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September 2019

How LAIKA uses Mattermost to create award-winning animated films

Making award-winning stop-motion animated films is a complex, time-consuming process. To illustrate, LAIKA—an animation studio based in Hillsboro, Oregon—has released several feature-length films since its 2005 inception, including Coraline, The Boxtrolls, and Missing Link. During peak production periods, the company has more than 550 employees working out of its headquarters and also employs a team of contractors that is spread out across the world.

Why Mattermost built a Kubernetes Operator

Mattermost is a state-of-the-art, highly scalable open source messaging platform for secure team collaboration. Kubernetes is a robust open source container management platform that runs on any land-based or cloud infrastructure and automates the installation, configuration, and maintenance of diverse, highly distributed systems. It sounds like Mattermost and Kubernetes are made for each other. And it’s getting even better.

Popular Slack Alternatives

Slack has been one of the driving forces changing workplace messaging over the last several years, bringing engagement and productivity to professionals across all industries. In January 2019, the company announced it had more than 10 million daily active users, which is quite an accomplishment. But, for a number of reasons, not every organization can use Slack. For starters, Slack is expensive for many organizations that outgrow the company’s free offering.