and used for any purpose. Elasticsearch is just one part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) which constitute an open-source log analytics platform. It enables users to analyze data stored in virtually any structured or unstructured format across numerous … Read more
Cockpit is free, open-source software that provides a web-based graphical interface for Linux servers and appliances (such as firewalls and network switches). Cockpit is a web-based server administration tool targeted at the new generation of sysadmins who need to manage many Linux servers. Its main goal is to make multiple managing servers more accessible. Cockpit … Read more
Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database with high performance, scalability, and availability. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across hundreds of machines in a single cluster. It offers both synchronous and asynchronous replication and batch processing on top of a columnar storage engine. Cassandra is written entirely in Java … Read more
Yarn is a package manager for Node (Node.js) and is a replacement for npm (node package manager). Instead of installing from a registry, Yarn installs packages from other nodes on your network that have already downloaded the packages. This speeds up the installation for projects with many node modules. Yarn has some advantages: First, it … Read more