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Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work within customer budget and time constraints which did not allow it. During a Black Friday, we started getting hit with a ton of traffic while GitHub container registries were down. This limited our ability to scale up the cluster as we depended on critical images from that registry. After this incident, I started thinking about a better way to avoid these scalability issues. A solution that did not need a stateful component and required minimal operational oversight. This is where the idea for Spegel came from.
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Reading this article again and I can’t help but be disappointed by the way Microsoft literally screws over indie developers and their projects all in the name of “Open source”.
Their modus operandi is simple and similar:
- They see an exciting and useful project that’s run by an individual.
- They invite their individual over all in the name of collaboration and open source. 3. They hold a series of meetings to pick the brains of the individual/creators while holding promise of long term collaboration.
- Radio silence. The ghost of Microsoft at work.
- They release an open source or official version of a project similar to the one run by the invidual/creators that they had been sweet talking.
- The indie creators are shocked and users are confused.
- Microsoft’s project gains dominance while the other one dies and life goes on.
- Repeat process.
This is not the first time this has happened. If I’m not wrong, I recall something similar happened with the creator of Chocolatey unfortunately Microsoft’s package manager was not able to dethrone him or his project.
It’s a tough world out there. So, be safe: protect yourself at all times.
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