Open Future Blog by Syone

Ask a colleague about their vacations, and they will probably greet you with an empathic: “Short!" Time flies when you're having fun.

That's a typical conversation between colleagues after returning from vacation. You're living on a permanent Sunday, and suddenly, Monday slaps you in the face. You need to switch from waking up to sunlight on your face to the sound of an alarm clock (the worst sound ever, in my opinion).

You must trade cocktails and ice creams for coffee on the office balcony and your flip-flops and jams for traffic jams. It’s a lot to handle, and these feelings are more common than you think.

For you to quickly get an idea of where we’re heading, here is the TL;DR version about microservices, some of its main benefits and why it’s a big thing:

• Quickly scale and deliver new features and upgrades to market
• Rapidly iterate to find your next business model
• Improve and empower developer engagement

With this in mind, let’s take a step back and discuss a bit about monolithic apps, the counterpart to microservices.

Monolithic or packaged apps: why they’re getting old

The traditional way of building enterprise applications, using a monolithic approach, is becoming problematic as applications get larger and more complex or when your business needs to make adaptations to its product/service in order to respond to demand.

If there is a buzzword going through a greater moment than “open source” it would probably be “productivity”. If you’re not hacking your productivity, improving it or replicating the tips and secrets of at least 10 highly-productive people then you’re getting left behind (or you were really lucky on your LinkedIn feed)!

Happily, open source productivity tools can help you. While most big companies operating in these areas are either expensive or restrict, the open source alternatives provide great accessibility and power. Best of all, whether you’re a freelancer trying to get work done in your own time, a small business aiming to cut costs or an enterprise organisation wanting complete control, the same solutions can work on any cases.

Here we’ll run through a selection of some of the best open source productivity tools available today and how exactly they might be able to help you.

In order to build the “Operating System” of the country, building simpler and more efficient services for the citizens, the Public Administration and businesses, the Italian Government created Team Gigitale, the country’s Digital Transformation Team. Following this initiative, a project to develop a user-friendly app was born.

Open Source can be defined as a philosophy that promotes the free access and distribution of a program, product or software.

It could be called as a manipulated and modified technology that changes a piece of the original software to make the program or application work as the user wants.