My idea of the “Apache Way” is something like this: earn trust, equal participation, open collaboration

— FeiLiangHong

ApacheCon is the official global series of conferences of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ApacheCon is one of the most celebrated events in the open source world and one of the early days of the open source movement.

Back in 1998, before the ASF was founded, ApacheCon had attracted participants at all levels to explore the “technologies of tomorrow” in more than 300 Apache projects and their various communities. It was also during this session that the developers of HTTPD services got together and decided to form the Apache Software Foundation.

ApacheCon is held annually in Europe or North America and is a great opportunity for Apache developers to meet, discuss, and share ideas. Demonstrate the latest developments and innovations in the Apache project through hands-on presentations, keynote speeches, real-life case studies, training, hackathons, and more.

This year, in order to better serve the rapidly growing number of Apache users and contributors in Asia Pacific, the ApacheCon Organizing Committee and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon Asia, the first online conference for Asia Pacific time zones, will be held on August 6, 2021.

In order to give you a better understanding of Open Source and ApacheCon Asia, SegmentFault will interview some Track chairs or conference lecturers to let you know the background of the conference preparation and the stories of these experts.

Today, we’re going to have an interview with Leonghong Fei, chief architect of Amazon Cloud Technology.

The following is SegmentFault Sifter’s interview with Fei Lianghong:

About Leonghong Fei

Leonghong Fei, Chief Architect of Amazon Cloud Technology. He has been working in the fields of software architecture, program development and technology distribution for more than 20 years. He is a frequent speaker at various technical conferences and is an avid participant in several technical communities. He specializes in the development of Web applications, mobile applications and machine learning, and has also been involved in the design, development and project management of several large software projects. Currently focused on cloud computing and the Internet and other related technology fields, committed to helping Chinese developers to build a new generation of Internet applications based on cloud computing.

The story of Phil’s first encounter with open source

I first encountered the Linux operating system in 1994, when I remember using a Linux distribution called Slackware. It was probably the first open source software I ever used. Since then, open source software has become an essential part of work, especially software development. For example, the Linux operating system, the Vim /Emacs editor, the Python/Go/Rust programming language, MySQL, Spark and other projects I use today are some of the most important tools for my work.

What have individuals and companies gained from participating in open source and contributing to the Apache community?

It can be said that open source software has become an important cornerstone of cloud computing. The widespread use of open source software as a developer has helped cloud computing grow and evolve rapidly; At the same time, the experience of using open source software in the cloud is feeding back the maturity of open source software.

“The Apache Way” as he understands it?

My idea of “Apache Way” includes something like this:

  • Earn Trust: Everyone has the opportunity to participate in the community. Everyone’s impact comes from what they contribute to the community. The recognition and trust of the community can be earned through hard work.
  • Equal participation: Participating in the community is the individual, not the organization behind the person. The flat structure of the community determines that roles are equal regardless of title. The community’s code of conduct calls for mutual respect
  • Open collaboration: A community is a virtual organization where all communication related to code and decisions is publicly accessible to ensure collaboration

Leonghong Fei and ApacheCon Asia

The topic of my presentation is Apache Hudi on AWS, an open source data management framework that simplifies incremental data processing and data pipeline development. I’ll show you how to deploy and use Apache Hudi in the cloud, which can handle multiple read or write cases, and Hudi will use Apache Parquet and Apache Avro to manage the underlying data stored on S3, among other practices.

I hope the audience will understand how to use Apache Hudi in the cloud for scenarios such as processing streaming data from sensors and other IoT devices or implementing a Change Data Capturing (CDC) system.

Join us at ApacheCon Asia!

Come and join us at ApacheCon Asia!

About Amazon Web Servbice

Since its inception, Amazon Web Servbice has been the best place for developers to build and run open source software in the cloud. Amazon is proud to support open source projects, foundations, and partners. Amazon believes open source is good for every developer and is committed to bringing the value of open source to developers and Amazon’s operational excellence to the open source community. Amazon’s open source projects are as follows: Babelfish for PostgreMSQl, Eks Distro for BottleLocket, Aaws Distro for Openelemetry, Firecracker and OpenSearch, among others.

About ApacheCon

ApacheCon is the official global conference series of the Apache Software Foundation. Since 1998, ApacheCon has been attracting participants at all levels, exploring “today’s technology of tomorrow” in more than 350 Apache projects and their various communities. In 2020 and 2021, the ApacheCon event will provide a virtual showcase of ubiquitous Apache projects and emerging innovations through conferences, keynote speeches, real-world case studies, community events, and more, all online and free of cost. For more information, please visit http://apachecon.com/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon.

About Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Founded in 1999, the Apache Software Foundation is the largest open source Foundation in the world, managing more than 227 million lines of code and providing more than $20 billion worth of Software to the public, 100% free. ASF’s all-volunteer community has grown from its original 21 founders overseeing The Apache HTTP server to more than 850 individual members and 200 project management committees who work with more than 8,200 submitters through ASF’s “The Apache Way “, Successfully led over 350 Apache projects and initiatives. Apache software is an integral part of almost all end-user computing devices, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices for enterprise and mission-critical applications. The Apache project powers much of the Internet, manages terabytes of data, performs terabit operations, and stores billions of objects in almost every industry. The commercially friendly and relaxed Apache License v2 is an open source industry standard that has helped launch multi-billion dollar companies and benefited countless users around the world. ASF is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors, Including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cloudera, Comcast, Confluent, and Didi Chuxing, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Namebase, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Reprise Software, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media and Workday. For more information, please visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF.

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