Parallel development
Cake’s CTO Thomas previously worked at IBM as a chief architect, and more recently he was a distinguished engineer and director of strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which acquired a previous company he worked at called MapR.

Thomas says he has worked across hundreds of projects through the years, with large and smaller customers, and he noticed a trend permeating pretty much all of them — every one was using open-source tools in some way, much of it fresh out of research labs. Still, using them in the enterprise wasn’t easy.