Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the details that the customer needs for their software. Time is also changing; the emergence of AI combined with ...

Upstreaming can improve your code, simplify development, and lighten your maintenance burden. Follow these best practices when donating code and reap the benefits. Code commonly flows downstream, from ...

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

In the world of software development, the debate between open-source and proprietary software has been ongoing for years. While both have their merits, open-source software is increasingly being ...

Open-source protocols have become a mainstay in the tech world and are gaining traction due to the myriad benefits that they offer over their proprietary counterparts. The protocols are typically ...

The ActiveState catalog grew to 40 million components in mid 2025 when it introduced coverage for Java and R in addition to Python, Perl, Ruby, and Tcl. As of January 2026, the company has expanded ...

Grants for critical, unappreciated projects Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of ...