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The episode discusses the complexities of open source in the context of cloud-scale business and security, highlighting the impact of Docker and Kubernetes on engineering culture and company strategy.

Send a text The dream of open source is freedom, speed, and shared progress—but the reality gets messy when it meets cloud-scale business and security. We explore how Docker kickstarted containers while Google’s Kubernetes turned them into an operational standard, and why that split shaped everything from engineering culture to company strategy. From there, we compare the cloud giants’ philosophies: Google’s foundation-first approach, Microsoft’s transformation from anti-OSS to stewarding Git...

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Hosts: Jon Gallagher, Logan Gallagher

Topics covered

• open source
• cloud computing
• containers
• business strategy
• engineering culture

Keywords

• open source
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• cloud giants
• business strategy
• engineering culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Docker, Google, Kubernetes, Microsoft, OSS

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