Using high quality open source components to build maintainable software stacks at iconnect360 Speaker: Ashik

1. Ashik Salahudeen
Open Source Software
@iconnect360

2. What is Open Source Software ?

3. Software Released
with guarantees

4. FREEDOM #0
TO RUN THE PROGRAM FOR ANY
PURPOSE

5. FREEDOM #1
The freedomto study how
the program works, and
change it to make it do what
you wish.

6. FREEDOM #2
The freedomto redistribute
copies so you can help your
neighbour.

7. FREEDOM #3
The freedom to improve the program, and
release your improvements (and modified
versions in general) to the public, so that the
whole community benefits.

8. Open Source Initiative
• Founded in 1997.
• Bring Free and Open Source Software to
Commercial entities.
• Bruce Perens, Eric S Raymond, Linus
Torvalds.

9. Things To remember
• Look at the size of the community
• Look at the License
• Check with your fellow developers, mentors,
Reddit/StackOverflow/HackerNews ?

10. iConnect360 Stack

11. We are a Microsoft
shop

12. Why Open Source
• Free as in Free Roti Canai
• High quality, peer reviewed components
• We are developers !!!

13. Where ?

14. • Software Infrastructure.
• Frameworks, Toolkits & languages.
• Source code & Release management.
• Project management Tools.

15. Core Infrastructure

16. • Our websites
• Web services
• Internal tools

17. Core Components

18. • Powers our
websites.
• Proxy services.

19. • Stores standing
data
• Internal tools
• Wordpress DB

20. • Caching
• Queueing
• ServiceStack, jedis

21. • ELK Stack
• Log aggregation

23. Core Development Platform

25. Javascript/CSS toolkit

26. Code, Tests & Release
management

27. Reviewboard
• Code management
• Code Review

28. • Build automation
• Desktop installer

29. • Bug Tracking
• TestLink for Test
Case management

30. • Taiga.io Manages
our SCRUM and
Sprint planning

31. Way forward

32. Microsoft-Open Source
• .Net framework is open source (MIT license)
• Katana & Owin
• Typescript, F#
• Visual Studio Code/Online

33. Pipe Dreams
• .Net on GNU/Linux becomes first class
citizen.
• Emacs/vim/IntelliJ Idea support
• Ditch Windows Servers

34. THANK YOU