Working on OSS means spending >40hr weeks for years helping users (for free!), only to be told you haven't done enough because someone paid you a salary.
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Working on OSS means spending >40hr weeks for years helping users (for free!), only to be told you haven't done enough because someone paid you a salary.
This is not happening though... The opposite is - vendors hiring people that would otherwise make 0 contributions to Istio and now are. 4 of the top 10 this year meet that criteria!
Lowering barriers to contributions is great but I don't buy this "vendors are talent vacuums" mindset.
Of the top 10 contributors this year:
* 2 moved companies and increased contributions
* 1 left for an unrelated role
* 4 are new contributors
* 3 have no changes
All but 1 are employed by Istio vendors (the other is an
end user).
I assume the implication is they are taking them away from OSS to work on closed source things -- in the 6 years I've worked on Istio I cannot recall a single time this has happened. My contributions doubled the moment I moved!
I've never really understood why vendors are seen as this "villain". They are ruining OSS by... investing millions of dollars into paying maintainers to work on open source?
Top KubeCon question: "Does ambient mesh scale?"
Yes, but a more useful question is "How much effort does it take to scale"?
blog.howardjohn.info/posts/scalin... covers this in depth.
I'll be speaking this week in the coveted Friday afternoon time slot. Come by if you want to learn about simulating Kubernetes for testing! I am confident you will learn something new, but no promises it will be useful 🙂.
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Fast, secure and simple: Istio's ambient mode is now Generally Available
Istio 1.24 is out today, and it's kind of a big deal.
istio.io/latest/news/...