4 posts tagged with "Open Source"

In the fast-paced world of DevOps, safely accessing production databases is a crucial competency that balances operational efficiency with stringent security measures. This comprehensive guide explores DevOps database access best practices, ensuring your engineering teams can swiftly address issues without compromising on security or system integrity. We'll cover the importance of giving engineers access, the place of migration tools, analytics, and best practices around maintenance and operational tasks. We'll also look at the role of the Four-Eyes Principle in this post.

Kviklet as an application already allows you to execute arbitrary SQL statements on your database. However a feedback we heard multiple times is that using a simple web tool for query execution is not the same as e.g. a designated DB access software like Datagrip.

We've decided to license all our code under MIT and make it fully open-source. With this decision also comes the realization that it is unlikely we will establish a company based on Kviklet. In this post we are sharing some learnings from our journey and what's next for Kviklet.

Open source is core to the modern engineering world. In one way or another, everything runs on Linux or Android, or at the very least, is developed with tools that are available as open source. This hasn't gone unnoticed in the startup world, companies are being founded with a core product that is open source, sometimes funded purely based on GitHub Stars with no active revenue streams.