There’s no doubt that the world of open source has stumbled across a variety of issues in recent years.
Many projects lack the basic funding to sustain despite being some of the world’s largest or most promising software initiatives. Maintainers are stressed out, start-ups are starting to rethink the open-source model entirely, and organizations that leverage OSS tools are left scrambling.
Watch the conversation with Tech Journalist and Nordic APIs' Editor in Chief, Bill Doerrfeld, and Ambassador’s VP of Engineering, Kenn Hussey.
Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and editor specializing in state-of-the-art technologies in the enterprise cloud software space. He is Editor in Chief for Nordic APIs, a knowledge center for API practitioners. He has also written for publications like CIO.com, LeadDev, DevOps.com, Cloud Native Now, The New Stack, and other presences. Originally from Seattle, he now lives and works with his family near Portland, Maine.
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Kenn Hussey is Vice President of Engineering at Ambassador. With over two decades of experience, he is an experienced engineering leader with a passion for DevOps that partners with business and technical teams to drive visibility, alignment, accountability and execution of product delivery with a focus on continuous improvement. Kenn is focused on leading product teams in building cutting-edge tools that drastically improve the way cloud native developers work. His specialties include: DevOps, agile, program management, Puppet, Google Web Toolkit, Eclipse, modeling, Java and unified modeling language (UML). Prior to Ambassador, he was director of program management at Puppet and VP of product development at Cloudsmith.