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This week at GoogleNext 2018, Google and some other partners announced the launch of a new open source project called Knative. Knative is a higher level abstraction that offers some of the primitives needed to build and deploy the code on top of … [Continue reading]
The term autonomic computing is nothing new. Ever since IBM used this as a marketing term in 2001, this term has been on the periphery of most people focussed on the future IT trends. Clearly, the term has been suffering from overzealous IBM … [Continue reading]
The two sweeping trends in Modern Enterprise today are Machine Learning and Cloud Native. Our research shows that by 2020, most modern enterprise decision-makers will be focussed on scalable machine learning systems to meet their needs. Scalability … [Continue reading]
Multi cloud is a reality. Even though not getting locked in and portability advantage are drivers for multi cloud, we see “picking the right cloud services from any provider to meet the application needs” as one of the main reasons for the adoption. … [Continue reading]
Cloud Native platforms, driven in large part by Kubernetes, is at the peak of the hype cycle and almost every enterprise we talk to have embraced or in the process of embracing such platforms. At Rishidot Research, we focus on finding patterns … [Continue reading]
The long-held belief in the IT industry is that enterprises are risk averse and they prefer battle tested versions of software over bleeding edge latest release. Traditional enterprise software companies have, in fact, built their business based on … [Continue reading]
Google Cloud is a good choice for Cloud platforms. There are a lot of things they do well, they lead the market in AI and containers, in intense competition for the first place in data services.With that, I have some hopes that they will address … [Continue reading]
Yesterday, I wrote a post about retiring the term Serverless in favor of more specific terms like Functions Compute or FaaS, Data Services, etc.. As I expected, this was met with pushbacks on Twitter from people who are in the AWS camp (as in … [Continue reading]
Tech industry loves to create terms that confuse people more than adding any value. Terms like Private Cloud, NoOps, etc. are marketing terms invented by vendors without adding any meaningful value to the industry conversation. The term Serverless … [Continue reading]
One of the top concerns for Serverless, especially among the enterprise users, is the idea of vendor lock-in. Functions as a Service (FaaS) offerings from public cloud providers definitely has a certain level of vendor lock-in. The key question is … [Continue reading]
It is no doubt that GitHub is popular among developers. When AWS wanted to broaden their outreach to OSS Community, they started sharing code on the service. Even when Microsoft wanted to broadcast to the world that they are serious about OSS, its … [Continue reading]