Open MPI
Open MPI consortium · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source implementation of the MPI message-passing standard used to run tightly coupled parallel programs across the nodes of a cluster
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Open MPI consortium · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source implementation of the MPI message-passing standard used to run tightly coupled parallel programs across the nodes of a cluster
OpenAI · Coding agents & AI IDEs
OpenAI's coding agent: an open-source Rust terminal CLI plus IDE extension, desktop app and cloud agent, signed in with a ChatGPT plan or an API key
OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access
Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling
Linux Foundation (OpenTofu project) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Community fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, keeping the HCL language, provider ecosystem and state model under the MPL-2.0 license
OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization
macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop
John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting
Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters
Microsoft · Testing & QA
Microsoft's browser automation and end-to-end testing framework driving Chromium, Firefox and WebKit from one API in TypeScript, Python, Java and .NET
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization
Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI
PostGIS Project Steering Committee (OSGeo) · GIS & mapping
Spatial extension for PostgreSQL adding geometry, geography and raster types with indexing and hundreds of SQL functions
PostgreSQL Global Development Group · Relational databases
Open-source object-relational database server with a large extension ecosystem (PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB) and broad SQL coverage
Postman, Inc. · API development & tooling
Commercial API platform for designing, testing, documenting and monitoring HTTP and other APIs through a desktop and web client with cloud-synced workspaces
Prefect Technologies, Inc. · ETL/ELT & orchestration
Python workflow orchestration library and server where decorated functions become observable, retryable flows, with Prefect Cloud as hosted option
Prettier project · Testing & QA
Opinionated code formatter for JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, Markdown, YAML and more that reprints code from its syntax tree with few options
Prisma Data, Inc. · Web frameworks & UI
TypeScript ORM with a declarative schema language, generated type-safe client and migration tooling, from the company that also offers Prisma Postgres and related hosted services
Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing
Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub
Prometheus Authors / Cloud Native Computing Foundation · Monitoring & observability
Pull-based metrics monitoring system and time-series database with the PromQL query language, service discovery and the Alertmanager component
Promptfoo, Inc. · Prompting, evaluation & observability
Open-source, local-first CLI and library for evaluating prompts, models, RAG pipelines and agents, with automated red teaming and CI integration
pytest-dev team · Testing & QA
Python testing framework with plain assert statements, fixtures, parametrization and a large plugin ecosystem, the de facto standard for Python test suites
Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes
General-purpose, dynamically typed programming language with a large standard library and the dominant ecosystem for data science and machine learning
QuantConnect Corporation · Financial analysis & investing
Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading
Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing
Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc
R Foundation / R Core Team · Programming languages & runtimes
Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, with the CRAN package archive and a strong base in academic statistics and econometrics
Broadcom · Messaging & queues
Open-source message broker in Erlang supporting AMQP 0-9-1 and 1.0, MQTT, STOMP and Streams, with routing, acknowledgements and quorum queues
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