How Kubernetes Speeds Innovation
There's a good reason businesses of all kinds are embracing the open source container clustering technology.
January 11, 2018
Whether you’re a startup trying to disrupt a market or a stalwart attempting to gain ground on your competitors, business is increasingly about innovation. Software, it turns out, is soft and companies are embracing this malleability to find innovation.
Need proof that companies in all verticals are embracing this? Pick any company and do this Google search: software developer jobs. When I did this recently, I found that consumer goods giant Proctor & Gamble has more than 40 job openings for software developers. Wal-Mart, which sells the products, has more than 90, and Ford more than 60. None of these companies are based in Silicon Valley or generally thought of as technology leaders, but these days, every company is a software company.
If you’re going to spend all that money on a software development staff, what techniques would increase the odds that they find the innovation management is so desperately after?
Most modern application development tuned to innovation discovery is based on Kubernetes, the open source container clustering technology. Why? A microservices-based application architecture running on Kubernetes maximizes the number of iterations a team of developers can churn out in a year.
Most ideas fail
The best way to understand why maximizing the number of iterations on software is the driving factor for innovation is to examine the venture capital (VC) market. After all, VC investors are looking to find disruptive technologies that can change industries, typically through innovation. CB Insights analyzed VC returns and found the following: