Open-Source

Another Year, Another FOSDEM FOSDEM—the annual pilgrimage to Brussels for a weekend of open-source brilliance, hallway track magic, and the inevitable sleep deprivation. This year’s Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting was, as always, a whirlwind of ideas, people, and tech so bleeding-edge it practically needed bandages. But for me? It was all about seeing friends. Catching up, syncing, and squeezing in as many conversations as humanly possible. As we always say—the hallway track is the real conference. I’m beyond grateful for the people I managed to see, and equally bummed about those I missed. But with a toddler waiting at home, even carving out this limited time was a logistical miracle. ...

We open sourced drone-cache, a plugin for the popular Continuous Delivery platform Drone. It allows you to cache dependencies and interim files between builds to reduce your build times. This post explains why we are using Drone, why we needed a cache plugin, and what I learned while trying to release drone-cache as open source software. Read on for the story behind drone-cache or if you want to jump into action directly, go to the github.com/meltwater/drone-cache, and try it for yourself. ...