Last week in LinuxCon/ContainerCon Berlin, I attended a presentation by Luca Bruno of CoreOS, where he described how kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration and scheduling service, and rkt integrate. As part of the presentation, Luca delved into the rkt architecture. For those unaware - there are many, which is a major part of the problem - rkt (pronounced "rocket", as in this) is CoreOS's container management implementation. Nowadays, almost everyone who thinks containers, thinks "

In earlier articles, especially here, we have discussed why great product management is crucial to a company's success. It is the role that is responsible for a product as a whole, the only one that aligns what the product should do, what features it has, where to offer it, at what price points for which packages. Yet many companies seem to do just fine for an extended period of time without product management, especially in the technology sector.

One of the hardest challenges in business is knowing when to use an interim solution and when to start over from scratch. From a pure financial perspective, interim solutions almost always win out. I see this regularly in the software industry. The progress looks something like this: You (i.e. your company) write a piece of software. It is successful and useful and sells and grows. Over time, you add more and more features and capabilities, leading to a more useful but more complex product.

If there is one truism in the technology market, it is that premium pricing just doesn't last. If you are first to succeed in a new market - which is distinct from first to a market - then you often have a premium price product because you are the "first" and often the "best". The problem is that it just doesn't last. No matter how good your IP (Intellectual Property, like patents, not Internet Protocol), eventually competitors catch up with "