Tag: open source
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IoT Day
We first celebrated Internet of Things Day in 2013 when we monitored the temperature of our IoT Day beers using proprietary IoT hardware and software that we largely created ourselves. Yesterday, on “IoT Day Eve 2024” the world witnessed a rare total solar eclipse, and we monitored illuminance using an interoperable, open source IoT stack.…
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Farewell open source
A year ago today we found ourselves in San Francisco proudly accepting an Elastic Search Award. A year ago today, COVID-19 had not yet been declared a global pandemic, and the Elastic Stack was open source. Today, the Elastic Stack is no longer open source, and we’re in the second wave of a global pandemic.…
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Open hardware: a closed case?
If you’re familiar with our blog posts, you’ll know we never get bored populating them with puns (oof, there they are already). In case it isn’t obvious, the title is playing on the word case: we’ll be talking about enclosures here. Specifically, why is open hardware so seldom designed to take advantage of an off-the-shelf…
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A Fool to Open Source
This week, while paying a visit to one of our Fortune 500 clients, they asked us why we open sourced our software. “Anyone could just copy your work” they said. “Aren’t you afraid that someone steals your business from you?” Wow. We hadn’t thought of that. We just figured we were following the Lean Startup…
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