Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS
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Re: Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS
#2could anyone more familiar with the situation give context around the decision + what is happening moving forward?
Thanks
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#3"But we didn't achieve the development velocity over the 8 months that we had hoped for when we started out, and as such we didn't achieve the depth of community engagement we had hoped for either."
Open source is tough, even as a successful VC funded company. Gotta give credit to CoreOS though, rather than beating a dead horse they're acknowledging there's little external interest and their time would be better spent focused elsewhere. Seeing as they've discontinued Fleet as well it's likely they're doubling down on the commercial Tectonic product built on kubernetes. There's also likely pressure from their investors to start making money, especially as they're well into using their series B and might want to look to raise more money.
Distributed file storage is a tough market in itself. Developers get excited about technology but how many need this as opposed to a highly available database? I love the building blocks of distributed systems and understand that Google's technology is built on a layering of tech (Colossus, Spanner, etc) but it seems the world is not yet ready. Everyone is already struggling to understand the complexities of this new ecosystem and how the pieces all fit together.
Again, good move by CoreOS, wish them luck with their commercial strategy.
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#4Well that seems eminently reasonable
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#5Does anyone have experience with https://rook.io/ which is mentioned in the message?
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#6Those of us in the game for some time ultimately read "beta" to mean "30% chance of survival" so this doesn't come as a surprise but it probably isn't true for our more optimistic colleagues.
I think more tempered marketing would have really helped.
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#7Bcantrill on how hard such a feat would be to accomplish.
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#8I called it here, right at the initial announcement:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816951
This is just too hard of a problem to solve frivolously. Kudos to CoreOS for trying, and coming to the inevitable conclusion sooner rather than later.
Re: Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS
#9could anyone more familiar with the situation give context around the decision + what is happening moving forward? Thanks
Nothing of value was lost, don't worry about it. People reinventing the wheel, realised it takes a lot more than they are capable of. Same old, same old.
Re: Torus development has been stopped at CoreOS
#10Those of us in the game for some time ultimately read "beta" to mean "30% chance of survival" so this doesn't come as a surprise but it probably isn't true for our more optimistic colleagues. I think more tempered marketing would have really helped.
For reference: https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos....
"Releasing today's initial version of Torus is just the beginning of our effort to build a world-class cloud-native distributed storage system..." 2016-06
"Torus development has stopped on Core OS" 2017-02
Simply pointing out what is the case.