Open source

Standing on the
shoulders of giants

CannyWare isn't built from scratch — it's built on decades of work that thousands of people gave away for free. Every live graph, every secure login, every datapoint we store rides on open-source software written by people we've mostly never met. This page is our thank-you. We don't just use their work — we depend on it, and we honor its licenses with care.

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Python

Guido van Rossum & the Python community

The language the whole platform is written in.

“Three decades of a language that stays readable as it scales.”

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Django

the Django Software Foundation

The web framework behind our portal and admin.

“Batteries included, security taken seriously, docs that teach.”

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OpenWISP

Federico Capoano & the OpenWISP community

Device management, provisioning and multi-tenancy.

“A complete, genuinely multi-tenant network platform — given away freely.”

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Grafana

Torkel Ödegaard & Grafana Labs

The dashboards behind our live engine graphs.

“The tool that made time-series data beautiful for everyone.”

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Elasticsearch

Shay Banon & the Elastic team

Stores and searches billions of telemetry datapoints.

“Fast aggregations over enormous time-series, out of the box.”

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PostgreSQL & PostGIS

the PostgreSQL Global Development Group

The rock-solid database under the platform.

“Forty years of correctness you can simply trust.”

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Redis

Salvatore Sanfilippo & contributors

Powers our real-time channels and caching.

“Beautifully simple, ruthlessly fast.”

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nginx

Igor Sysoev & the nginx team

The reverse proxy that ties the stack together.

“Quietly serving the internet for two decades.”

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Apache ECharts

the Apache ECharts community

Renders our customer-facing telemetry charts.

“Gorgeous, fast charts with nothing to phone home about.”

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Docker

the Docker & Moby community

Packages and isolates every service we run.

“Made 'it works on my machine' work everywhere.”

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AxoSyslog / syslog-ng

Balázs Scheidler & Axoflow

Ingests CAN telemetry reliably, with disk buffering.

“Never drops a message, even when everything else hiccups.”

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Let's Encrypt

ISRG & the web community

Secures every connection with free TLS.

“Encryption for all — no invoice, no excuses.”

To everyone who maintains, documents and fixes

…often on evenings and weekends, often without thanks — this platform exists because of you. If you maintain something we rely on and we can help, we'd like to. Open source gave us our foundation; we intend to give back to it.

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