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Apache HugeGraph is a fully open source graph database stack: the database, distributed mode, analytics, web UI, and the HugeGraph-AI toolkit, all under one Apache license and one community. In this episode, contributor Himanshu Verma explains why graphs matter for AI: ordinary retrieval finds text that looks similar, but some questions are about how things are connected, and a graph lets the mode...

“Responsible” means aligning the Foundation-wide use of AI with the ASF’s greater mission of providing software for the public good. That’s our raison d’être. Prefer video? That’s here: https://youtu.be/DgQtZzeHX2w The Responsible AI (RAI) Initiative is one of the newest efforts at the Apache Software Foundation. In this PlusOne conversation, recorded at Communi...

Apache Polaris is the open source metadata catalog for the data lakehouse — a vendor-neutral implementation of the Iceberg REST Catalog spec. In this episode, Rich Bowen speaks with PMC members Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Dremio) and Yufei Gu (Snowflake) about how two competing companies came together under Apache governance to build a shared standard, the project’s extraordinary release velocity...

Rich Bowen speaks with Jinwoo Hwang about Apache Geode, the distributed in-memory data management platform that delivers low-latency, scalable data access for high-performance applications. In a rare story of open source revival, Jinwoo describes how Geode — originally born as GemFire in 2002 and donated to the ASF in 2015 — declined into inactivity by 2023 and was voted for retirement, only to be...

Tim Saucer, PMC member and primary maintainer of Apache DataFusion’s Python bindings, joins PlusOne to talk about how he went from frustrated Spark user to open source maintainer — and how the project is using LLM-powered “skills” to keep its Python API in full parity with the upstream Rust library. He walks through the three developer-facing skills they’ve built (expose ne...

Andrew Lamb, PMC Chair of Apache DataFusion, explains how this open source query engine lets teams build specialized analytic databases without reinventing SQL from scratch. We cover how DataFusion grew out of Apache Arrow, why it split into its own top-level project, how it attracted nearly 1,000 contributors, and what the rise of AI coding agents means for an embeddable database engine. If you&#...

In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. Emmanuel Lecharny has been around the ASF for a long time, but this is his first term on the board. He discusses some of his backstory, and his priorities for this board term.   https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Emmanuel-Lecharny-Board-of-Directors....

In the March board meeting, the Apache Software Foundation seated a new board of directors, which included three new members. One of them, Chris Dutz, had served a few terms before. In this interview, he talks about his priorities for the coming year on the board. The ASF Board – https://www.apache.org/foundation/leadership Prefer video? That’s on our YouTube channel . https://plusone....

Apache Grails recently graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. But it’s far from a new project, having been started 20 years ago! James Fredley, and James Daugherty from the Grails PMC talk about why they came to Apache, along with many other topics. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Grails_render.mp3 Links: Grails Release process documen...

A chat with several Airflow community members – Amogh Desai, Jarek Potiuk, Jens Scheffler and Rajesh Bishundeo – about the Airflow 3.x release, building collaborative community, and working with a broad set of vendors. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Airflow3x.mp3 More about Airflow: https://airflow.apache.org/ Prefer video? That’s on YouTube .

In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects they’ll be working on. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DaveFisherTooling.mp3 Prefer video? That’s on YouTube . More info: Tooling: https://tooling.apache.org Apache Trusted Release Platform: https://tooling.apache.org/trusted-release.html Quart: https://github....

Danny Angus is the new VP of Infrastructure. In this interview he discusses some of the priorities for the coming year. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Danny-Angus-VP-Infra.mp3 Prefer just video? That’s on YouTube . Read more about the ASF Infrastructure team .

I talked with Matt Pavlovich about the recent release of 6.1.7, and we also talked bout 6 in general, and what’s on the roadmap for the future. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ActiveMQ_Classic_render1.mp3 This is the second ActiveMQ video in two weeks, since ActiveMQ has two active sub-projects. See also the Artemis video  from last week. Prefer video? That’s HERE...

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis released 2.42.0 recently, and I spoke with Clebert about what’s in it, and what’s next. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Artemis-2.42.0-render1.mp3 Prefer video? That’s HERE ActiveMQ website Previous ActiveMQ videos: [ April 2007 ], [ September 2021 ]

Apache Shiro is powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Shiro 2.0.5 released on July 7th 2025, and we have Lenny Primak with us to discuss what’s in it, and what’s next for the project. https://plusone.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Apache_Shiro_2.0.5.mp3 Prefer video? That’s HERE W...