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Back in April, I talked about how we re-built the public cloud at Rackspace and how we leveraged the three principles of open source, cloud on cloud and continuous delivery.

Here at Rackspace we view OpenStack as the operating system of the cloud. We believe that the openness and large community that has developed around OpenStack provides value for consumers by empowering them with flexibility and optimization options. Consumers can use OpenStack to power an on premise cloud or a cloud hosted by a provider.

At OpenStack Summit San Diego this week Rackspace released a pair of software development kits (SDKs) to make it easier for developers to build applications and accelerate their adoption of the cloud.

With an audience estimated at 1,400 at OpenStack Summit San Diego on Tuesday, OpenStack Foundation Executive Director and Rackspace Cloud founder Jonathan Bryce outlined three key reasons OpenStack will succeed.

The momentum OpenStack Summit San Diego built up on day one continued through day two with other key OpenStack announcements and presentations.

The OpenStack Summit San Diego is in full swing. This year, the Summit combines the developer design portion and the conference, targeting veteran OpenStack developers, business owners interested in OpenStack and newcomers to the project. All told, 1,400 attendees are expected at the Summit.

Repose is an open-source RESTful HTTP proxy service that scales to the cloud. Repose provides a solution to common API processing tasks such as rate limiting, client authentication, translation, API validation, versioning and logging so web service developers can focus on the unique features of their services.

Mike Aeschliman recently joined Rackspace as the head of product and engineering for Rackspace Private Cloud, a role he moved halfway across the country to take on.

Today is a huge day for the OpenStack community – Rackspace officially hands off the management of the project and all its assets to the independent OpenStack Foundation. We’ve planned for this day since Rackspace founded OpenStack with NASA just over two years ago, and it is a major milestone for OpenStack, the community and Rackspace.

OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.