Matt Asay
Contributor
Matt Asay is a Principal at Amazon Web Services. Formerly, Asay was Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing, and community at MongoDB; VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator); VP of business development and interim CEO at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (acquired by Facebook); COO at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and head of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management startup. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and holds a J.D. from Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues.
Do we need so many databases?
We have hundreds of different databases to choose from for storing our data — and we need more
Digital transformation shifts into overdrive
Companies that let developers choose the technology, while executives chart bold goals, will navigate the change best
How GraphQL turned web development on its head
With GraphQL, you get to build whatever API you like and let the client determine what data it wants to access. Just don’t call it a query language
How Redis scratched an itch — and changed databases forever
For decades we were hamstrung by the belief the database was a ‘solved’ problem, until open source developers opened our eyes
Will the solo open source developer survive the pandemic?
Many important projects are maintained by volunteer developers who may now have more pressing needs than volunteering
Open source projects take all kinds
If you think open source projects only want users who contribute code, think again
Open source projects take all kinds — well, some do
You might think open source projects only want users who contribute code. It’s complicated
The most important part of an open source project
We rightly put open source contributors on a pedestal, but perhaps we should rethink the hierarchy of contributions
The most important part of an open source project
We rightly put open source contributors on a pedestal, but perhaps we should rethink the hierarchy of contributions
Gatsby JS stands on the shoulders of thousands
If Linux stood on the shoulders of giants, Gatsby relies on an entire ecosystem of JavaScript developers and upstream projects
