Why Unfurl?

Why Unfurl?

With the recent release of Unfurl 1.0, our open-source tool for deploying services and applications, it’s a good time to step back and try to answer the question: Why Unfurl?

Before getting into the big picture let’s focus on its day-to-day usefulness. How is it helpful? Well, have any of these things happened to you?

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Let's build a better Internet with a Free and Open cloud

Let's build a better Internet with a Free and Open cloud

Introduction

This post is about what motivates us to work on this project – our vision of a free and open cloud: what it is, how we can build it, and how it can help create a better Internet.

Practically every time you visit a website or use an app on your phone you are using services running in the cloud. We depend on them to communicate, to learn about the world, to get a job. We’ve come to accept that means entrusting our data and privacy with these opaque, proprietary services. And in turn the overwhelming majority of those services depend on just a handful of cloud providers. (In 2022, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft alone accounted for over 66% of the $217 billion cloud provider marketplace.)

What if we could build cloud applications that were transparent, democratically governed, and independent of the whims of corporations?

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