Apple enters the wave of cloud computing recruitment – NewsDio

Apple has hired several well-known software engineers with cloud computing experience in recent months, according to a report from the tech site. Protocol.

The gamut of employees Apple has hired has created "a stir" in the "tight-knit cloud community," and it is a sign that Apple may be planning to build a serious cloud infrastructure to compete with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. .

Employees have experience in containers and Kubernetes. Michael Crosby, for example, known as one of the container engineers in existence today, joined Apple in 2020. Arun Gupta, who worked at Amazon Web Services, joined Apple in February and leads Apple's open source efforts. . Another former AWS employee who worked in managed container services, Maksym Pavlenko, also moved to Apple. Francesc Campoy, a former Google employee, is now at apple working on Kubernetes, an open source container orchestration platform that enables managing containerized applications between hosts.

Apple has also listed multiple job openings that suggest it is working on new tools for its internal software development teams.

Apple already has a massive cloud-based platform spanning iCloud, the App Store, Apple TV +, Apple Music, and more, but it doesn't measure up to the cloud technology used by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Netflix

Apple announced in 2018 plans to invest $ 10 billion in data center construction, and in 2019 it joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that houses Kubernetes and containers.

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