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  • 227M+ lines of code in stewardship
  • 4.2B+ lines of code changed
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  • 813 individual ASF Members
  • 8,100+ Apache Committers
  • 40,000+ code contributors
  • 480,000+ people involved in our communities
  • 350+ Projects and Initiatives
  • 300+ Top-Level Projects
  • 37 podlings in the Apache Incubator
  • ~2 Petabytes source code downloads from Apache mirrors
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  • Web requests received from every Internet-connected country on the planet
  • 35M+ weekly page views across apache.org

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The ASF develops, shepherds, and incubates hundreds of freely-available, enterprise-grade projects that serve as the backbone for some of the most visible and widely used applications in computing today. Through the ASF's merit-based process known as "The Apache Way," more than 800 individual volunteer Members and 7,800+ code Committers across six continents successfully collaborate on innovations in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Big Data, Build Management, Cloud Computing, Content Management, DevOps, IoT and Edge Computing, Mobile, Servers, and Web Frameworks, among other categories.

APACHE IS …

OPEN: The Apache Software Foundation provides support for 300+ Apache Projects and their Communities, furthering its mission of providing Open Source software for the public good.

INNOVATION: Apache Projects are defined by collaborative, consensus-based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.

COMMUNITY: We are a community of developers and users of enterprise-grade, Open Source Apache projects used in every Internet-connected country on the planet.

Apache Projects

The all-volunteer ASF develops, stewards, and incubates more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives that cover a wide range of technologies. From Accumulo to Zookeeper, if you are looking for a rewarding experience in Open Source and industry leading software, chances are you are going to find it here. Are you powered by Apache?

Featured Projects

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Apache Tapestry

Tapestry is a component-oriented Java web application framework. Its design emphasizes ease of use and developer productivity. Component classes are simple POJOs, with Tapestry using byte code manipulation to enhance classes at runtime. Configuration is via annotations and naming conventions rather than XML. Web page and component templates use regular...

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Apache MetaModel

With MetaModel you get a uniform connector and query API to many very different datastore types, including: Relational (JDBC) databases, CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, XML files, JSON files, Fixed width files, MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra, ElasticSearch, OpenOffice.org databases, Salesforce.com, SugarCRM and even collections of plain old Java...

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Incubating Projects

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path into The Apache Software Foundation for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation’s efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects seeking to join the Apache community enter through the Incubator.

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Apache Teaclave (Incubating)

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform.

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Apache Spot (Incubating)

Apache Spot is a platform for network telemetry built on an open data model and Apache Hadoop.

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Apache Crail (Incubating)

Crail is a storage platform for sharing performance critical data in distributed data processing jobs at very high speed.

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