Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model:Balancing the Cathedral with a BazaarDonal Lafferty
ApacheCon 2012 presentation: Sound architecture protects enterprise's investment in an open source project. Strong project leadership can impose and enforce this architecture, but it can stifle innovation and project participation. These competing demands led Apache CloudStack to provide a plugin model for extending its kernel. This talk describes that model using the example of adding Hyper-V support through a plugin.
Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model:Balancing the Cathedral with a BazaarDonal Lafferty
ApacheCon 2012 presentation: Sound architecture protects enterprise's investment in an open source project. Strong project leadership can impose and enforce this architecture, but it can stifle innovation and project participation. These competing demands led Apache CloudStack to provide a plugin model for extending its kernel. This talk describes that model using the example of adding Hyper-V support through a plugin.