Matt Asay

Commentary: It’s no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it’s happening all the same.

Commentary: Find out how artificial intelligence could help shape new, game-changing forms of student assessment.

Commentary: Mozilla has struggled for years to match its Firefox success. With Rust, Mozilla has surpassed it.

Commentary: Companies used to look to open source to lower costs. That’s still true, but an even bigger driver is security, according to a new developer survey.

Commentary: Software keeps getting more complicated to build. Robots might be the answer.

Commentary: A decade ago Apache Lucene and Apache Solr merged to improve both projects. The projects recently split for the same reason, which is a really good thing for users of search services.

Google has been investing in a variety of web frameworks, including Next.js, to help developers build better web applications. Here’s why.

Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact.

Apple has long been the proprietary bad guy, but Google’s privacy-sucking ways in Android should give open source freedom fighters reason to consider switching.

Slack has the $8 billion in projected market cap, but open source Mattermost has 10,000 downloads each month, adding up to a growing threat to Slack’s hegemony.

Redis Labs just put itself through the wringer with a new licensing strategy. It needn’t have bothered.

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub has some developers fuming, but it’s arguably good for both Microsoft and those same developers.