Since the last time I wrote to you, the Score spec we open sourced has seen an impressive uptake in interest by the community. To give you a feeling: the number of people starring the repo has grown 1240% in the last 14 days. This graph shows it quite astoundingly.
This is amazing, but why did this happen? My colleagues and I are trying to make sense of this ourselves and for now we can merely guess. But here are a number of the key patterns we are observing in the feedback:Â
- Many teams of enterprise architects and platform engineers have built, are about to build or want to standardize their configs around an internal specification.Â
- These teams want to bet on reusable industry standards rather than their home-grown stuff. This makes the skills the devs have to learn more widely applicable in the labor market.Â
- We’ve entered the “valley of sorrow” in the hype-cycle of cloud native products. The industry is realizing that the “you build it you run it” mantra at all costs has failed. As enterprise architects gain more experience, they understand that one helm chart isn’t complicated but hundreds of charts can be overwhelming.
- Score is extremely simple. If you’ve used docker, you can likely use Score.Â
There is some interesting feedback on what to improve:Â
- We have an astounding list of requested implementations including ECS, Cloudrun, Mesos, Nomad and others. We will announce a list of upcoming implementations soon, if you want to build some of those let us know!
- People want to understand how Score relates to the open Application Model or Waypoint. We have a number of content pieces coming in the near future.Â
At Humanitec we build products to help engineers build dynamic Internal Developer Platforms. We’re about protecting the mental health of individual engineers by reducing cognitive load on them.Â
Serving others is the most joyful of things. I’m happy we’re able to serve you, our community and grateful for the outstanding quality of work my colleagues put out on display every single day.Â
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Kind regards from Las VegasÂ
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KasparÂ
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