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Open source has never been stronger

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Geekz Snow
Open source has never been stronger

There has perhaps never been so much angst over whether open source software development is sustainable, and yet there has never been clearer evidence that we’re in the golden age of open source.

The first is that the clouds—yes, all of them—are open sourcing essential building blocks that expose their operations.

For example, Microsoft Azure released Azure Functions, which “extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or third-party service as well as on-premises systems.”

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Azure Functions is a significant open source release, so much so that CNCF executive director Dan Kohn initially assumed that the Azure Functions “SDK is open source, but I don’t think the underlying functions are.” In other words, Kohn assumed the on-ramp to Azure was open source, but not the code that could enable a developer to run serverless setup on bare metal.

That assumption, however, was wrong, and Kohn corrected himself: “This is open source and can be run on any environment (including bare metal).”

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