{"id":9276,"date":"2020-07-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:29:19","slug":"thank-you-to-the-last-decade-hello-to-the-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/thank-you-to-the-last-decade-hello-to-the-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You to the Last Decade, Hello to the Next!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wow, 10 years. Many amazing tech milestones happened in 2010. Steve Jobs launched the first iPad. Sprint announced its first 4G phone. Facebook reached 500 million users. For us perhaps, one of the most important milestones was the birth of the OpenStack project in 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In real time, the pace of change in the tech industry often feels glacial, but looking at things over a 10-year span, a lot of stark differences have emerged since 2010. So before you plug back your AirPods, fire up Fornite and watch a new show on Disney<\/a>+, let\u2019s take a look at how OpenStack has transformed the open source industry in the past 10 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The Decade Challenge\u2014OpenStack Edition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What began as an endeavor to bring greater choice in cloud solutions to users, combining Nova for compute from NASA with Swift for object storage from Rackspace, has since grown into a strong base for open infrastructure. In 2010, three years before the OpenStack Summit Hong Kong, \u201cthe cloud\u201d was barely a thing. Having a standardized, open source platform for public and private clouds was a dream. Now OpenStack is not only the de facto standard, but also a massive market that critical industries rely on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back to OpenStack in 2010, we were ecstatic to celebrate our first year of growth<\/a> from a couple dozen developers to nearly 250 unique contributors in the Austin release (the first OpenStack release). Fast Forward to 2020, OpenStack ranks among the top three most active open source projects in the world, and is the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. Developers from around the world work together on a six-month release cycle with developmental milestones. 10 years in, OpenStack has had<\/p>\n\n\n\n