Apple is beginning the process of shifting all of its cloud-based services to the open-source platform Mesos, The Information reports. After migrating Siri to Mesos earlier this year, Apple is combining all its cloud services onto one platform in the hopes of making it easier to deploy and scale new applications.
The move will also make integrating all of Apple’s myriad products less cumbersome, but the company could have other motivations as well, with the report noting that Apple’s past secrecy about its code and internal technology has made it difficult to recruit open-source developers whose portfolios rely on being able to share their work publicly. Regardless of the reasons for the switch, implementing the changes is expected to take years to finish, so users won’t see the results of the shift for quite some time.
[via 9to5Mac]
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