
While both looked good to us, we could not decide by simply reading their documentation and marketing material. We knew we needed a tool to communicate with our community and there were two main tools on the market: Discord and Slack.

We needed to build a community to exchange with them, allow them to learn and help each other. One of the main issues we had with the Luos microservices orchestrator, beyond the open source project itself, was to understand the expectations and problems faced by developers working in the embedded and edge domain. This also allows you to have a direct exchange with community members who understand what you are doing and to benefit mutually from helping each other do better. It allows you to centralize knowledge about your project, your audience, their problems and how to solve them. As a team working on a project, the desire to develop a community around an idea must have occurred more than once.
