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Getting Forked by Microsoft philiplaine.com/posts/getting- The author details his frustration over Microsoft seemingly creating a derivative of his open-source work. He raises concerns about their collaboration methods and asks, "How can a solo open-source developer work with multi-billion dollar corporations without being taken advantage of?" Microsoft has a long history of as an evil corporation. I'm not surprised at all. We know it well. Search for "EEE" ;)

Getting Forked by Microsoft

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.

philiplaine.com · Philip Laine

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