Hi everyone I am very sad to announce - officially - that Weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. Customers and partners will be working with a financial trustee whom we shall announce soon. The company was turning over double digit (>$10M) revenue and had more than doubled the number of new product logos in 2023. However this sales growth was lumpy and our cash position, consequently volatile. We needed a partner or investor for long term growth. Finally a very promising M&A process with a larger company fell through at the 11th hour. And so we decided to shut down. I can only apologize to everyone for this difficult turn. I could say that this should not have happened, but I know that we are not alone in this market. Bigger vessels have gone astray. The Weaveworks team is a special group and it has been a long and tough journey. I know that everyone has been so motivated to do their very best for our customers, our open source community, and each other. You have done well and can be proud. We shall always have a shared story. Our story has been so exciting - from the first days of containers, struggling to be born. The day when someone got Kubernetes working for the first time on Azure. The start of the CNCF. The day when we wiped out our systems with a keypress. The first months of the Covid pandemic. Then investment and our work to figure out GitOps for a lot of great enterprise customers. And there have been dire moments too but we figured most of them out together. You’ve shared all of this and all deserve every memory of a good place to work, and with the privilege of knowing that all of you are among the best. The story does not end here - our open source software is used everywhere. I am working with several large organizations to make sure CNCF Flux is in the healthiest state. More on that soon. And I would invite anyone who reads this and wants to know what is next or offer some help, please get in touch with me! Thank you. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Alexis Richardson, 5 Feb 2024
Yaron Rosenbaum
2mo
Alexis, I am sorry to read this. I want to share that my experience with you, your team, and the technology you so quickly developed was nothing less than amazing. I learned a lot from you. The stars don't always line up perfectly, but as someone following your work since the garage days of Weave Net, IMO your ability to innovate, build an amazing team, and execute was evident throughout. I hope that there's a way to keep this technology alive, and I hope that you can find the time to share with your community the post-mortem and lessons learned, so that other entrepreneurs may benefit from your experience.
Dave Fellows
3mo
Sad news. I surprised not even an acqui-hire is happening here.
The beauty of open source is that what you have created cannot be undone and is your legacy as a team. It's especially gut wrenching to have an M&A deal pulled at the 11th hour. Knowing you, I know you will have done everything in your power to try to keep Weaveworks going so this is a very brave decision. You must be exhausted so make sure you give yourself some space. DM me any time.
Matt Barker
3mo
You and Weaveworks gave me confidence to start Jetstack, and were always there to help, mentor, and connect. I've always felt a sense of comfort having such a leading cloud native company in London and I'm saddened to know that's come to an end. I can only say that the outstanding work you've done with GitOps, Flux and many of your other projects will live long beyond the commercial operations. Sending you and the team all the best ❤️
Sheng Liang
3mo
The Weaveworks team did a lot to push the industry forward. You did everything in the open and contributed so much for the cloud native community. From the original multi-node Weave Net, to the CNI standard, to the WeaveScope product, to kubeadm, to cloud monitoring, to Prometheus, to eksctl, and of course to GitOps, Flux, and Cortex. Many of these products were way ahead of their time and pointed the way forward for the whole industry. I can't think of another company at a similar scale who has contributed as much. We will remember WeaveWorks.
Saim Safder
3mo
Much 💙 for the @weaveworks team, the team has produced so many talented people who are now my good friends, there have been some proud moments during the journey, sad to hear this news, but my wishes for the best future ahead everyone working in there, Weaveworks will be remembered for its inclusive contributions to (GitOps), flux will be with us for a very long time, thanks to the team.
Lee Calcote
3mo
This news is hard to reconcile against the impact and success of each of Weaveworks' projects from Net to Scope to .... the entire list. I've had products built with either direct use of or integrations with any number of Weaveworks' tools. The legacy of Weaveworks lives on through the continued growth of these tools and the mark that has been made not only on the lives of its employees, but of the many thousands benefiting from Weaveworks visionary work and early stewardship of the cloud native ecosystem.
Richard C.
3mo
So sad. It was a privilege to work at Weaveworks with so many great people. Flux is one of the many innovative & great things to come out of Weaveworks, let’s not forget Weave.net, eksctl, Ignite/Liquid Metal, Scope and others.
Martijn Verburg
3mo
Very sorry to hear this 😞, loved our early stage startup chats and musings on CNCF, OSS and tech in general back in the early days at ShoreditchWorks. You and the weaveworks crew were always gracious and willing to give a hand whether it was wiring network cables around the place or exchanging bits of UI code as we (jClarity) were learning to do visualisations at scale. That leadership and ethos of helping others really shine through at CNCF and the creation of thr gitops movement. I know this won’t be the last we hear from you and the weaveworks crew - enormous talent there! Look forward to seeing what comes next.
Starting something new
3moI’m struggling to make sense of this given the huge positive impact that Weaveworks - and you personally - have had on us as a community. All I can do in the moment is to wish each of you well.