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Understanding how open source connects antifragile, undifferentiated heavy lifting, and tech debt

It is important to recognize that undifferentiated heavy lifting and technical debt are different from antifragility but related.

Undifferentiated heavy lifting is an effort that the customer doesn’t notice or care about. For example, whether your favorite bank builds its own server operating system or uses an established vendor’s operating system makes little difference to the online banking user experience, if things go well. However, it exposes the organization and its customer to more cost and risk because the bank’s core business isn’t building operating systems but providing banking and financial services industry-related products and services. While I don’t know any bank that builds its own operating systems, there are banks that are cobbling together fundamental services such as IAM, storage, logging, and monitoring with either their DIY or...

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Ahilan Ponnusamy

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a GTM specialist for Application Platform at Red Hat based in Singapore. He enjoys working with customers to deliver real value on hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices. Ahilan completed his Master of Computer Applications from MKU, India in 1999. His work history includes the likes of Philips CE in Eindhoven Netherlands, BEA technologies as a member of Customer Centric Engineering and support in India and USA, Pre-sales Tech-lead for cloud platform team at Oracle USA, Principal platform engineer at VMware, Global Architect at Dell Technologies Singapore. Originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Ahilan currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two boys.
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Andreas Spanner

Andreas Spanner is currently working as Chief Architect within the CTO Organization at Red Hat. Prior to his role as the Chief Architect for Australia & New Zealand, Andreas worked across the globe in many different industries ranging from automotive, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics to telco, FSI and public sector on areas such as ERP, CRM, HR, and payroll data and processes migrations, Internet security appliances, and B2B marketplaces. He has delivered Just-In-Time-logistics and series production systems for customers such as BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes. Andreas completed his engineering degree in Germany and got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old. Originally from Bavaria, Andreas now lives in Sydney, Australia.
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