Confluent Data in Motion conference

👉 I ate too much in #confluent Data-In-Motion conference.
In 1999 Eric Raymond wrote a book about called: “The cathedral and the Bazar” about open-source development.

👉 From my perspective: The difference between those two OS development methods is whether you enjoy free meals and have a single focal point to reach when stuck. Or, you have to wonder through obscure forums, chase a lone developer in Ukraine that pushed to Git two years ago, OR fork-it (an F word) and make the changes yourself to the code.

👉 Escaping the developer point of view – The decision which technology stack to choose, and from whom, is much more important today than before. Because of complexity growth in the indstry and the transition to cloud and framework-based ecosystems.

👉 If in the past you spent 20% of your project budget on tools and the rest was devlopment and testing effort, today 80% is spent on tool selection, planning and integration and the rest is coding to the CI/CD.

👉 Think about it as an insurance for your development activity, if you have a small operation with good developers and the risk of GTM delays are small, you can go commando. But if you’re an entrprise with a large software factory, and clients / investors with great expectations. Pay the premium… and enjoy the “free lunch”. 😉