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As a senior product marketing manager for an enterprise software company that adopts an open source development model, this is a regular update on open source community, market and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and others. Here are five of my favorites from this update.
Resolving Linux nuts and bolts at the Linux Plumbers Conference
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds told me that the Kernel Maintainers Summit is an invitation-only gathering of top Linux Kernel developers. But while you might think this was a meeting about planning the future of the Linux kernel, it wasn’t. “This Maintainer summit is really different because it doesn’t even talk about technology.” Instead, “it’s all about creating and maintaining a Linux kernel.”
Impact: It’s like the tech version of Bilderberg: you have all these fancy buzzword meetings, but here we make the real decisions. But I don’t think private jets are likely to be involved. (LCTT)
Microsoft hosts first WSL conference
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Hayden Barnes, founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focused on the Linux Subsystem for Windows (WSL), announced WSLconf 1, WSL’s first community meeting. The event will take place March 10-11, 2020, at Microsoft headquarters building 20 in Redmond, Washington. The meeting is joint. We already know there will be talks and workshops from developers at Pengwin (Linux for Windows from Whitewater), Microsoft WSL and Canonical’s Ubuntu on WSL.
Impact: Microsoft is nurturing the seeds of community growth around which it is increasingly adopting and contributing to open source software. It was enough to blow my mind.
Introduction to Appwrite: Open Source Back-end Servers for Mobile and Web Developers
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Appwrite is a new open source software for front-end and mobile developers with an end-to-end back-end server that lets you build applications faster. Appwrite’s goal is to abstract and simplify common development tasks behind REST apis and tools to help developers build advanced applications faster.
In this article, I’ll briefly introduce some of the major Appwrite services and explain their main functions and how they are designed to help you build your next project faster than writing all the back-end apis from scratch.
Impact: Software development is getting easier as more open source middleware becomes easier to use. Appwrite claims to reduce development time and costs by 70%. Imagine what this could mean for small mobile developers or individual developers. I wonder how they will make money this way.
“More than IT” : Open source technology experts say a culture of collaboration is key to transforming government.
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AGL (Agile Government Leadership) is providing a value support network for people who are helping government work better for the public. The organization focuses on things I’m passionate about: DevOps, digital transformation, open source, and similar topics preferred by many government IT leaders. AGL has provided me with a community to learn what the best and brightest are doing today and to share that knowledge with peers across the industry.
Impact: Regardless of your political beliefs, it’s easy to be cynical about government. I find it refreshing that government is also made up of practical people, mostly trying to apply relevant technology to good causes. Especially when the technology is open source!
How Bloomberg achieves near 90-95% hardware utilization with Kubernetes
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In 2016, Bloomberg adopted Kubernetes, which was still in its alpha phase, and has seen remarkable results since using the project’s upstream code. “With Kubernetes, we were able to use our hardware very efficiently, getting closer to 90 to 95 percent utilization,” Rybka said. Automatic scaling in Kubernetes enables the system to meet requirements faster. In addition, Kubernetes “gives us the ability to standardize the way we build and manage services, which means we can spend more time focusing on actually using the open source tools we support,” “If we want to build a new cluster in another part of the world, it’s really easy to do so,” said Steven Bower, director of data and analytics infrastructure. Everything is just code. Configuration is code.”
Impact: Nothing cuts through the fog of marketing like utilization statistics. One thing I’ve heard about Kube is that when people run it, they don’t know what to do with it. Use cases like this can give them (and you) something they want.
I hope you enjoyed this list of last week’s highlights, and come back next week for more information on the open source community, market, and industry trends.
Via: opensource.com/article/19/…
Author: Tim Hildred, Lujun9972
This article is originally compiled by LCTT and released in Linux China