The origins of OpenStack
summary
History of OpenStack explains how a NASA/Rackspace project called Pan/Nova becomes a million‑line, 10,000‑person codebase by shipping fast not standardizing, how the team mails disks instead of using tiny AWS volumes, and how early choices — a plug‑in REST architecture, an RPC message bus, and governance that mirrors the code — actually scale. Surprising facts: first release in 48 hours, initial datasets around 100 terabytes, and initial tests with 85% unit test coverage; the system works though it’s often chaotic.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:10Everyone lies
- 2:30Conways Law
- 3:38Three Components
- 4:35About OpenStack
- 5:15History of OpenStack
- 6:30Big Data
- 7:40Culture
- 9:08Netscape
- 9:45NASA
- 10:27Culture is important
- 16:15KOT
- 16:27Governance
- 22:53Authenticity
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