In 2019, 132-year old European financial services company Allianz SE founded Allianz Direct in response to disruption in the insurance space. To keep up with digital-first competitors, like the big four (GAFA), Allianz Direct developed digital models for...

mTLSing services with Linkerd at scale without impacting developer productivity  Guest post by Christian Hüning, Director Cloud Technologies & Switchkit at Finleap Connect At Finleap Connect, we operate multiple high-density bare-metal Kubernetes clusters with up to 5,000 pods...

Project post originally published on Vitess’ blog by Florent Poinsard The Vitess maintainers are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 13. Major Themes #   In this release, Vitess maintainers have made significant progress in several areas,...

Project post originally published on Flux’s blog by Daniel Holbach Flux – built with security in mind You don’t get to re-architect a successful project very often, but we did about two years ago. The Flux project was...

Guest post originally published on Netris’s blog by Alex Saroyan Everyone knows that using a Kubernetes Load Balancer is a challenge. Back in the day when I was responsible for network operations, the load balancer management was under...

Guest post by Ankur Dahiya, RunX Engineers today work inside a perpetual good news-bad news dichotomy. On one hand, the tools, infrastructure and capabilities at their disposal give them what an engineer ten years ago would probably consider...

Users of Apache Cassandra who haven’t updated their systems in the last couple of days should consider an upgrade, as JFrog identified a high severity remote code execution issue in the database project. The vulnerability affects all teams...

Guest post originally published on Elastisys’ blog by the Elastisys‘ team Designing scalable cloud native applications requires considerable thought, as there are many challenges to overcome. Even with the great clouds we have today for deploying our applications,...

Guest post by Tamao Nakahara, VP of Developer Experience, Weaveworks  The Benefits of Stability and Reliability  If you’ve come to this blog post, you’re probably interested in ways to be able to trust that everything will go well...

A new report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in collaboration with Datadog, New Relic and Slashdata finds a wider range of emerging open source technologies are being deployed on top of Kubernetes. The report, based on...