Why you don't have to be afraid of Kubernetes
It was fun to work at a large web property in the late 1990s and early 2000s. My experience takes me back to American Greetings Interactive, where on Valentine's Day, we had one of the top 10 sites on...
View Article5 predictions for Kubernetes in 2020
How do you track a wildly popular project like Kubernetes? How do you figure out where it’s going? If you are contributing to the project or participating in Special Interest Groups (SIGs), you might...
View ArticleIs open source a development model, business model, or something else?
The term "open source" was coined in 1998 at a strategy session held by Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI maintains the Open Source Definition (OSD), which places mandates on the distribution terms...
View ArticleHow to define a product in the open source software supply chain
In the first article in this series, "Is open source a development model, business model, or something else?" I introduced the concept that open source is part of the supply chain for software...
View ArticleWhat do open source product teams do?
If you go to any hip product management conference, you'll hear about product teams. At a minimum, a product team has a product manager, but it often includes roles in marketing, technical...
View Article8 Kubernetes insights for 2021
The end of the year is the perfect time to look back and explore where we've been and where we're going in the Kubernetes world. I particularly want to focus on the ecosystem that formed around...
View Article18 ways to differentiate open source products from upstream suppliers
In the first three parts of this series, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, and what product managers do. In this fourth article, I'll look at a plethora of methods to...
View ArticleManaging the open source product roadmap
In the first four parts of this series on the open source software supply chain, I explored open source as a supply chain, what a product is, what product managers do, and ways to differentiate open...
View ArticleGoing to market with an open source product
This article is the sixth in a series on product management in an open source supply chain. In the previous articles, I covered the following topics:Open source as a supply chainWhat a product isWhat...
View ArticleWhat is open core?
What is open core? Is a project open core, or is a business open core? That's debatable. Like open source, some view it as a development model, others view it as a business model. As a product manager,...
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