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Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sheng Wu (@wusheng1108) discuss Apache SkyWalking, an open-source APM tool focusing on cloud-native and distributed systems. SkyWalking was originally developed in 2012 as a training tool for developers new to distributed systems architecture, but it became Sheng\u2019s pet project for several years until he brought it to the Apache Incubator program. Listen to today\u2019s episode for the inside scoop of how this \u201chidden gem\u201d fits into the Apache network of open-source software projects.

In this episode we discuss:

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• Why open-source APMs are not very common
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• SkyWalking\u2019s focus on attracting more contributors rather than users
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• How a conflict of interest at Huawei led to a \u201cbake-off\u201d between Apache and CNCF
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• The impact of Elastic changing their license on the open-source community
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• The name \u201cSkywalking,\u201d its sources of inspiration, and an easter egg
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Links:

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• Apache SkyWalking
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• Kubernetes
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• The Apache Incubator
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• CNCF
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• Tetrate
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• Apache ShardingSphere
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• Apache APISIX
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• Envoy Proxy
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• Apache Airflow
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• Apache Beam
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• Dynatrace
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• New Relic
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• Elastic
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• Helm
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• Zipkin
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Other episodes:

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• Envoy Proxy with Matt Klein
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