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Couchbase provides the world's most complete, most scalable and best performing NoSQL database. Couchbase Server is designed from a simple yet bold vision: build the first and best, general-purpose NoSQL database. That goal has resulted in an industry leading solution that includes a shared nothing architecture, a single node-type, and a built in caching layer, true auto-sharding. Couchbase Server and all Couchbase Mobile products are open source projects.

Facebook is the world's larger social network with over 900 million active users. Founded in 2004, Facebook¹s mission is to make the world more open and connected. As an employer, Facebook strives to hire the best people who want to move fast and make an impact. The company empowers people in every way it can to allow our employees to focus on what they love to do. People around the world use Facebook everyday to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what¹s going on, and to share and express what matters to them.

O'Reilly media is the world’s most comprehensive technology and business learning platform. Learn the way you learn best -- on your own, with a group, or with a guide.

OpsGenie is an alerting and on-call management solution for dev & ops teams. We provide the tools needed to design actionable alerts, manage on-call schedules & escalations, and ensure that the right people are notified at the right time, using multiple notification methods.

SUSE®, a Micro Focus company, provides and supports enterprise-grade Linux and open source solutions with exceptional service, value and flexibility. With partners and communities, we innovate, adapt and deliver secure Linux, cloud infrastructure and storage software to create solutions for mixed enterprise IT environments. We help customers harness the benefits and power of an open enterprise that can empower their possibilities.

Organizations worldwide use Black Duck Software’s industry-leading products to automate the processes of securing and managing open source software, eliminating the pain related to security vulnerabilities, open source license compliance and operational risk. Black Duck is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and has offices in San Jose, CA, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.

Open source software is a strategic priority for HPE. HPE creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. HPE not only extensively uses open source within the company but also contributes our expertise to hundreds of open source projects worldwide. To learn more visit the HPE open source community page: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/opensource/community.html

KubeGrid is an everything-as-code based Kubernetes automation platform built ground up to help developers deploy and mange any stack on any cloud-provider.

Linux Academy is the foremost online Linux and cloud training platform and community. The Linux Academy was founded on the belief that providing high-quality, in-depth training should be available at an affordable price. We're industry leaders in quality training, provided services, and student certification passes. Our goal is to change lives by teaching Linux and cloud technology to the tens of thousands of students that learn at the Linux Academy.

NATS (www.nats.io) is a family of open source messaging products that are tightly integrated but can be deployed independently for use-cases such as mobile, IoT, microservices and cloud native applications. NATS was created by Derek Collison, Founder and CEO at Apcera (www.apcera.com) in response to the market need for a simple and high performance messaging solution.

Powering half of the world's busiest sites, NGINX is the heart of the modern web. We help you deploy and deliver your sites and apps with performance, reliability, security, and scale. We do this by providing a complete application delivery platform, NGINX Plus: combining load balancing, content caching, web serving, security controls, and monitoring in one easy to use software package.

PennyMac (NMLS #35953) is a top national mortgage lender, PennyMac is committed to providing its customers with a range of innovative solutions to help them purchase, refinance or simply remain in their homes. Whether they’re new to the home loan process or experienced buyers specifically seeking a competitive jumbo, FHA or VA loan, PennyMac is dedicated to offering competitive rates and superior service.

Platform9 provides open source-as-a-service for enterprises that need faster and easier ways to manage cloud infrastructure across multiple platforms. Unlike do-it-yourself or legacy solutions, Platform9 delivers best-of-breed cloud infrastructure like OpenStack and Kubernetes as SaaS-managed solutions to reduce cost and time to value, all while avoiding being locked into a single vendor ecosystem. Platform9 helpsDevOps and IT teams focus on solving core business problems while automating much of the set-up and management process on the back end.

PSSC Labs is not just another computer company. Our revolutionary open architecture based servers, clusters and storage platforms are uniquely engineered to offer maximum application performance with the absolute lowest total cost of ownership. PSSC Labs 25+ years experience delivering truly turnkey HPC and Big Data solutions to leading organizations including NASA, Caltech, Rubicon Project, OpenX and many more make PSSC Labs the right choice for your computing environment.

Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

Resin.io is a container-based platform to develop, deploy, and manage software running on embedded Linux devices - quickly, safely, and at scale. We enable users across a variety of use cases, including retail, smart buildings, home automation, and industrials, to get to market faster, improve security, develop iteratively, and deliver more value to end users. Resin.io builds on open technologies and is committed to open sourcing its own platform.

SparkPost is the the world's number one email infrastructure provider, whose customers--including LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, Salesforce, Marketo, Pinterest, Zillow and Comcast--send over 3 trillion messages a year, over 25% of the world's legitimate email. Our software outperforms every other cloud or on-premises alternative, and these companies choose us to provide the deliverability, speed and insight they need to drive customer engagement for their business. Follow us on Twitter @SparkPost or go to sparkpost.com.

Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the global leader in cybersecurity. Operating one of the world’s largest cyber intelligence networks, we see more threats, and protect more customers from the next generation of attacks. We help companies, governments and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives.

VictorOps is the real-time incident management platform focusing on incident lifecycle management and collaboration for IT and DevOps teams. The solution combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day.

Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor availability and performance of IT infrastructure components. Zabbix is used by a vast number of companies, who have chosen it due to real scalability, high and robust performance, ease of use and extremely low costs of ownership. Apart from that we offer a wide range of professional services designed to fit every customer's unique business demands including implementation, integration, custom development and consulting services as well as various training programs.

Chef is changing the way companies build and deliver applications, services and infrastructure. Born with the DevOps movement, Chef has distilled the experiences of successful web innovators into patterns that characterize the DevOps workflow. These patterns have been incorporated into Chef’s comprehensive suite of automation products, making Chef your partner on the journey to DevOps. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. www.chef.io

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast growing web property, technology ISV or large enterprise, MySQL can cost-effectively help you deliver high performance, scalable database applications.

Signal Sciences is the industry’s first Web Protection Platform (WPP) featuring our Next Generation Web Application Firewall (NGWAF) technology. Signal Sciences provides unparalleled security visibility that empowers engineering, operations, and security teams.

Docker, Inc. is the company behind the Docker open source platform and the chief sponsor of the Docker ecosystem. Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources.

Verizon Digital Media Services brings together world-class technology to prepare, deliver and display content — so users can watch and enjoy on their terms. The purpose of our platform is simple. It delivers next-generation digital experiences for today’s demanding users, whether it be their favorite TV shows, catching up with friends via social media or shopping for the latest gadgets. Combining our Uplynk, Edgecast and Volicon services, our platform easily handles your users’ appetite for instant, secure and always-on media, anytime, anywhere.

Linux Journal, first published in 1994, is the original publication of the global Linux community, delivering to readers the advice and inspiration they need to get the most out of their Linux systems.

Opensource.com publishes stories about creating, adopting, and sharing open source solutions. Visit Opensource.com to learn more about how the open source way is improving technologies, education, business, government, health, law, entertainment, humanitarian efforts, and more. Submit a story idea, email us, or chat with us in Freenode IRC (#opensource.com) to learn more about our community. Find us on Twitter: @opensourceway