Kubernetes is fast evolving as the standard orchestration platform for cloud native deployments. However, Kubernetes is still not mature enough to support stateful applications and distributed applications like those running on IoT and Edge. Clearly, developers are looking beyond Kubernetes for their needs. While Kubernetes can help to orchestrate an application, a complementary solution is […]
Introducing Service Semantics To Enable Flow Architectures
Better understanding of Events and Services can enable different deployment and operational architectures in the Cloud-Edge continuum In his blog “Five Facets of Flow Strategy”, James Urquhart identifies potential hurdles to overcome for the latest Computing Paradigm: Asynchronous, event-driven “serverless” computing. Briefly, they are scale (in terms of number/types of events & services), agility, quality, optimization and […]
The Dilemma Of Enterprise IT Vendors
Enterprise IT market is tough for startups. We recently saw Redis Labs moving to a more restrictive license to fend off competition from the cloud providers. This difficulty results from both open source and public cloud services. Look at Docker and its troubles monetizing their platform, despite their huge success with developers. Just a few […]
Robin Hoodization of OSS and Commons Clause License
Recently Redis Labs announced Commons Clause License that caused quite a bit of uproar among the open source communities. One reason for the uproar was a marketing spin implying it is an open source license. Even though the license applies only for their proprietary add-ons than the core Redis itself, the pushback is real. But, […]
Knative Project Should Move To CNCF Now
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 Kubernetes. Google along with Pivotal, SAP, IBM, Red Hat and others have […]
OpenShift Is Kubernetes Fork?
Yesterday, there was a conversation on Twitter after Janakiramm wrote an article in which he refers to some analysts calling OpenShift a fork of Kubernetes. As someone who has been part of open source since the early Slackware days and as someone who has seen the forking process in many communities in the past, I […]