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Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

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Re: Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

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Post by yeukhon »

Suppose I designed something from scratch at former company, and then I decided to reimplement the same project after leaving the company (and perhaps turn that into an open source project), with mostly new code, but similar concept, would that be considered copyright infringement?

Re: Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

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Post by Illniyar »

yeukhon wrote: post #3

Suppose I designed something from scratch at former company, and then I decided to reimplement the same project after leaving the company (and perhaps turn that into an open source project), with mostly new code, but similar concept, would that be considered copyright infringement?

I doubt it will be "copyright infringement" since the code was rewritten. It might fall under patent infringment if something was patented.

The more likely scenario is that it will constitute a misuse of trade secret either under law or from the contract signed on employment. I am not a lawyer and the law is different in every place but it is likely that such a use would be protected under paw by protections given to professionals to retain expertease gained while practicing their professions. I don't remember how that protection is called.

Re: Linkerd: Twitter-Style Operability for Microservices

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Post by chuhnk »

sulam wrote: post #5

This is actually closer to Google-Style operability than it is to Twitter-Style operability. :) Twitter doesn't have an equivalent of GSLB (software load balancer), which is essentially what this is.

Have you seen Google's GSLB? It's not a proxy and it's a rather complex and powerful system. It aggregates and coordinates traffic flow but doesn't directly do any kind of forwarding. You could maybe think of Linkerd like GFE but even still, GFE acts as an edge gateway rather than internal RPC system. This is like a wrapper around stubby or grpc.

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Post by hmottestad »

hboon wrote: post #9

Totally unrelated: the effect/animation when you hover over the avatars (Safari) at https://buoyant.io/#team is really weird. Not sure if it's intentional.

It's fine in Chrome, but in Safari it's very jittery and animates the wrong images.
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