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Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Who gets credit for open source success? Like so many winning projects, Weaveworks’ Cortex is the result of a long and winding chain of open source inspiration and innovation Credit: Dreamstime Over 2000 years ago the Roman historian Tacitus observed that “Victory is claimed by all”—or, as some translations put it, “Success has many fathers.” Open source is similar. For example, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recen...

Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service. The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming project. Datastax has now taken that team’s knowledge in this area and, combined with its own expertise, is launching its own Pulsar-based streaming platform by the name of Datastax Luna Streaming, which is now generally available. This move comes ...

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Recordon also served as engineering director at Facebook from 2009 to 2015 and again from 2017 to 2018, after his first period at the White House. Most recently, he was vice president for infrastructure and security at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a Zuckerberg family nonprofit that tackles social issues with technology. Open source plays a big part in Recordon's career. He managed several open-source projects at Facebook, where he also served as open programs manager. These included the Phabricator code review tools the company uses internally and the Apache Cassandra distributed database....

To get to that Prometheus service a number of different companies and open source communities played a part: SoundCloud, which gave birth to Prometheus; Hyperic, the inspiration behind Cortex (by way of Scope); SpringSource, which recognized the business value in monitoring. Oh, and at the center of everything, Weaveworks, the company perhaps best known for GitOps but which also created Cortex. Buried in the history of Cortex is a lesson in apportioning open source credit. The tl;dr? It’s complicated. It’s also diffuse. And it’s exactly how open source is supposed to work. Money and ope...