September 2024

Elasticsearch and Kibana are now open source again with the addition of the AGPL license option. Elastic believes this move will reduce confusion and strengthen their open-source commitment. The decision comes three years after changing the license due to issues with AWS, which ultimately resolved market confusion and bolstered the AWS partnership. Existing licenses (ELv2…

gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework with widespread language support, but it has its downsides. Key issues include a steep learning curve with complex terminology, reliance on HTTP/2 which isn’t fully supported by browsers, lack of early standardized JSON mapping, and challenges with finite message sizes requiring complex implementation. Furthermore, gRPC’s tooling and community engagement…