Uber, a taxi aggregation platform operates around the globe. It was started as monolith application and later re-architected as bunch of microservices, which gives them scalability. Uber uses lot of open source tools and they have contributed quite a lot projects back to the community. This article is about analyzing Uber's open source technology stack.

Uber's open source technology stack

Stackoverflow is one of most widely used Q&A platform. It is the default choice of developers. It has over 100 million page views in a month and its Google page rank is 60. Check out its open source technology stack, the tools used to build such a popular website. Stackoverflow uses open source projects and also contributes to it.

Stackoverflow Open Source Technology Stack

WhatsApp is a most widely used cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. Users can send text, images videos, audio for free. It almost replaced SMS. It changed the way people interact with each other. Lets check out the technology behind WhatsApp

Open Source Technology Stack used in WhatsApp

OpenJDK is the open source implementation of Java Standard Edition. Oracle (Sun) JDK implementation is going to be based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are almost similar. There are ready made binaries available for Linux distribution but you may need to build OpenJDK on windows.

Free and Open source tools to build OpenJDK in Windows

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM, is a fully integrated application suite that supports eCommerce, Customer Relationship Management, Warehouse and Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, and Financial Management to Business Intelligence and mobility integration out-of-the-box. This article discusses about the open source software used to build Opentaps ERP.

Open Source Technology Stack used in Opentaps ERP

Zimbra is a Enterprise messaging and collaboration software. It is a good alternative to Microsoft Exchange server. Zimbra is a Email Server but they have not written anything related to SMTP server, rather they have integrated well know open source email server in to its package. Zimbra is a system of well connected / integrated multiple open source software which delivers enterprise quality to it. This article explains most important components which helps to build the enterprise product.

Zimbra - Enterprise Email Server Stack

Twitter uses many open source products and also contributes most of the code to open source. Here is the list of open source products used by Twitter. This list does not include the projects sponsored by twitter. 

Open source products used in Twitter

Facebook a leading social networking website predominantly uses open source technologies to build its application. Here is the list of open source products used and contributed by Facebook.

Open Source products used in Facebook

LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. LinkedIn handles millions of searches as well as hundreds of thousands of updates daily. They sponsored many projects to open source. Here are the list of open source products used by LinkedIn.

Open source projects used in LinkedIn

Email is most important in any organization. Lot of business are happening via Email. This article discusses about the end to end complete Email solution for an organization. What an organization requires? Email spam filtering, Email Server, Email Archiving and Email client. If all are open source then complete solution could be achieved free of cost.

Complete Email Solution for SMB

Wikipedia is a multilingual, collaboratively edited encyclopedia. It is one of the busiest site in the world. It has more than 8 million articles and accessed by millions of users around the world. This article briefly discuss about the open source software used in Wikipedia.

Open source projects used to in Wikipedia

Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything.  Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 34 billion posts to date. Below is the list of open source used in Tumbler.

Open Source Products used in Tumbler

Barack Obama election fundraising campaign was hosted online and the platform was built using open source products. The campaign stayed for 6 months and it has more than 8 million page views. This article explains the open source products used to build the platform.

Open Source used in Barack Obama Campaign

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system originally written by Linus
Torvalds. Git Server is initially written for Linux and later ported to Windows, Solaris and Mac. This article provides pointers to various Git server , Git clients, plugin and code review tools for Windows. It will be a Git complete solution stack for Windows.

Git Stack for Windows. Git Server, Client, Plugin and Code review tools for Windows.

Subversion version control system is most popular and widely used. Windows users always want easy to install, easy to configure and easy to use applications. This article explains about few set of tools which used in combination will bring you complete Subversion solution in windows.

Simple and Complete Subversion solution in Windows

Email is the primary way of communication. Small organization which hosts their website / any other application from a third party hosting service providers may require this email stack.

Simple Mail Stack for Linux Hosted Environment

SourceForge.NET is most popular and widely used Forge. It helps to host software projects. It has integrated support for Wiki, Forum, Tracker and Full text search. The code base named allura, is completely built on open source stack. This article explains few important one used to build SourceForge.NET.

Open source software used in SourceForge.NET

Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love. It is a social networking site 
  where users could pin images and write a note for that. It is now currently serving billions of pages every month. Check out the open source products used in Pinterest.

Open Source Products used in Pinterest

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