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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
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Demystifying Kubernetes as a service – How Alibaba cloud manages 10,000s of Kubernetes clusters
Demystifying Kubernetes as a service – How Alibaba cloud manages 10,000s of Kubernetes clusters
Guest post by Zhimin Tang, Xiang Li and Fei Guo of Alibaba Abstract Since 2015, the Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) has been one of the fastest growing cloud services on Alibaba Cloud. Today,...
December 12, 2019

How Jaeger helped Grafana Labs improve query performance and root out tough bugs
How Jaeger helped Grafana Labs improve query performance and root out tough bugs
The company behind the popular open source Grafana project, Grafana Labs offers customers a hosted metrics platform called Grafana Cloud, which incorporates Metrictank, a Graphite-compatible metrics service, and Cortex, the CNCF sandbox project for multitenant, horizontally...
December 11, 2019

AutoTiKV: TiKV tuning made easy by AI and machine learning
AutoTiKV: TiKV tuning made easy by AI and machine learning
Guest post originally published in Chinese by Yuanli Wang, PingCap Modern database management systems (DBMS) are notorious for being complicated and having too many configuration options-or “knobs”- that mostly determine how the system performs. The traditional...
December 10, 2019

CNCF TOC governance structure + elections 2020
CNCF TOC governance structure + elections 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that is responsible for defining and maintaining...
December 6, 2019 | Amye Scavarda Perrin

CNCF to participate again in the community bridge mentorship program
CNCF to participate again in the community bridge mentorship program
I’m happy to announce that CNCF will participate again in the Community Bridge Mentorship program. As well as Google Summer of Code and Outreachy, Community Bridge is a platform that brings an opportunity to offer paid...
December 5, 2019 | Ihor Dvoretskyi

How Kubernetes has been ‘transformational’ to productivity and culture at uSwitch
How Kubernetes has been ‘transformational’ to productivity and culture at uSwitch
When it was founded in 2000, uSwitch helped consumers in the U.K. compare prices for their utilities. The company eventually expanded to include comparison and switching tools for a wide range of verticals, including broadband service,...
December 4, 2019

Kubernetes audit: making log auditing a viable practice again
Kubernetes audit: making log auditing a viable practice again
Originally published on Alcide Blog by Nitzan Niv In the security world, one of the most established methods to identify that a system was compromised, abused or mis-configured is to collect logs of all the activity...
December 3, 2019

Case study: TiKV in JD Cloud
Case study: TiKV in JD Cloud
Guest post by Can Cui, Infrastructure Specialist at JD Cloud JD Cloud, is a full-service cloud computing platform and integrated cloud service provider. Like Microsoft Azure, we deliver comprehensive cloud computing services ranging from infrastructure building...
November 26, 2019

How Slack leverages Vitess to keep up with its ever-growing storage needs
How Slack leverages Vitess to keep up with its ever-growing storage needs
If you live on Slack, multiply your usage by millions of active users worldwide and you’ll quickly understand why the company ran into data storage challenges. In the fall of 2016, Slack was dealing with hundreds...
November 25, 2019

Announcing the CNCF job board
Announcing the CNCF job board
We are excited to announce the availability of the CNCF job board, the official job board of CNCF. According to the 2018 Linux Foundation Open Source Jobs Report, containers are rapidly growing in popularity and importance,...
November 19, 2019

kubectl flags in your plugin
kubectl flags in your plugin
Originally posted by Gianluca Arbezzano on Gianarb.it This is not at all a new topic, no hacking involved, but it is something everybody needs to know where we design kubectl plugin. I was recently working at...
November 15, 2019

Kubernetes Scheduler 101
Kubernetes Scheduler 101
Originally published on Magalix Blog by Mohamed Ahmed What is Kubernetes Scheduling? If you’ve read any Kubernetes documentation, books, or articles you’ve undoubtedly seen the word “schedule” in phrases like “the Pod gets scheduled to the next available node” for example....
November 11, 2019

Announcing the CNCF Prometheus project journey report
Announcing the CNCF Prometheus project journey report
Today we are very excited to release our Project Journey Report for Prometheus. This is the third report we have issued for CNCF graduated projects following reports for Kubernetes and Envoy. Prometheus is a widely-adopted open source metrics-based monitoring and alerting...
November 7, 2019

Cloud native chaos engineering – Enhancing Kubernetes application resiliency
Cloud native chaos engineering – Enhancing Kubernetes application resiliency
Guest post by Uma Mukkara, COO, MayaData Extending cloud native principles to chaos engineering Faults are bound to happen no matter how hard you test to find them before putting your software into production – clouds...
November 6, 2019

Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft are the focus of many technical articles. But those articles tend...
November 4, 2019

Why you should join the CNCF Meetup program
Why you should join the CNCF Meetup program
With the recent changes to Meetup’s policies, we wanted to share a reminder of the benefits of joining the CNCF Meetup Program and encourage Meetups in the CNCF ecosystem to apply. As part of our Meetup Pro membership, CNCF...
November 1, 2019

A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
AlphaSense had already been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. when it made Fortune’s Top 50 AI Startups list in 2017. “From this point, we realized that we needed to be prepared for...
November 1, 2019

Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Originally published on Medium by Mohamed Ahmed Kubernetes at its core is a resources management and orchestration tool. It is ok to focus day-1 operations to explore and play around with its cool features to deploy,...
October 29, 2019

Apple provides scholarships for FoundationDB Summit
Apple provides scholarships for FoundationDB Summit
Apple will be providing sponsorships for the scholarships at FoundationDB Summit, happening on Day Zero of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon San Diego. For its second year, FoundationDB Summit has two tracks. The first is curated for attendees...
October 25, 2019

Announcing Kubernetes forums in Bengaluru and Delhi, India
Announcing Kubernetes forums in Bengaluru and Delhi, India
We’re going to India! Following the inaugural Kubernetes forums in Seoul and Sydney, we’re heading to India for our next pair of events! We’ll be in Bengaluru from February 17-18, 2020, followed by Delhi from February...
October 23, 2019