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I won't speculate on the top-level strategies of companies competing with another, so take this as a grain of salt. From my perspective (maintainer, employed b
by phillipcarter 4y ago
I won't speculate on the top-level strategies of companies competing with another, so take this as a grain of salt.
From my perspective (maintainer, employed by a vendor), all of us who work for these different companies collaborate very well together. We all recognize that it's both technically tractable and fundamentally user-friendly to make instrumentation be a common standard that anyone can use to point at any of the OSS and commercial tools in this space. There's plenty to differentiate on with telemetry backends, querying experiences, API capabilities, data analysis tools and UX, etc. We have a long way to go to see this vision fully realized, but it's quite far along and I have no doubt we'll arrive at the right outcome here.
- jiggawatts 4y agoEverything you've just said is compatible with what I've said. The vendors are concerned about being left out at the "source", and are seeking to differentiate with their proprietary "sink", usually closed-source SaaS solutions. I'm not even arguing that this is bad, it's just how markets work, and it's currently beneficial to developers in general, including both open-source developers and the type working in a cubicle farm somewhere.
- phillipcarter 4y ago...sure? I guess I'm saying that I don't really care about this speculation, since the reality on the ground is that we all collaborate.