Open source has become one of the most popular - if not the most popular? - ways of producing and maintaining software. What are the advantages for developers, and how should organizations evaluate the long term viability of open source projects? We discuss these topics, plus a little bit of a look back at the history of commercialized open source in this episode. As always, we also discuss the news like Google undersea cables, Amazon HQ2, easier machine learning, and more.
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News
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Google shares planned cloud expansion, work on undersea cable. Onward and upward for the Google Cloud. Also, another strong dev evangelism hire (it's that dude who used to be a Salesforce). Related, see Ashly's write-up of what "developer advocate" does.
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Google has beta(?) access to a no-code machine learning service: "The basic idea here, Google says, is to allow virtually anybody to bring their images, upload them (and import their tags or create them in the app) and then have Google’s systems automatically create a customer machine learning model for them. The company says that Disney, for example, has used this system to make the search feature in its online store more robust because it can now find all the products that feature a likeness of Lightning McQueen and not just those where your favorite talking race car was tagged in the text description."
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Amazon narrows list of cities for HQ2. What a great way to get free press: share a list of obvious candidates for any major company headquarters: "Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, Boston, New York City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and Miami."
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Spectre, Meltdown and the need for better patching hygiene. Insightful piece: "In the Cloud Foundry scenario, these are embodied by BOSH to automate the infrastructure resource, namely VMs, container clusters, virtual storage and networks, configuration and deployment and Concourse for the development pipeline. Together, these enable organizations to rapidly and consistently patch all applications using the PaaS environment." See general coverage from The Register, and a swag at estimating the costs of fixing this from TPM. We also discussed this on last week's Software Defined Talk.
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Coté on tech companies Facebook destroying civilization, podcast format, typed format.
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Two spending/market indicators: 451 survey shows continued plans to spend more on IT than not (since Feb. 2017) and IDC sizes public cloud market (SaaS is ~⅔ of that, then comes IaaS, followed by PaaS).
Open source discussion
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Matt Asay says AWS owes nothing to open source - and lays out the context for all this stuff)
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WSO2 making money and lays out the general ops plan for an OSS company
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James Governor goes over top contributors (by company) to GitHub, in 2017
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