Mary Branscombe
"OpenStack's goal is not to be a less functional VMware, it’s to be a better OpenStack with its own ecosystem..."
Like Flatcar, Talos is minimal by design; unlike Flatcar, it gets that way by adding just what it needs to a stripped down Linux kernel that only runs cryptographically signed modules. It has only a handful of binaries, including its own process manager...
How to actually describe an application in a way that includes all the technical details about its life cycle dependencies is actually pretty important…
"We can reach any data source. AI is really only as good as the data it has access to and the metadata it has access to, and we have access to everything within the enterprise"
"Instead of building yet another wrapper script or deploying a bunch of custom automation to hide the Terraform spaghetti, you just define an object and let the system maintain it for you..."
Simple, speedy, scalable, resilient: the fast, lightweight message broker you’re suddenly hearing a lot about has plenty of competition but stands out for its comprehensive approach to event-driven architecture
"It took two commands, and it saved us $30,000 a month on our cloud bill"
"You can start and stop VMs. You can snapshot and clone VMs. There's a backup and restore mechanism. You can do live migration. You can do storage migration, you can run encryption, you can run a TPM"
Flatcar is getting widely adopted. Adobe runs it on over 20,000 nodes of its internal Ethos Kubernetes platform across multiple cloud providers and private data centres...