Interesting Snippets from 2012-07-19

• Economic impact of open source on small business - O'Reilly Radar

  We combed through mountains of data, built economic models, surveyed customers and had discussions with small and medium businesses (SMB) to pull together a fairly broad-reaching dataset on which to base our study.

• The Netflix Tech Blog: Open Source at Netflix

  At Netflix we use a wide range of Open Source technologies. In the recent months, we also released many of our internally developed components and libraries, starting with Curator for Zookeeper, and most recently with Asgard.

  We started down this path by becoming a big user of Apache licensed open source software. When we picked Apache Cassandra as our data storage solution we started to contribute fixes and extensions to optimize Cassandra’s capabilities on AWS. This led to us see the benefits of releasing our own projects and we created a central Netflix account at netflix.github.com as a home for them.

• Vagrant - Getting Started

  Vagrant uses Oracle’s VirtualBox to build configurable, lightweight, and portable virtual machines dynamically. The first couple pages serve to introduce you to Vagrant and what it has to offer while the rest of the guide is a technical walkthrough for building a fully functional web development environment. The getting started guide concludes by explaining how to package the newly created vagrant environment so other developers can get up and running in just a couple commands.

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