Sustainability in the Age of Local LLMs: Who’s Watching the Electricity Bill?

tl;dr The rise of AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, has been transformative, making advanced technology accessible and widely used. However, with their growing adoption comes a pressing concern: the sustainability of their energy consumption. This article explores a practical approach to evaluating the power usage of different LLMs using a sample chatbot […]

A Path to a More Sustainable IT by Effective Power Monitoring

The Problem It’s getting worse. Every day. The global emissions of carbon dioxide are still increasing , while our global budget to stay in the range of 1.5° C and 2° C is rapidly exhausting. The main emissions are produced by burning fossil fuels for energy generation, transportation and industrial production. Another big source of […]

Why to embrace Data as a Product & Data Mesh

The potential of AI has been acknowledged for years, along with the understanding that data is the key driver of this potential. This realization sparked a gold rush to amass data, a pursuit driven more by the allure of future possibilities than by practical use cases. Consequently, this rush resulted in piles of rubble rather […]

Review of 2023

OpenSourcerers 2023 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting articles covering a wide range of topics. There are 52 articles available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s products and other OpenSource technologies. Your Opensourcerers blog editors followed along of course! As we come from varying backgrounds […]

Empowering Tomorrow’s Innovators: Red Hat’s Commitment to WRO and STEM Education

At Red Hat, we develop enterprise software through an open-source development model. This implies that communities play a pivotal role in shaping everything we do – from our products and culture to the solutions we provide to our customers. Naturally, communities are at the center of our attention, and it is in our best interest […]

Dynatrace & Red Hat – Unveiling the Automated Remediation Revolution

This blog elaborates on how to discover issues before they occur and have a quicker root cause detection.
React on exception right away in an automated fashion. And with that reduce operational costs and enable faster delivery and MTRS time.

Deep dive into a scalable enterprise integration platform with MuleSoft and OpenShift

This article shows how MuleSoft’s Runtime Fabric (RTF) deployed to Red Hat OpenShift delivers a modern containerized API solution.

Camel K: Integrate Systems with Microservices and Serverless

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, August 2023 Tested with OpenShift 4.13, AMQ Streams 2.4, Camel K 1.10, and OpenShift Serverless 1.29 Camel K helps us integrate systems in an easy, simple, and cost-effective way. Do more with less. Do more with less. That’s the goal for everyone right now. But every company also has […]

AI and its hype, some recommendations for reading

Lately we have been seeing many things around AI and most prominently was the advent of ChatGPT, which brought AI within the average person’s viewpoint. Also here on OpenSourcerers we have had some articles around AI and ML lately, just scroll down through the list (one entry point is also linked also below).. What I’m […]

The pleasures of being the Chief-Chief-Editor

Sometimes things happen, and then you need to jump in. You might have deducted from a couple of our posts in the past, mainly around Year-End, that we have a couple of Chief-Editors for this weekly publication. And as there also sometimes someone needs to be the Chief of the Chiefs, we decided, that I […]