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Sheng Wu – Apache Skywalking

May 12, 2020
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Apache Skywalking is Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems. Here’s PMC chair Sheng Wu talking more about what that means.

If you prefer video, that’s here.

Links:

Dmitriy Pavlov – Apache Ignite

May 4, 2020
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Apache Ignite® is a horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant distributed in-memory computing platform for building real-time applications that can process terabytes of data with in-memory speed. Feathercast speaks with Dmitriy Pavlov to learn more about what that means.

Links:

Apache Ignite: https://ignite.apache.org/

Success at Apache: Why you’d want to become an Apache Committer, by Dmitriy Pavlov on the Apache Blog: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-why-you

If you prefer video, that’s here: https://youtu.be/lC1cO6L0eEY

Trevor Grant – Apache Mahout

April 27, 2020
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mahout Apache Mahout is a project “For Creating Scalable Performant Machine Learning Applications”. Project member Trevor Grant talks about what that means.

Prefer video? It’s on YouTube.

Links:

Mahout: http://mahout.apache.org/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApacheMahout
The mailing lists: http://mahout.apache.org/general/mailing-lists
COVID-19: Denoising COVID-19 CT Scans With Scalable Open Source Software https://lettersinbiomath.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/lib/article/view/289 (Paper referenced in the interview)

Jarek Potiuk: Apache Airflow

April 20, 2020
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Apache Airflow is a platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows. Project member Jarek Potiuk explains what that means.

Prefer video? It’s on YouTube.

Links:

Airflow: http://airflow.apache.org/
Latest release (1.10.10): https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-1.10.10/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApacheAirflow
Airflow summit: https://airflowsummit.org/
Photo Credit (Conductor photo) – Steven Pisano, Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/45776673@N04/49615751236/

Swapnil Mane – Apache OFBiz

April 13, 2020
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ofbiz Apache OFBiz is a suite of business applications flexible enough to be used across any industry. Swapnil Mane tells us some more about what that means, and what’s changed since we did the last OFBiz Feathercast back in 2006.

If you prefer video, that’s on YouTube

Links:

OFBiz – http://ofbiz.apache.org
Slack – https://the-asf.slack.com/ , #ofbiz channel
Twitter – http://twitter.com/ApacheOfbiz
Wiki – https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Home
Community days: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days
2006 OFBiz Feathercast – https://feathercast.apache.org/2006/12/06/episode-22-ofbiz/

Apache Sling, with Bertrand Delacretaz

April 6, 2020
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Apache Sling™ is a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an extensible content tree. Bertrand Delacretaz tells us more about what that means.

And, if you prefer video, it’s on YouTube as well.

Important links:

Apache Sling – https://sling.apache.org/

Sling on Github – https://github.com/apache/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=sling

adaptTo() 2020 conference – https://adapt.to/2020/en.html (They’re also on Twitter.)

Alexandre Rafalovitch – Apache Solr

September 25, 2018
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I spoke with Alexandre Rafalovitch at ApacheCon North America 2018 in Montreal, about Apache Solr. Here’s our conversation.

You can read more about Solr on the Apache Lucene/Solr website.

Myrle Krantz: Apache Fineract

June 21, 2018
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Myrle Krantz is a member of the Apache Fineract community, which is an open source project which supports microfinance providers.

myrle

She will also be giving a keynote at the upcoming ApacheCon in Montreal.

Fineract: http://fineract.apache.org/
ApacheCon North America 2018: http://apachecon.com/acna18/

This interview is also available as video, on our YouTube channel – https://youtu.be/OiXuzTOAPzA

The new podcast music is provided by Bertrand Delecretaz!

Kevin McGrail: Apache Spamassassin 3.4.2 and beyond

June 20, 2018
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Apache Spamassassin is about to release 3.4.2, and is also working on the 4.0 branch. Project member Kevin McGrail talks about what’s in the new release, and what’s coming in the future.