At this week’s Open Source Summit Japan, the Valkey team explained its rationale for forking the widely used Redis database after Redis changed its license. The project leaders cited critical red flags like closed governance where the company held veto power and rejected community-requested features, reports technology journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Today’s post looks at what makes the Valley fork successful.
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Tony Kovanen, co-creator of Next.js and co-founder of Vercel’s predecessor company, has quietly driven major open source projects. But instead of choosing the spotlight, he’s quietly chosen to follow passion projects. We asked him about his career and learn about his work as founding engineer at the agentic AI company Mastra.
Today’s tutorial looks at Gemini CLI, a powerful, open source command-line interface tool powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro. It’s installed locally via Node.js and npm and offers a generous free tier of up to 1,000 requests per day, reports TNS regular contributor Jack Wallen. He walks readers through the installation and using the tool.
Learn how knowledge graphs can act as a "left brain" to ground your AI with facts, context and reasoning for high-stakes applications.
We have all seen the headlines that enterprise AI is failing at a high rate. MIT has reported that 95% of GenAI pilots fail. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently said...
Kubernetes at the Edge: Container Orchestration at Scale
Have you had a chance to check out our eBook, Kubernetes at the Edge: Container Orchestration at Scale? Packed with expert insights, this go-to resource helps you navigate the complexities, evaluate vendors, and apply proven insights for deploying Kubernetes at the edge.
From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI
The co-creator of Jupyter notebooks discussed the project's origins and how AI is opening new options for large open source projects, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.
