Apache Spot - A Community Approach to Fighting Cyber Threats

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Apache Spot is a community-driven cybersecurity project, built from the ground up, to bring advanced analytics to all IT Telemetry data on an open, scalable platform. pot expedites threat detection, investigation, and remediation via machine learning and consolidates all enterprise security data into a comprehensive IT telemetry hub based on open data models.

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XChat - IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows

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XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

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Adium - Instant Messaging for Mac

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Adium is a instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, XMPP (Jabber), ICQ, IRC, Bonjour and more. It supports Encryption, File transfer, Tabbed chat windows and lot more.

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YXORP - Reverse proxy for the HTTP protocol

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yxorp is a reverse proxy and application level firewall for the HTTP protocol. It can do all kinds of checks on HTTP traffic, and is highly configurable. It also has other functions that are useful for a web frontend, like load balancing. It aims to conform to RFC 2616, RFC 2518, RFC 2109 and other applicable standards.

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Pyro - Deep universal probabilistic programming with Python and PyTorch

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Pyro is a universal probabilistic programming language (PPL) written in Python and supported by PyTorch on the backend. Pyro enables flexible and expressive deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling.

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Ngnix - High Performance Web Server, Proxy Server, Content Cache and Reverse Proxy

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Nginx is a High Performance Web Server, Proxy Server, Content Cache and Reverse Proxy server. It can also be used as mail proxy server and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server. Nginx claims to be more efficient and faster in the Web space compared to the other web servers. This can be evident with the architecture which is based on asynchronous event-driven approach. The event driven architecture enables to scale to hundreds / thousands of concurrent connections.

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ONLYOFFICE Document Server, an online office app for Nextcloud and ownCloud

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ONLYOFFICE Document Server is a free collaborative online office suite including viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx). This article provides you the overview of ONLYOFFICE Document Server, its features, installation and integration with Nextcloud and ownCloud.

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Exonum Blockchain Framework by the Bitfury Group

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Exonum is an extensible open source blockchain framework for building private blockchains which offers outstanding performance, data security, as well as fault tolerance. The framework does not include any business logic, instead, you can develop and add the services that meet your specific needs. Exonum can be used to build various solutions from a document registry to a DevOps facilitation system.

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Europe Copyright reform may affect Open Source Ecosystem

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Europe is planning to bring in new copyright law, which would require code sharing sites to monitor copyright content to avoid potential copyright infringement. The proposed Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive targets every online service that allows its users to upload and share content with each other, including code hosting platforms.

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An Introduction to the UnQLite Embedded NoSQL Database Engine

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UnQLite is an embedded NoSQL database engine. It's a standard Key/Value store similar to the more popular Berkeley DB and a document-store database similar to MongoDB with a built-in scripting language called Jx9 that looks like Javascript. Unlike most other NoSQL databases, UnQLite does not have a separate server process. UnQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete database with multiple collections is contained in a single disk file. The database file format is cross-platform, you can freely copy a database between 32-bit and 64-bit systems or between big-endian and little-endian architectures.

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Uber's open source technology stack

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Uber, a taxi aggregation platform operates around the globe. It was started as monolith application and later re-architected as bunch of microservices, which gives them scalability. Uber uses lot of open source tools and they have contributed quite a lot projects back to the community. This article is about analyzing Uber's open source technology stack.

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Stackoverflow Open Source Technology Stack

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Stackoverflow is one of most widely used Q&A platform. It is the default choice of developers. It has over 100 million page views in a month and its Google page rank is 60. Check out its open source technology stack, the tools used to build such a popular website. Stackoverflow uses open source projects and also contributes to it.

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Open Source Technology Stack used in WhatsApp

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WhatsApp is a most widely used cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. Users can send text, images videos, audio for free. It almost replaced SMS. It changed the way people interact with each other. Lets check out the technology behind WhatsApp

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Free and Open source tools to build OpenJDK in Windows

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OpenJDK is the open source implementation of Java Standard Edition. Oracle (Sun) JDK implementation is going to be based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are almost similar. There are ready made binaries available for Linux distribution but you may need to build OpenJDK on windows.

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Zimbra - Enterprise Email Server Stack

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Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.

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