This article is shared from Huawei Cloud Community " [Pioneer Developers Talk on the Cloud] From love to deep cultivation, the top 10 open source software producers in the country explore "open source cloud upstream"" , author: Selected by Huawei Cloud Community.
Data from the "2022-2023 China Open Source Developer Survey Report" shows that only 2% of developers have never used open source, 49% of developers said they have participated in open source; 63% of developers have never earned income from open source. , more than 80% of open source developers are using love to generate electricity.
Embrace open source and turn your hobby into a career
As a new model that promotes technological innovation in software development, open source is widely loved by developers.
Guan Leiming, the founder of Weifang Leiming Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Leiming Cloud), is one of the many open source developers in China. He has been writing and contributing code to various open source projects since 2010. It is precisely because of his love for the open source field that he has released more than 40 open source projects and has become one of the Top 10 producers of open source software in the country.
In 2010, Guan Leiming released the first open source project - Xunxian WAP2.0, which is a system for building mobile websites and was released on China Webmaster Station. In the following months, the project was downloaded more than 1,000 times. Seeing someone using his work gave Guan Leiming great spiritual satisfaction, and he fell in love with open source. In 2015, Guan Leiming came into contact with the open source China Code Cloud, developed a game auxiliary tool in Java and put the source code on the code cloud. This became his first project released on the open source code hosting platform.
When open source meets “cloud”
In the process of doing open source, Guan Leiming encountered many problems. The team's capabilities were limited and he needed professional partners to work together to overcome difficulties in order to make better and more stable products. Guan Leiming found that Huawei Cloud's technical, business and ecological capabilities can promote the digital development of small and medium-sized enterprises like Leiming Cloud. In terms of technology, Huawei Cloud Developer Technical Service Experts (DTSE) can provide a lot of professional advice and help. For example, the Leiming Cloud team encountered problems such as high cost, slow delivery, and difficulty in monetization in the open source cloud website building system project.
- First, you need to purchase a large number of servers, storage, network and other resources, resulting in very high costs;
- The security and stability of the products developed are relatively poor, and they are prone to malicious attacks, and access lags are prone to occur during peak periods of website access;
- The project delivery cycle is long, and each time it requires technical personnel to complete a series of tasks such as development, operation and maintenance, deployment, testing and release before the project can go online.
This ultimately resulted in product delivery taking a week or two at a time.
Huawei Cloud DTSE has researched and answered the problems encountered by the Leiming Cloud team, and provided very detailed and specific usage methods and technical guidance:
- Through one-click deployment to the cloud, the system can save 45% of costs ;
- In terms of security, the website building system is deployed on Huawei Cloud OBS, achieving functions such as safety, reliability, and unlimited expansion. The overall data security and durability of the website can reach 99% ;
- Under the guidance of Huawei Cloud DTSE, the project team launched a one-hour rapid intelligent website construction solution based on Huawei Cloud LTS, NLPMT and other open technical capabilities .
Issues like this used to take a week or two to resolve. The Huawei Cloud team responded quickly to provide support. The issue was located and resolved quickly within one day, which was very efficient. During the cooperation, Guan Leiming felt respected, and he also felt Huawei Cloud's emphasis on and support for open source. Subsequently, it has been more closely integrated with some products of Huawei Cloud. Relying on Huawei Cloud to provide convenient and stable service components, and in conjunction with its own system, Leiming Cloud has developed several products such as cloud customer service, international translation support, etc., and has won many customers. The trust and recognition have enabled the team to receive more and more orders.
Not only that, in terms of commercialization, Huawei Cloud Store also provides Lei Mingyun with support and assistance such as cloud service resources. So far, 120+ enterprise deliveries have been completed through the cloud store.
In 2022, Guan Leiming participated in the "Huawei Cloud Open Source Ecosystem Developer Support Plan" and released the DataX for Huawei Cloud OBS plug-in. When developing this plug-in, he completed the development efficiently through Huawei Cloud technical documents. The plug-in not only gained Huawei Cloud fertile ground Yunchuang plans to open source its rights and interests, and it has also been put on the Huawei Cloud Store to support one-click deployment on the cloud by other developers.
"Currently, there are many open source projects that you can participate in in the Huawei Cloud Open Source Organization. After the project is completed and passed the review, you can leave your name in the software, be recognized by the Huawei Cloud Open Source Organization, and receive resource support and incentives." Guan Leiming He said, "With companies like Huawei Cloud, the domestic open source environment has been greatly improved in the past two years. Open source authors are no longer being exploited all the time, and open source is no longer considered to be not doing their job properly."
Let’s move forward together with Huawei Cloud and open source fellows.
In order to better help open source software developers, Huawei Cloud launched the Huawei Cloud Fertile Land Cloud Innovation Plan to encourage developers to carry out technological innovation based on Huawei Cloud and provide empowerment and support. Huawei Cloud is oriented to open source software tool chains and environments, open source application construction and open source Ecological components build these three key scenarios, provide technology, bonuses, activities and other support, and invite more developers to work together to build open source for HuaweiCloud.
Open source for Huawei Cloud means that developers connect open source software tools, open source applications and open source components with Huawei Cloud object storage OBS, data warehouse GaussDB (DWS), cloud container CCE and other cloud services, and at the same time, based on Terraform templates, put them on the Huawei Cloud Store. Support other developers to deploy and use open source components with one click. Developers who contribute will have the opportunity to receive Huawei Cloud Fertile Land Cloud Innovation Plan incentives, receive cloud service resource vouchers, which can be used for development and deployment, and provide product capability certification to developers, and also provide certification for products and services or solutions that have passed the certification. Provide marketing support.
Open source is an effective means of open innovation. In the face of the diverse digital era, only by jointly building an open and prosperous open source ecosystem can we promote the vigorous development of technology and activate industrial innovation. Huawei Cloud is also continuing to increase its ecological investment in developers to help developers expand their personal influence and obtain business returns. "In cooperating with Huawei Cloud, I feel that I am not fighting alone on the road to open source. In the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, we small and medium-sized enterprises use low-cost, strong service technology products on the cloud. A new breakthrough has been achieved and we have entered a period of rapid development." Guan Leiming said.
In a world of open collaboration, every contribution deserves reward. I pay tribute to this group of open source devotees who are persistent in moving forward!
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