A systematic review of common beginner programming mistakes in data...
Abstract The design of effective programming languages, libraries, frameworks, tools, and platforms for data engineering strongly depends on their ease and correctness of use. Anyone who ignores that...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with German university startup incubators?
Let’s use the simple root cause analysis method of asking multiple times why. 1. Many German university incubators are a joke. Why are they a joke? 2. Because they don’t deliver what they should be...
View ArticleMaking your research work practical for industry use
Most research articles are written for other researchers, leaving “popularization” to further publications (that for the most part never happen). What if you were able to capture and present your...
View ArticleImproving country-level competitiveness through open source consortia
The German economy would be better off, and overall more competitive, if its participants collaborated on the development of open-source software they need to operate their business. They could free...
View ArticleThe software bill of materials [Computer Magazine]
I’m happy to report that the 34th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title The Software Bill of Materials...
View ArticleA taxonomy of microservice integration techniques [INFSOF Journal]
Abstract Context Microservices have become an important architectural style for building robust and scalable software systems. A system’s functionality is split into independent units, the...
View ArticleRe-relicensing to open source explained
In March 2024, Redis removed the open source license of its popular in-memory database and added the SSPL-1.0 license, a non-open source license according to the Open Source Initiative, the steward of...
View ArticleGetting to win/win with a university TTO
Over on LinkedIn, Stef van Grieken complains, rightfully, about a ridiculous demand by a university technology transfer office (TTO). To agree to a licensing deal with Stef’s company, the unnamed TTO...
View ArticleThe new coming relicensing scare?
What if commercial source-available vendors stopped licensing their product under their source-available license and only offered a traditional commercial license? In my current research interviews on...
View ArticleIs AI killing open source?
tl;dr Nah, things keep changing, but if anything, AI only helps open source sharpen its profile as the way to go about collaboratively developing high-quality broadly-usable software. Those who were...
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