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This open source company founded by Mitchell Hashimoto is home to terraform and vault. Vault as of 2020 officially runs the GCP secrets manager.
What is HashiCorp?
This open source orchestrator community advocate lead is now the open source community advocate lead for Google.
The tech he was advocating for before Google was no other than Adam Jacobs's. Jacob's founded OpsCode.
This product features integrations with AWS Ops Works, Juniper and Cisco firewalls, Facebook etc.
Who is Nathan Harvey?
What is Chef?
Face tried to convert WhatsApp, post acquisition, from this operating system to Linux but failed twice due the stronger networking stack.
What is FreeBSD?
This open source database underpins AWS's Redshift which is built for Petabyte Scale Data warehousing and was invented by a Post Grad Student
What is PostGRESQL?
This open source foundation hosts bind, the open source DNS software underpinning the majority of the internet including the .com top level domain (tld).
It also maintains the globally distributed root F nameserver which handles billions of DNS lookups daily.
Bind is widely considered to be the most vulnerable, but performant, DNS software in wide spread use today.
What is the Internet Software Consortium (ISC)?
Baaron Schartz consulted on this large FAANG company's MySQL cluster which lead to his founding of VivedCortex a database monitoring company which includes support for AWS RDS and other database.
What is Facebook?
This co-founder of FreeBSD went on to found IXSystems the home of FreeNAS a market leader and sells rebranded Super Mirco FreeBSD gear world-wide
Who is Matt Olliander?
This open source operating system runs a large amount of Verisgn's DNS infrastructure.
Versign also controls the A root name server and the .com zone which is what allows it to highjack your browser when you type a site wrong
What is FreeBSD?
This open source language is the successor to Cold Fusion. panth.com used to host a Cold Fusion based e-mail that regularly overwhelmed AOLs e-mail servers at 100 billion+ per month way back in 1999.
Additionally, this language generally reports more security vulnerabilities than any other despite not being in as wide spread use as some.
Last most monitoring and some security software use this language including Tennable's Nessus
What is PHP?
This foundation is home to Kubernetes, one of the most popular pieces of software in the world
What is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
This Google predecessor used to host the FreeBSD Foundation who's open source operating system FreeBSD runs Netflix's CDN to this day.
This CDN is responsible for 33% of the US Internet usage and runs in AWS.
Scott Long previous Adaptec (hardware disk vendor) employee is the Lead Dev @ Netflix on this project and regular sends improvements directly back to FreeBSD itself.
What is Yahoo?
This Open Source Lab (OSL) maintains the majority of open source project resources in the US including the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
What is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL)?
These two (2) open source operating systems provide the foundation and vast amounts of present day code for Apple's Darwin operating system which is what Macs run.
What are Next and FreeBSD?
This open source technology allowed the Equifax breach but only because it hadn't been updated in several years despite the flaw having been fixed many years ago by one of the project maintainers.
What is Apache Struts?
These two colleges were some of the very first on the internet. Due to this, to this day each operate one of the 13 root name servers
What are UC Berkley and UMCP?
Following in Java's footsteps, after Oracle acquired this company which owned the worlds most popular open source database, it stopped allowing compliance test suites to prove compatibility.
What is Oracle?
This major open source foundation's creator resigned recently due to connections with Jeffery Epstien. This same founder is larger credited as the "Father of Open Source"
Who is Richard Stallman?
This operating is actually not an operating system but a super advanced File Manager.
This operating is what lead to Bill Gates rise to fame.
What is DOS?
This open source blogging software is the market majority share holder and is used by all verticals including T-Rex. It is responsible for orders of magnitude more breaches than any other blogging software and most other kinds of software.
What is WordPress?
This open source standards body is home to the HTTP specification
What is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
This non FAANG company now owns Github which provides version control for the vast majority of all projects (open and closed) source world wide.
Recently Github announced the move of this open source Package Manager which provides dependencies for this most widely used programing language in the world
What are Microsoft and NPMJS?
This predecessor to Philip as the VP of Apache Infrastructure went on co-found a startup called Cloudkick which was acquired by Rackspace.
From there he founded ScaleFT which implements Google's Beyond Corp model which is more commonly known as Zero Trust.
ScaleFT was bought by Okta, a clear leader in IDaaS, and in use by DHS where he is a Chief Architect
Who is Paul Querna?
The difference between these two operating systems are where they descend from and what is included (i.e. the kernel or the kernel + the userland
What are Unix and Linux?
butterfs is open source linux filesystem commonly referred to as "wife beater fs" because of pronunciation issues and was discontinued in Red Hat Linux, but another other open source file system's author actually did murder his wife and this file system is still in use today in the Linux kernel.
What is ReiserFS?
This open source foundation contains containerd. containerd is the vendor agnostic API that underpins docker containers and thus Kubernetes and the entire container ecosystem
What is the CNCF?