AWS Open Source Blog
Author: Matt Asay
Matt Asay (pronounced "Ay-see") has been involved in open source and all that it enables (cloud, machine learning, data infrastructure, mobile, etc.) for nearly two decades, working for a variety of open source companies and writing regularly for InfoWorld and TechRepublic. You can follow him on Twitter (@mjasay).
An outsider’s inside view on open source at AWS
As AWS continues to increase our participation in a wide variety of open source communities, we’ve been fortunate to get to work with a range of talented developers. One of these contributors is Dr. Colin Percival, a long-time FreeBSD developer perhaps best known for his work on FreeBSD Update and Portsnap. Colin is also […]
How AWS is helping to open source the future of robotics
Our robot overlords may not take over anytime soon, but when they do, they’ll likely be running ROS. ROS, or Robot Operating System, was launched over a decade ago to unite developers in building “a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across […]
What Amazon gets by giving back to Apache Lucene
At pretty much any scale, search is hard. It becomes dramatically harder, however, when searching at Amazon scale: think billions of products, complicated by millions of sellers constantly changing those products on a daily basis, with hundreds of millions of customers searching through that inventory at all hours. Although Amazon has powered its product […]
Why does AWS contribute to open source? The Firecracker example
Open source has long lived by the credo that “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.” At AWS, however, we’re not content with simply writing good software: we write software to meet customer needs. Over 90% of what we build is driven by customer demand, and the rest comes from […]