🌐 🗣️ Open Source Weekly - Issue #10
Docker founder Solomon Hykes launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup
Docker founder launches Dagger, a new DevOps startup that has now raised $30 million.
It’s been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution. Docker has gone through its share of ups and downs since then, including selling its enterprise business to Mirantis in 2019, but Hykes, who was long the public face of Docker, mostly stayed on the periphery, with the exception of his participation in a few funding rounds. For a while now, though, he’s been quietly working on his next startup, Dagger, which is launching into public beta today and announcing a $20 million Series A funding round.
Open source, Open hearts
Show your love for the OSS community and send a token of appreciation to your favorite open source developers and projects.
Netlify launches page to spread gratitude and recognition with the contributors of open source projects, for the time dedicated to the community.
Can Open Source Sustain Itself without Losing Its Soul?
Open source projects depend on maintainers who largely work for free. Can they get paid without losing the freedom that defines free software communities?
At the end of 2021, the Log4j security vulnerability once again thrust the challenges of open source into the spotlight. This crisis birthed an “I told you so” moment for open source communities that are expected to consistently support and maintain projects with little (or, more likely, no) compensation at all.
But while the problems with open source persist, it nevertheless remains a fundamental part of many developers’ identities.
10 very promising Open Source Projects you haven’t heard of
Let's explore 10 game-changing open source libraries that can make your code faster, prettier, and cheaper. A hand-picked list of the coolest dev tools and projects on GitHub in 2022.
The OSS Startup Podcast
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JSON Visio 1.0
JSON Visio is an app to allow users to view JSON data as interactive graphs without having to restructure the data. You can type your code directly into the webapp, or import directly into the editor. Fun fact: this project is built using TypeScript! Congrats to Aykut Saraç for shipping the first major version 🥳.
COSS Weekly #74
💰 COSS Funding: $475.9M
- Grafana Labs announced their $240M Series D - read more here
- Improbable (a metaverse technology company) announced their $150M funding round - read more here
- Data.world announced their $50M Series C- read more here
- Appwrite announced their $27M Series A led by Tiger Global - read more here
- Stackblitz announced their $7.9M Seed - read more here
- Tom-Preston Warner announces $1M fund to invest in RedwoodJS startups - read more here