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A Simple System that Uses Duplicati for Backing Up Data
The open source based data backup system outlined here can be really useful for a small office home office setup. Learn how to set up Duplicati on Windows, back up data to a Linux server, schedule daily backups, secure them with encryption, restore files when needed, and receive email notifications.
9 min |
August 2025
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Lisp for Robotics: Implementing Graph Traversal
Created in 1959 by John McCarthy, Lisp is a programming language designed to manipulate symbolic data easily, which is a key characteristic of AI. This language is still used for prototyping and to demonstrate different AI concepts. Here's a short tutorial on how it can help to implement three graph traversal algorithms.
5 min |
August 2025
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LibreOffice 25.2.5 is stable and reliable after 63 bug fixes
The Document Foundation has officially released LibreOffice 25.2.5, the fifth maintenance update in the LibreOffice 25.2 series.
1 min |
August 2025
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The Evolution of PostgreSQL in the Age of AI
PostgreSQL, enhanced with the pgvector extension, brings semantic search capabilities into a traditional SQL environment. With support for both structured queries and Al-driven search, pgvector enables developers to build intelligent, cost-effective applications within a familiar ecosystem, positioning PostgreSQL as a future-ready, Al-native database. Let's learn more....
5 min |
August 2025
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Calico: Open source platform for Kubernetes networking, security, and observability is in version 3.30
Calico is an open source, unified platform that integrates networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes environments—whether deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
1 min |
August 2025
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Red Hat launches RHEL for Business Developers
Red Hat has announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers, a new self-service offering aimed at simplifying access to its flagship enterprise Linux platform for development and testing.
1 min |
August 2025
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Data Governance in the Digital Era: An Overview
Data governance plays a critical role in ensuring effective data management in an organisation. Businesses who invest in it are at a definite advantage over those who don't.
7 min |
August 2025
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Shape the Success of Your Business with Smart Data Management and Security Practices
In today's world, data is a company's best asset, if used well. Also, data management and data security are no longer merely good business practices - they are critical to the success of an organisation.
6 min |
August 2025
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Wireshark 4.4.8 comes with updated protocol support and key bug fixes
The Wireshark team has announced the release of Wireshark 4.4.8, the eighth maintenance update in the 4.4 stable series of the world's most popular open source network protocol analyser.
1 min |
August 2025
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HealSphere: An Open Source-Based Mental Health Support Platform
This real-world CI/CD implementation has been developed using open source tools to deploy a modular mental health support platform.
10+ min |
August 2025
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Using Kafka Connectors for Data Pipelines: An Overview
Find out how to use Kafka Connect and the pre-built connectors that come with it to connect Kafka to the external systems that businesses use, including databases and cloud storage. There are some best practices for using these connectors too.
3 min |
August 2025
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Unleashing the Power of GraphRAG for Smarter Recommendations
Explore how GraphRAG addresses the core limitations of vector-based retrieval and is a significant step forward in the evolution of intelligent applications.
3 min |
August 2025
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SageMath: A First Look at Public-Key Cryptography
In the last article in this SageMath series (published in the March 2025 issue of Open Source For You), we concluded our discussion on symmetric-key encryption. As promised, this article will focus on public-key cryptography (PKC). However, before diving into that, we will briefly examine some recent developments in the field of quantum computing. We will also introduce the concept of cryptanalysis to understand how these emerging trends could have potentially catastrophic implications for cybersecurity.
9 min |
August 2025
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL vs MariaDB: Which Database Fits Your Needs?
Discover how you should go about choosing between the three popular open source relational database management systems - PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.
10+ min |
August 2025
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AI Agents in Your Workforce
Companies are experimenting with AI agents for tasks ranging from coding and payroll processing to more intense ones like chip design.
10+ min |
August 2025
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GitHub Copilot: Maximising Developer Productivity in Enterprise Java Applications
This brief tutorial on using GitHub Copilot for developing Enterprise Java applications also showcases its various features.
