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b'Have you ever had high expectations about a new software product? Did you think it was going to be spectacular? Instead, did it become less about solving a problem for you and more about reaching a bunch of billable consultants? The dynamics of open source communities and the Cloud platform can make or break software products.\\nToday, we\\u2019re talking to Andrew Clay Shafer, who was a notable voice during the days of OpenStack. He had high hopes for OpenStack, which was an effort to bring a democratized solution of Cloud computing to anyone\\u2019s data center. He describes the importance of understanding the challenges associated with open source projects in order for them to be successful.\\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\\n\\nOpen source is not a business model; capture value for customers, or they\\u2019ll go with a different solution\\nOpenness/Closure: Every open source project has its own community dynamics \\nLosing sight of level of expertise for profitability and easy path to useage\\nWhether to become a product or service company - difficult to be both effectively or go from being one to the other; build partner relationship, focus, and say \\u201cno\\u201d\\nLack of awareness about AWS Outposts admitting public Cloud is no longer a viable business model\\nAmazon relentlessly focuses on what its customers want and tries to keep promises about what it can and can\\u2019t do\\nCloud Native: Not where you run, but how you run; confining variables\\nSelf-fulfilling prophecy to under deliver when you make the bad decision to under source IT across the board \\nCloud Native, DevOps, SRE: Buzzwords that equal one thing and work together \\nDilemma of not building everything and buying some things, but you can\\u2019t buy everything; humans like to shop and go with the easiest option\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nAndrew Clay Shafer on Twitter\\nAndrew Clay Shafer on LinkedIn\\nPuppet\\nRe:invent\\nOpenStack\\nEucalyptus\\nDocker\\nRedis\\nMongoDB\\nConfluent\\nKubernetes\\nAWS Outposts\\nAWS Ground Station\\nAmazonBasics\\nSimon Wardley\\nMaslach Burnout Inventory\\nDatadog'