John Howard

Working on OSS means spending >40hr weeks for years helping users (for free!), only to be told you haven't done enough because someone paid you a salary.

09.12.2024 20:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is not happening though... The opposite is - vendors hiring people that would otherwise make 0 contributions to Istio and now are. 4 of the top 10 this year meet that criteria!
Lowering barriers to contributions is great but I don't buy this "vendors are talent vacuums" mindset.

08.12.2024 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Of the top 10 contributors this year:
* 2 moved companies and increased contributions
* 1 left for an unrelated role
* 4 are new contributors
* 3 have no changes

All but 1 are employed by Istio vendors (the other is an
end user).

08.12.2024 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I assume the implication is they are taking them away from OSS to work on closed source things -- in the 6 years I've worked on Istio I cannot recall a single time this has happened. My contributions doubled the moment I moved!

08.12.2024 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I've never really understood why vendors are seen as this "villain". They are ruining OSS by... investing millions of dollars into paying maintainers to work on open source?

08.12.2024 21:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Scaling Ambient In Your Sleep How ambient achieves massive scale without toil.

Top KubeCon question: "Does ambient mesh scale?"

Yes, but a more useful question is "How much effort does it take to scale"?

blog.howardjohn.info/posts/scalin... covers this in depth.

18.11.2024 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Testing Kubernetes Without Kubernetes: A... View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

I'll be speaking this week in the coveted Friday afternoon time slot. Come by if you want to learn about simulating Kubernetes for testing! I am confident you will learn something new, but no promises it will be useful 🙂.

sched.co/1i7qh

11.11.2024 16:58 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Fast, secure and simple: Istio's ambient mode is now Generally Available

Istio 1.24 is out today, and it's kind of a big deal.

istio.io/latest/news/...

08.11.2024 01:32 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2