Live tweeting from #SCALE16x @gossmanster keynote...on the long road to Open Source for @Microsoft
@gossmanster Not a lot of Open Source experience before he dipped his toe into DevOps. His first visit to @linuxfoundation Board he got a standing ovation, followed by 2 hrs of Hell freezing over.
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Stuck by Sapiens and the idea that basic work skillsets didn’t differentiate for 5000 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind …
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Today we have 6 month product cycles. Pace of change acceleration...CRISPR is only science fiction fodder today. Tomorrow it will be historical fiction.
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In programming, now you have to be a polyglot. Use the right language for the job, mix Dev and Ops, Be platform agnostic
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WIX release in 2004 is the beginning of a graph that ends 10-years later with 2,000 Open Source projects on CodePlex and GitHub (shoutout to
@stephenrwalli)pic.twitter.com/zUNhL2wCNR
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Linux investments...wake up and realize Windows isn’t the only platform...through
@Azure HyperVisor and on to .Net, etc. Customers started begging for hooks to PostgreSQL and MySQL.@Microsoft had to offer tools people actually wanted on their Cloud.Show this thread -
Pitch for Microsoft/Typescript (an Open Source project). The engineer who leads it “feels like he’s collaborating directly with his actual users”...and
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Pitch for involvement in SONiC...now on to simple graphic on the OSPO ethicpic.twitter.com/ic1LAgdXpk
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So what changed? Open Source won (nods to RedHat, generalized use of FOSS, customer demand, innovations like AI & BigData, research demands data access for reproducability). Also
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@Microsoft is a nerdy engineering culture. If you looked up Nerd in the dictionary, you got a picture of@BillGatespic.twitter.com/pH1c1aDRDX
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Uncredited nod to Bill Joy’s insight “You can’t possibly hire all the smartest people”...and a paen to the refresh post-Ballmer of
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On .NET...so far no mention of @miqueldeicaza and Mono (kind of shocking). Claim that 1/2 of contributions come from outside
@Microsoftpic.twitter.com/RuNCDUgbqL
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And on
@code (Visual Studio Code). Claim that#GoLang and#JavaScript devs “prefer this editor according to surveys” (not most of the folks I know, I’m guessing). Guy sitting next to me says@code is spyware.Show this thread -
With respect to history,
@gossmanster says they started an OSPO recently because “lots of Open Source was happening”.../me wonders about the previous work of@sramji,@stephenrwalli, and several others before?Show this thread -
Slide of ancillary Open Source investments...guy next to me is worried about R on that list (and my pal
@revodavid told me recently he’s not really working on R since@Microsoft acquhired#RevolutionAnalytics). I’m guessing R is safe enough from inclusion the Visual Studio CoreShow this thread
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