Matt Asay
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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.
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 — well, some do
You might think open source projects only want users who contribute code. It’s complicated
Open source projects take all kinds
If you think open source projects only want users who contribute code, think again
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
Remember when open source was fun?
For the creators of Drupal, Curl, and Fio, their projects didn’t seem like work. There might be a lesson for the rest of us
Remember when open source was fun?
For the creators of Drupal, Curl, and Fio, their projects didn’t seem like work. There might be a lesson for the rest of us
Checking AI bias is a job for the humans
By pre-processing or post-processing data, or even setting datasets to expire, humans can step in to correct machine learning models
Open source made the cloud in its image
Just as the Unix philosophy provided a blueprint for open source, open source practices and design principles provided a model for the cloud
COVID-19 is accelerating CI/CD adoption
Companies recognized the need to improve their development workflow years ago. With developers forced to work remotely, they’re finally moving
Why companies are racing to implement CI/CD
Businesses recognized the need to improve their development workflow years ago. With developers forced to work remotely, they’re finally moving
Cassandra and DataStax reunited — and just in time
Past the ‘breakup,’ DataStax once again has an important role to play in the Apache Cassandra project
Cassandra and DataStax: Reunited, and it feels so good
Past the ‘breakup,’ DataStax once again has an important role to play in the Apache Cassandra project
Zeek and Jitsi: 2 open source projects we need now
Long proven but not well known, these network security monitoring and video conferencing tools couldn’t be more timely
GitOps puts the power of Git into Ops
GitOps might finally do for developers and operations teams what DevOps has long promised
WTH? OSS knows how to WFH IRL
If distributed teams could build something as great as Linux, then perhaps working from home could work for you
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