OSS Usage and Hacker Culture in Internet Companies
summary
An internet company serving ~80 million members and 13 million quarterly buyers explains how it uses open‑source software (GitHub, Apache/GPL/MIT licensed tools) and an internal culture of “hacker” openness to handle extreme loads (a past 10× traffic spike) and prevent outages during large sales. The company describes releasing internal projects (a key‑value store and filesystem), maintaining licensing guidelines, training and legal processes, and treating external collaboration as a repeatable innovation engine.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00OSS and hacker culture
- 3:54Rakuten’s scale
- 7:21Why companies adopt OSS
- 12:09OSS models evolution
- 16:55Hacker ethics
- 21:52OSS innovation engine
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