Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #7
Open Source, data wrangling, Kubecon and making bad decisions...
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the >1,000 members of the Decibel community every month. Let’s dive in!
One Big Trend Worth Your Time
What do early adopters need to know about open source? It’s here to stay, it’s enabling developers to speed digital transformation, it empowers all levels of your organization to drive innovation, and it’s creating game changing opportunities.
With open source projects like Argo becoming the de-facto standard within enterprise companies for everything from application rollouts to machine learning pipelines, early adopters looking for quick wins in cost efficient productivity and breakthrough new technology will be rewarded for leaning in as open source software becomes increasingly important in the tooling of killer DevOps teams, driving modern engineering platforms, and empowering rapid data leverage and AI. Of course, there are other reasons open source software has been a hot topic of conversation this year including discussions of supply chain security and developer talent scarcity.
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A New Tool Wants to Save Open Source From Supply Chain Attacks
Linux Foundation survey shows companies desperate to hire open-source talent
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
An Inside Look at Innovation
While cloud-native approaches to development have gained popularity, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. Containerization has posed many problems related to version control, labeling, and security even though it has played a huge role in increasing developer velocity. Slim.ai, designed exactly for these problems, helps developers seamlessly create and manage production-level containers. Its platform automatically optimizes the composition and construction of containerized apps, and provides developers with deep insights into how their containers are performing.
Kyle Quest, co-founder and CTO at Slim.ai as well as the creator of the popular open source project, DockerSlim, recently gave a talk at KubeCon where the Slim.ai team also unveiled the findings from a report on “The Top 100 Public Containers”. Available on the Slim.ai website, the report dives into the large sizes of containers today and correlated increases in scan times as well as the risk associated with greater attack surfaces.
Decibel Friends and Family Update
👋 Welcome to Cisco’s new (and first!) head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus!
🎉 Congratulations…
Marty Roesch joins Netography as CEO
Joe Silva moves into the Global CISO role at JLL
Elena Kvochko recognized by Fortune as ‘40 Under 40’
Phanii Pydimarri now at work as Senior Director of AI and Advanced Analytics at Stanley Black & Decker
🎧 Hear from Dug Song, co-founder of Duo Security, in conversation with Decibel founding partner, Jon Sakoda, on #TheDecibelPodcast available on @Spotify, @Apple and @Stitcher.
See you next time.
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Stacey