How Convenience Is Killing Open Standards

All the technical freedom and diversity we enjoy in our industry is the result of internal, grass root evangelism. Over the last decades, thought leaders have strongly opposed manufacturer-centric strategies and argued the case of Open Source and Open Standards. This ultimately led to the success of Linux and Open Source.

But now, two decades later, the IT industry is in upheaval again: All major cloud providers have been pushing their serverless solutions in order to lure customers into a new form of vendor lock-in. And they succeeded: The number of serverless deployments has already surpassed those of container based ones.

"So this is how liberty dies ... with thunderous applause"

There is no time to waste, to remind ourselves about Open Standards, their value to our industry, and why it is worth to fight for them. Open Standards go beyond the boundaries of development and operation. They are the foundation of a barrier free interoperability and independent communications.

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1. @gethash How Convenience Is Killing Open
2. @gethash •CEO @NETWAYS, @ICINGA •DevOpsDays Core Organizer •From Nuremberg | Germany @gethash About me
3. @gethash Motivation
4. @gethash •Started as a Solaris Admin •Came into the Oracle DBA business •Ended up in an Open Source Company •There is a high chance I will retire there My Background
5. @gethash I am old
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10. @gethash Big Goals
11. @gethash We wanted that
12. @gethash Promises
13. @gethash We wanted that
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15. @gethash The supposed improvements made it worse
16. @gethash Verschlimmbesserung
17. @gethash Frustrating
18. @gethash Standards
19. @gethash POSIX
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21. @gethash GNU Tools
22. @gethash Linux
23. @gethash Communities
24. @gethash Diversity
25. @gethash Fantastic
26. @gethash Time flies
27. @gethash Current Status
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29. @gethash More Open Source than ever before
30. @gethash Flexera Cloud Report 2023
31. @gethash Where is the problem?
32. @gethash Open Source Open Standards
33. @gethash API <> Open Standard
34. @gethash Unbalanced market
35. @gethash 4% 3% 9% 12% 9% 4% 6% 5% 10% 16% 16% 19% 10% 13% 8% 11% 12% 18% 26% 27% 30% 5% 5% 8% 8% 17% 47% 41% Others Alibaba Cloud IBM Cloud Oracle Cloud Google Cloud AWS Azure Planed Experimenting Some Workload Significant Workload Flexera Cloud Report 2023
36. @gethash “No“ Standards
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38. @gethash What about K8s?
39. @gethash Impact on Open Source
40. @gethash Good and Evil (not so good)
41. @gethash Fear and Protection
42. @gethash New licenses
43. @gethash Open Source and Standards need Support ++
44. @gethash Future
45. @gethash FaaS SaaS PaaS IaaS *aaS
46. @gethash Isn‘t it all commodity like power and water?
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48. @gethash Gas price in EUR/MWh
49. @gethash Is winter coming?
50. @gethash A little bit …
51. @gethash Well, no!
52. @gethash Convenience is a risk
53. @gethash Lock-in is a risk
54. @gethash Slowness is a risk too
55. @gethash Data by RightScale State of the Cloud Report #1 priority cloud cost optimization.
56. @gethash Pricing in oligopoly
57. @gethash 2006 $ 67 2022 $ 500 Monthly dose of Insulin
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62. @gethash What can you do?
63. @gethash Don’t follow every
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65. @gethash “Monoliths are the future”
66. @gethash Cost control
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68. @gethash Interoperability is important
69. @gethash Prevent vendor lock-in
70. @gethash Support Variety
71. @gethash Demand contribution
72. @gethash Doubt
73. @gethash Diversity is up to you!
74. @gethash Thank You netways netways netways.de netways.de/blog github.com/netways