Twitter has joined The Linux Foundation. The social-networking site, which on a large scale makes use of open-source software and the Linux OS, it pays annually $ 15,000 for the membership of the non-profit organization.
The Linux Foundation has set itself the goal of Linux is to promote the development of the opensource operating system to speed up. In like manner, the non-profit organization, under other money in the development of the Linux kernel, and serves as a platform where companies and organizations plans and ideas to exchange. Among others, IBM, Intel, Google, HP, Nvidia, Oracle and Samsung are members of The Linux Foundation. Now, Twitter has joined the organisation. For the membership, in the form of a silver membership, pay Twitter, an annual amount of $ 15,000.
Despite the fact that Twitter the past few weeks was criticized by open-source developers for the tightening of its api terms and conditions, the social-networking site built with open source software. The company makes extensive use of Linux-running servers and put under another MySQL to store tweets, as well as Memcached for caching data on its servers.
Twitter, for some time sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and member of the W3C, has also open-source software developed. So with the tool of Lago, a server at maximum load to be tested and developers can use the distributed tracing system Zipkin the performance of running services in the holes.
The Linux Foundation has in addition to the new membership of Twitter also announced that the company’s Inktank and Servergy have joined. Servergy builds servers, while Inktank storage systems based on Ceph software on the market.