At StackSense, we were skeptical about Google Serverless strategy and even advised readers not to use Google Functions because it was left languishing for quite some time. We rank Google Cloud Functions on the bottom among the four major cloud providers because of the lack of features and lack of general availability for the service. […]
Let Us Just Retire The Term Serverless
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 falls into this category. Initially, used by Ken Fromm as a way to describe on-demand elastic infrastructure […]
Microsoft + GitHub – Is The Sky Falling For AWS And GCP?
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 Github that they went to. Google retired Google Code and moved to GitHub. While Gitlab and […]
Microsoft + GitHub = ?
Yesterday Microsoft announced that they are acquiring GitHub, the company behind source code repository focussed on developers. Of course, since the acquiring company is Microsoft, the social media are full of skepticism and parody. Leaving aside all the noise that happens when such a huge acquisition happens, we want to do a quick analysis of […]
Red Hat Summit: OpenShift As The Next RHEL
Last week I was at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, and this was my 7th Summit, with three of them as an employee. This year’s summit is by far the largest I have seen in the last several years. One striking part of this year’s summit was how OpenShift is the central theme of […]