Last week’s annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) was a hotbed of discussion on cloud-native application development, engineering culture, and open software collaboration. Topics at the Portland-based conference ranged from technical innovations in container orchestration and microservices, to the economic and cultural changes behind recent record growth in open-source project collaboration among organizations.
With many of the most interesting conversations occurring online and in the hallway track, I thought I’d share my 10 favorite quotes from OSCON 2015.
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On Cloud Native Development:
- “The move from mainframes to PCs completely changed the way we think about building applications. Client/server changed it again. Mobile, again. The move to containers and Cloud Native apps is on the same scale.” Greg DeMichillie, Google
- “The question is not whether Cloud Native will be a destination, then, but rather how one gets there.” – Stephen O’Grady, Redmonk
On DevOps:
- “If your developers are spending time thinking about individual machines, you’re operating at too low-level of an abstraction. You want to operate at the level of applications.” – Greg DeMichillie, Google
- On containerization: “Containers are changing the data center the same way containers changed global trade.” – Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation
On Open Source:
- “We live in an age of open-source. Open source has won.” – Sam Ramji, Cloud Foundry Foundation
- “Organizations should think of open-source not as endangering revenue, but rather as driving adoption.” – Brian Cantrill, Joyent
On Why Facebook Contributes To Open Source:
- “By sharing our code, our stack, and in some cases even our hardware designs, we think that other companies and individuals are just able to move faster. Far from this being a competitive threat, we find that this value accrues back to us.” James Pearce, Facebook
On Bringing Open Source Practices To Internal Projects:
- “Open source has a long tail and that tail is inner source… Inner source is interesting because we want more craftmanship, more mentorship and more velocity.” – Danese Cooper, Paypal
On Software Architecture:
- “If we don’t create good architecture, then in the end, we’re deceiving our customers, because we’re slowing down their ability to compete.” – Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks
- “Your team setup says more about your architecture than the architecture itself.” – Raffi Krikorian, Uber
For more, check out the OSCON website or watch the full OSCON talks online.
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