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2023 Year In Review

This is our annual year review and prediction episode and it is a doozy. We talk through what has been an incredibly busy year in Open Source, cloud repre, repatriation, AI, ML, chatGPT.

We laid down some really interesting insights and then looked forward not just into 2024 but two years of predictions and trends that we see happening. We cover what we think will be shaking, shaping and shaking the market.

References
basecamp.com/cloud-exit
world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

Transcript: otter.ai/u/13Wdve1WQVCPjXtsf8…?utm_source=copy_url
DALL-E Prompt: futeristic graphic of a hall of mirrors with 2023 turning into 2024 and the cast of the wizard of oz

Tofu vs a Death of Expertise

The TerraForm fork, now known as the OpenTofu project, is our first topic in today’s episode. We discuss what’s going on with that, the challenges, as well as the potential pressures from HashiCorp that created this whole situation.

How do we get experts to recover their authority and how do we look at organizations like that? We have about 20 minutes of really involved conversation about the book, Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, from the previous podcast. If you haven’t heard our first part of the conversation, I suggest you go back and listen to our full Death of Expertise podcast.

We cover two topics, one of them short term and one of them long term. So it’s a nice, balanced industry discussion around what the fork means, what its impacts are and a little bit of recap. There’s some really spicy opinions around 32 minutes in if you want to jump forward, we resume our discussion about death of expertise.

Transcript: otter.ai/u/zGUYDP6DynzxPBNLM9…?utm_source=copy_url
Photo by lil artsy: www.pexels.com/photo/person-abou…ur-dices-1111597/

Hashicorp BSL vs OSS License Discussion

Hashicorp made a license change into a BSL, a business license which is not open source that allows or makes code available, but instead restricts the use of Hashicorp products to people who are effectively paying customers or enterprise customers.

If you’re embedding or repackaging the software or competing with Hashicorp, you are prohibited from using it. We spent this podcast looking into why, how, and what implications there were, as well as historical precedents.

References
* www.runtime.news/hashicorp-closes-a-door/
* opentf.org
* blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-te…pen-ab0b9ba65bca
* spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-lat…t-on-hashicorp-bsl
* ir.hashicorp.com/news-releases/ne…results-fiscal-0
* www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#comp…uct-bsl-coverage
* www.linkedin.com/posts/rhirschfel…7665233920-MxcP/

Photo by BİLAL KARADAĞ: www.pexels.com/photo/yk-1-17939409/
Transcript: otter.ai/u/ZjTzZZiYh_dXri3rSk…?utm_source=copy_url

Nic Jackson on HashiCorp Product Philosophy in Open Source and Feature Minimization

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Nic Jackson, Developer Advocate, HashiCorp (@sheriffjackson). Nic provides insight into the product and development philosophy of HashiCorp and how it impacts their products and open source components. The last section of the podcast on product feature limitations and how companies go too far is very interesting.

” HashiCorp Overview and Design Philosophy of their Solutions
” Company vs Community Open Source Comparison in Terraform
” Abstractions and Portability Failings
” Product Features and Doing Too Much