3 min |
August 2025
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"We believe genAl will soon run itself, optimising and scaling without humans"
Bud Ecosystem's software helps genAl work on regular hardware, doing away with the need for large GPUs or a complicated setup and leading to reduced costs. In a chat with OSFY's Nidhi Agarwal and Niraj Sahay, Jithin VG, Founder and CEO of Bud Ecosystem, talked about building India's top genAl model, the challenges of running AI at scale without GPUs, and how open source tools can help more people and companies use Al on their own terms.
10+ min |
August 2025
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Implementing Zero Trust with the Power of Open Source
Zero trust architecture that trusts nothing and no one is the order of the day. What's great is that open source offers a range of tools to implement such architecture. Find out what these tools are, and how to put them to best use.
2 min |
August 2025
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Leveraging Generative AI and Prompt Engineering to Enhance Cloud Operations
We explore the benefits of using generative Al and prompt engineering for cloud operations. Popular GenAl tools for major cloud platforms and cloud-agnostic solutions are also listed, along with real-world examples of effective prompt engineering.
10 min |
August 2025
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Data as a Product: The New Paradigm
Treating data as a product (DaaP) requires the development of reliable systems that can be shared, reused and deliver value. Let’s understand this concept and the important role open source is playing in its implementation.
10+ min |
August 2025
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Autonomous Vehicles: Detecting Pedestrians Using YOLOV5
Using Al to identify and track pedestrians in real-time is helping autonomous vehicles become smarter and safer than ever before. Here’s an outline of an indigenous project developed to do just that using YOLOV5, a deep learning object detector.
5 min |
July 2025
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Python: Made for Making Machine Learning Models
Discover how Python, a language most programmers love, is also turning into the language of choice for developing machine learning models.
6 min |
July 2025
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Setting up a Security Testbed in Windows Using Docker
Docker's versatility and cross-platform support make it essential for developers, DevOps engineers, and systems administrators. This tutorial will guide you through setting up Docker on your operating system and introduce a complete security testing environment using Docker. By the end of it, you'll have a functional test bed ready to explore vulnerabilities and security tools in a streamlined containerised environment.
10+ min |
July 2025
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Containers and Virtual Machines: What's the Difference?
Here's an explanation of what containers and virtual machines are, how they work and compare, and when to use each technology in modern software deployment.
4 min |
July 2025
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The Why, What, and How of Containerisation
Containerisation has revolutionised software development by offering lightweight, portable, and scalable solutions for application deployment. Containers empower teams to deploy applications faster and more reliably in diverse environments. Let's find out how and why they work so well.
4 min |
July 2025
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Kubernetes: Architecting Agility in the Enterprise
At its core, Kubernetes offers a powerful abstraction layer that simplifies the deployment and management of containerised applications. Enterprises cannot afford to ignore the scalability, security and cost-effectiveness it offers.
6 min |
July 2025
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Podman: An Overview of Its Usage and Applications
In the rapidly evolving landscape of containerisation, Podman has emerged as a robust and flexible alternative to traditional container management solutions such as Docker. This comprehensive overview of Podman details its architecture, key features, and applications in modern software development and deployment.
3 min |
July 2025
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The Journey from VMs to Containers and Kubernetes
Let’s walk through the journey from traditional VMs to containers and, finally, to Kubernetes. We'll keep things simple, explain the key concepts along the way, and share practical insights that can help you whether you’re new to DevOps or just curious about what’s powering today’s cloud-native apps.
8 min |
July 2025
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Building a Scalable E-Commerce Platform with Microservices, Kafka, and Kubernetes
This real-world implementation of a full-stack, microservices-based e-commerce platform uses open source technologies. The project demonstrates how open source tools can power scalable, reactive applications with production-grade architecture and provides insights into containerised deployments, observability, and service communication patterns.
7 min |
July 2025
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A Complete Guide to Deploying Java Applications in Docker
Explore the entire life cycle of deploying Java applications via Docker -- from understanding the basics and writing the initial Dockerfile to building container images and managing complex multi-container deployments using Docker Compose. You can use this guide to streamline the deployment pipeline of a Spring Boot microservice, a traditional Java SE program, and even an enterprise web application.
7 min |