Gordon Haff - Issue #5 - New Platforms

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Gordon Haff

I'm a technology evangelist at Red Hat where I deal with topics such as containers, DevOps, cloud strategy, and IoT. Those will be the primary focus of this newsletter but I'll also use it to highlight generally interesting links and to provide updates on my comings and goings. Blog: http://bitmason.blogspot.com

I’m down in New York City this week talking The New Platform at CloudExpo. This presentation discusses the rapid ongoing shift from a platform that was fundamentally based on individual servers (whether virtualized or not) to containerized datacenters running decomposed services. This change has happened over a relatively short time and, while there remain wildcards and areas still in flux, we seem to be at least somewhat stabilizing around some core concepts.

Perhaps that’s wishful thinking on my part and the technology stack and ecosystem will appear as alien as today’s stack would have seemed three or four years ago. But the target has seemingly emerged with enough definition that I’m going to take a crack at putting it down in a book over the next few months.

Upcoming

This week marks the beginning of a long spell of travel. Some of it’s vacation to be sure but nonetheless the next couple of months will be packed between Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. Here’s the link to the agenda. Use discount code INcrowd16 to save on registration.

After Summit, I’ll be headed to Japan to speak at LinuxCon. I’ll be on stage with my colleague William Henry talking about “Fail Fast, Fail Often.” Afterwards, I’ll be taking some a week off in Japan.

The rest of the summer is still up in the air. A couple of DevOpsDays are in the mix and VMworld at the end of August is always a possibility–though September gets busy again so I may pass this year.

Links

The Future of Open Source – tecosystems

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Does the cloud represent opportunity for open source as well? Undoubtedly. But the future outlook for open source, particularly those who would commercialize it, seems counterintuitively far more murky today than it was in 2005. Open source is rightly being heralded as the default, and having “won.” The difficulty is that in this industry, victories tend to be very short lived.

Open source has learned how to compete, and compete very effectively, with closed source. That’s its past. Its future will be competing with the public cloud, and the first step towards doing that effectively is admitting the problem.

A typically good read from Stephen. Certainly one of the open questions about “The New Platform” as I alluded to above is the role of private versus public. On the one hand, simplistic notions of computing as an electric utility have given way to a widespread notion that computing will be heterogeneous and hybrid along many axes. On the other, that doesn’t really answer of the question of which modes and use cases will dominate over the next five to ten years.

The Fundamental Components Of Object Storage - InformationWeek

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Many of the most important values of object storage are derived from the fact that it leverages the advantages of distributed, scale-out architecture, which expands capacity by simply adding nodes.

From the vaults

Connections: Podcasts and WiFi

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(Embarrassed as I am to admit it, this thought got kicked off after running across this digg comment that said: “All I want is an iPod that auto updates all my podcast feeds without needing to connect to a computer. Give it WiFi and let is start downloading as soon as I walk into my house at the end of they day or anyplace that WiFi is connected.”)

From the vaults because, well, digg but also because I’m sure that one of the reasons podcasts 2.0 have become such a big thing is precisely that syncing has become mostly automagical.

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