FOSSMeet'24

As this famous XKCD comic reminds us frequently, standards tend to proliferate.

It usually goes like this:

1. A standard emerges to unify different projects/their standards.
2. The unified standard has limitations the implementors want to overcome.
3. Implementations diverge from the standard because of these limitations.
4. Each implementation now has its own standard.
5. A new standard emerges to unify these different standards.

And repeat.

In this talk, we will explore how this happens in practice and look at ways in which this can be mitigated with the example of the Kubernetes Ingress and Gateway APIs.