We take a deep dive into the benefits of version control and version control systems. Learn more about versioning. Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

The arms control community was outraged by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty in May 2020. The treaty enhances transparency and builds confidence between the ...

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. But it definitely happens because, ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

O'Reilly Media author and VP of Developer Experience for lakeFS, helping teams create cost-effective data systems and ML pipelines. Data is the backbone of every business organization today, and its ...

2025 kicked off with the arrival of DeepSeek-R1. The Chinese-built AI model crashed onto the AI scene in January, sending Big Tech into meltdown and, importantly, putting open source on the map like ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

The market research suggests that commercialization of open source will make it expensive compared to proprietary solutions, but the facts don't bear out this assertion. Matt Asay is a veteran ...