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State of the Ecosystem

· 3 min read
Jorge O. Castro
Jorge O. Castro
Director of Dinosaurs

I thought I'd take some time to talk a bit about the world around us. I've come back from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam super energized and have been taking this week off to recharge and relax.

I'll be talking about Bluefin and friends a bit later - we're gearing up for release and everything is humming along nicely. Let's talk about where we are.

Our target audience​

Let's talk about numbers that matter to us. Here's the rollup:

  • Cloud Native Developer Growth is up to ~20 million developers - This one snuck up on me, since we last reported 15.6 million in November of last year. That's a 28% increase in six months! And 7.3 million AI developers are now working in the cloud native space. Our audience continues to grow.
  • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU hit 13,500+ attendees, not only was it the largest KubeCon ever, but it was the largest open source conference in the world.
  • Flahub had 21.6% Year over Year growth last year.

KubeCon

What this means​

First off it means a lot of tired developers. The bootc booths and talks were well attended, and everyone was talking about platform engineering and the challenges of infrastructure at scale. These are the lessons we want to bring into Bluefin and friends, we are a tiny little chicken in a world of giants. We must be crafty and efficient!

I received tons of feedback and "tell your friends hello!", but here's the lessons as I see them:

  • Our choice of developer tooling and investment in DX is a huge strength - people want standardized tooling across the board.
  • We will do the same for AI tooling by shipping things like Goose and linux-mcp-server to serve those developers. Everyone is using these tools, and everyone wants these tools in VMs and containers to keep a barrier between these agents and their host. I expect this year will lead to more tooling in this space as developers figure it out.
  • We will continue to support a distribution-agnostic application store that focuses on meeting the needs of application developers first and foremost.

Not into any of those things?​

Kick back and enjoy your computer!

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