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  • boinc

    Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

  • nuclei

    Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

    • If you own any web properties, you can use https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei running in a beefy VM to scan them for vulnerabilities. It will scale to use all available resources if you give it a big box.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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