What is the Bits-Service? - Steffen Uhlig & Peter Goetz, IBM
Channel: Cloud Foundry
Date: 07/10/2016

What is the Bits-Service? - Steffen Uhlig & Peter Goetz, IBM

Did you ever wonder what that mythical ‘bits-service’ incubation project is? Has the CloudFoundry community finally lost their minds and started on a competition with OpenStack Swift or Amazon S3? Hell NO! This talk will introduce the current state and give an outlook to the future of the bits-service project. 

In short, the bits-service is an extraction of an existing functionality in the cloud controller today - externalising everything related to bits (application bits, droplets, packages, buildpacks, …) into a proper micro service. It can be scaled independently, is encapsulated by a well-defined API, so its a generic BLOBSTORE API, right? Mmm…. maybe come and join the team (the first community project equally staffed with engineers of IBM and Pivotal) in the talk and let us handle your bits!

About Peter Goetz
Bluemix Software Developer, IBM

About Steffen Uhlig
Steffen is a software developer, Ruby enthusiast, husband and proud father of two sons. In reverse priority order. He works for IBM's Bluemix organization and currently serves as the team anchor for the CloudFoundry bits-service project.