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They definitely are relevant despite what the armchair experts say on HN. Do you use AWS or GCP or Fastly? These companies don't provide huge sponsorship dollar
by sparrc 3y ago
They definitely are relevant despite what the armchair experts say on HN. Do you use AWS or GCP or Fastly? These companies don't provide huge sponsorship dollars to Apache out of the goodness of their hearts. Many of the cloud services you use are backed by one or more Apache projects.
- phkahler 3y ago>> Many of the cloud services you use are backed by one or more Apache projects. So name the projects being used and not the dollars flowing to ASF. Also this is completely orthogonal to the fact that they keep OpenOffice "alive" strictly selfishly for their own benefit and to the detriment of LibreOffice.
- Twirrim 3y agohttps://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/web_server Apache HTTPd accounts for nearly a third of the webservers in use on the internet today. Apache Arrow underpins a swathe of datascience tooling, as does Apache Parquet. Then there's Apache Kafka, and Apache Hadoop, naturally. Apache Maven is still the predominant tool for doing Java compilation, and in the Java space lets not forget such things as Log4J, where we saw absolute chaos a couple of years ago caused by those vulnerabilities in it. Most of the cloud services you interact with, especially at Amazon, are written in Java. The list of crucial projects leveraged by the wider industry goes on and on and on. Yes, Apache seems to end up as a dumping ground for an awful lot of open source projects, but that's not all it is.