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Invisible Work of OpenStack: Eventlet Migration
  • News
  • Open Source Software
  • 25 Mar 2025

Hear from Jay, an Open Source Software Engineer, on tackling technical debt in OpenStack. As technology evolves, outdated code becomes inefficient and harder to maintain. Jay highlights the importance of refactoring legacy systems to keep open-source projects sustainable and future-proof.

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Going 15 Percent Faster with Graph-Based Type-checking (part two)
  • News
  • Open Source Software
  • 13 Jan 2025

Hear from Florian, Open-Source Software Engineer, in the second part of this two part series, on the challenges and breakthroughs of an internal G-Research initiative aimed at enhancing the .NET developer experience at scale.

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Going 15 Percent Faster with Graph-Based Type-checking (part one)
  • Open Source Software
  • 19 Dec 2024

Hear from Florian, Open-Source Software Engineer, on the challenges and breakthroughs behind Project Velocity, an internal initiative aimed at enhancing the .NET developer experience.

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How G-Research Invests in Open Source for Long-Term Impact
  • Open Source Software
  • 14 Oct 2024

Learn more about our investment in Open Source and the intended long-term impact of our approach on the OS universe.

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Observing Spark Aggregates: Cheap Metrics from Datasets
  • Open Source Software
  • 06 Feb 2024

Hear from one of our Open-Source Engineers and discover the crucial role of data assumptions in pipelines and the necessity of monitoring dataset characteristics before processing to ensure downstream reliability.

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PySpark apps with dependencies: Managing Python dependencies in code
  • Open Source Software
  • 24 Jan 2024

Hear from one of our Open-Source Engineers and learn how to streamline the deployment of Python Spark applications on clusters like Yarn or Kubernetes.

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Enhancing Spark’s UI with Job Descriptions
  • Open Source Software
  • 12 Dec 2023

Hear from one of our Open-Source Engineers on how job descriptions improve the readability of Spark UI and highlight some of the caveats that exist with multi-threaded Spark applications.

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The Terminal Escapes: Engineering unexpected execution from command line interfaces
  • Open Source Software
  • 04 Oct 2023

At G-Research we have many developers using different tools for their work, and this includes many different terminals. Our open source team decided it was worth spending time looking for security issues in various terminals and related programs.

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ParquetSharp – What we’ve learned and how it’s even better
  • Open Source Software
  • 16 Aug 2023

G-Research has been using ParquetSharp in production since 2018. We’ve made numerous improvements to the product thanks to our learnings from running it at scale inside of the datacenter, and thanks to the contributions of the community of engaged and enthusiastic users.

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You don’t need to be a colossus to contribute to Kubernetes
  • Open Source Software
  • 15 Aug 2023

As Kubernetes contributors, we often get asked whether you need to be a member of a Big Tech organization to contribute to the project. The resounding answer to this is no, you don’t, and G-Research is a brilliant example of that in action.

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