SkyWalking with Sheng Wu Contributor

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sheng Wu (@wusheng1108) discuss Apache SkyWalking, an open-source APM tool focusing on cloud-native and distributed systems. SkyWalking was originally developed in 2012 as a training tool for developers new to distributed systems architecture, but it became Sheng’s pet project for several years until he brought it to the Apache Incubator program. Listen to today’s episode for the inside scoop of how this “hidden gem” fits into the Apache network of open-source software projects.

In this episode we discuss:


Why open-source APMs are not very common
SkyWalking’s focus on attracting more contributors rather than users
How a conflict of interest at Huawei led to a “bake-off” between Apache and CNCF
The impact of Elastic changing their license on the open-source community
The name “Skywalking,” its sources of inspiration, and an easter egg

Links:


Apache SkyWalking
Kubernetes
The Apache Incubator
CNCF
Tetrate
Apache ShardingSphere
Apache APISIX
Envoy Proxy
Apache Airflow
Apache Beam
Dynatrace
New Relic
Elastic
Helm
Zipkin

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