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5 posts tagged “Open Source”.

  1. 31 min read

    Apache Polaris 1.7.0 and the Quiet Work of Making a Catalog Trustworthy

    A Spark job commits a table update. The catalog writes the change to Postgres. Then the network drops between the catalog and the client, and the…

  2. 31 min read

    The Own Goal: What the Hugging Face Breach Reveals About Why Open Models Are a Security Necessity

    In July 2026, the artificial intelligence industry produced one of the most instructive stories it has ever told on itself, and it told the story by…

  3. 28 min read

    Open Source Foundations, Explained: What Apache, Linux, Eclipse, and Their Peers Actually Do, and Why Governance Differences Matter

    Writing about open data and AI means repeating the same phrases over and over: donated to the Apache Software Foundation, incubating at the Linux…

  4. 7 min read

    Use Hermes Agent for Free With DeepSeek V4 and Slack

    Most AI agent frameworks lock you into a paid model. Claude Code needs an Anthropic subscription. Codex needs an OpenAI plan. Cursor costs $20 a…

  5. 4 min read

    5 Open Source Data Projects You Should Be Following

    Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow, Nessie, Ibis, Substrait

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