Jodson Graves

For a technology of such consequence, Kubernetes is remarkably little discussed outside the trade. It has no consumer face, no logo anyone would recognise, no charismatic founder-billionaire. It is plumbing. But plumbing is where the interesting economics usually hide, and the story of how a piece of infrastructure software escaped from Google, defeated better-funded rivals, and became a de facto standard is a case study in how technical architecture, corporate strategy and open-source governanc

This August, the Network Theory Applied Research Institute welcomed a wave of new volunteers into the first annual Community Orchestration Software Development Sprint (COSDS)

Proprietary platforms extract rent precisely because the communities using them never learn to build or hold their own tools. The goal of COSDS is to train people — university students, working professionals, and communities themselves — in how to build and maintain open-source software, and in doing so to improve the socioeconomic resources available on the internet