What's going on with Apple cloud experts gathering one after another?


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It turns out that Apple is pulling multiple cloud-savvy people from its competitors. Regarding this movement, the IT news site Protocol points out that 'Apple, which has been behind in the cloud business for many years, has started a full-scale recovery.'

Apple quietly hiring some of the world's best cloud talent-Protocol
https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers



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`` Apple's cloud business is far behind Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Netflix and others, and has long been a tech community, '' said Tom Krazit, a senior reporter for cloud computing news at Protocol. I have been reluctant to evaluate it as a lap delay in the meantime. '

However, over the last few months, Apple has been hiring and recruiting cloud-related talent that has been striking at other companies. According to Krazit, Michael Crosby , an engineer of container-based virtualization software Docker, Arun Gupta , who led AWS's open source business, Maksym Pavlenko , who was involved in managed container services such as AWS Fargate on AWS , Former Google employee Francesc Campoy has joined Apple.

'It's not entirely clear what Apple thinks, but lots of jobs show that Apple is developing new tools for its internal software development team,' Krazit said. doing.

Until now, Apple has formed an in-house engineering team called Information Systems & Technology (IS & T), and has focused on developing various businesses and services. However, a former IS & T member said, 'I'm in a mess with a tribal turf war because most of the IS & T members are temporary employees hired by competing consulting firms. and is like a nightmare, 'the Cold War on a daily basis has been outbreak has testified , it has been found to be in a state close to the substantially dysfunctional.



Therefore, Apple has switched to a policy of directly hiring human resources, suggesting that the company is reviewing the development system. What Mr. Krazit particularly pays attention to is that many of the personnel hired by Apple are container- related engineers who isolate part of the OS and run the software there.

In 2019, Apple is also participating in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is known as the developer of the open source system Kubernetes for the purpose of container operation management. In addition, Apple has also started a data center construction plan of 10 billion dollars (about 1.7 trillion yen), and is also strengthening its hardware.

'Container technology allows us to get up and down development much faster than ever before. Apple has recently joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and is a prominent member of its community. Has been promoted to several people. ”

“As the smartphone and PC market matures, Apple is increasingly relying on services for its revenue. In this context, we are actively hiring cloud-related technology personnel. I think it's because Apple has come to take seriously the technology that has been supporting the service behind the scenes, 'he said.

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