Category: Software, Business, Kubernetes, Infrastructure

The data center is a building with racks of servers, networking gear, raised floors with cables flowing underneath, and transformers to direct power flowing off the municipal grid. Free, open source software is built by lots of developers who then share it with anyone who wants to use it.

And the software that can scale is often free and open source but costs billions to run on cloud services, data centers and devices.

Open source software and scale is a reality of almost any form of software development, which leads to a few questions that we are thinking about in prep for our pancake breakfast with Mirantis on Friday, Oct. 15 in Los Angeles at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon.

Over time, Twitter built an open source stack that could scale in their own data centers with a bit of Google Cloud for Hadoop clusters and cold storage.

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