Open Source in the Age of Cloud and Microservices
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-09-19· at 11:25· Room 0E-1 (Floor 0), Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain·
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A 30+ year retrospective that claims open source now "rules the world," tracing Postgres from Berkeley to production, showing business models shifting toward managed services and criticizing open core models; cites a real system built for a German meteorological service that achieves zero downtime for 20+ years; explains modern stacks use Kubernetes and containers on Debian, warns monolith rewrites fail, and recommends prefer projects with active community engagement and operational expertise.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Open source in cloud era
- 2:09Early FOSS years
- 7:30Business models dot-com
- 12:33Evolving community processes
- 16:46Security challenges adoption
- 22:30Community vs business
- 25:43Inner sourcing distributed
- 27:53Skills for open source
- 32:29Microservices vs monoliths
- 35:42Modern projects foundations
- 37:07Cloud-native business models
- 40:57Security container setups
- 42:22Choosing reliable OSS
- 43:05Q&A
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