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Introducing the end user case study redesign ⁠- now with filtering!
Introducing the end user case study redesign ⁠- now with filtering!
For the past three years, we’ve been talking to CNCF end users around the globe and sharing their stories about how cloud native technologies are having real-world impact on their businesses. These case studies all live on the CNCF...
August 20, 2019

How Kubernetes works
How Kubernetes works
Guest Post from Jef Spaleta, originally published on The Sensu Blog. It’s no secret that the popularity of running containerized applications has exploded over the past several years. Being able to iterate and release an application by provisioning its dependencies through...
August 19, 2019

CNCF archives the rkt project
CNCF archives the rkt project
As part of a new Archiving Process initiated earlier this year, CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to archive the rkt project. All open source projects are subject to a lifecycle and can become less active for a number...
August 16, 2019 | By Chris Aniszczyk

How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
Next time you get sucked into a quiz or poll on a media site like The Telegraph or Time, you can thank Apester⁠’s drag-and-drop interactive content platform⁠-and its usage of cloud native technologies like Linkerd. With a microservice...
August 15, 2019

2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
It’s time for the CNCF Cloud Native Survey! The goal of this survey, which will be issued in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (November 18-21, 2019), is to understand the state of Kubernetes, container, and serverless adoption and...
August 8, 2019 | By Kim McMahon

Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Last year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) began the process of performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for its projects in order to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. The idea was to start with...
August 6, 2019 | By Chris Aniszczyk

Diversity scholarship series: Experiencing Kubernetes Day India 2019
Diversity scholarship series: Experiencing Kubernetes Day India 2019
Guest post by Atibhi Agrawal, originally published on Medium.  I had been hearing the buzzword Kubernetes and cloud computing for a long time but I had no idea what it was. One day my senior Rajula Vineet Reddy posted on our college’s Facebook...
August 5, 2019

How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
China’s largest retailer, JD.com defines hyperscale: The e-commerce business serves more than 300 million active customers. And in the past few years, as the company’s data ballooned, its MySQL databases became larger, resulting in declining performance and higher...
August 1, 2019

Announcing Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney: expanding cloud native engagement across the globe
Announcing Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney: expanding cloud native engagement across the globe
Today we’re excited to announce the first two Kubernetes Forums in Seoul and Sydney, which we are launching this December in Seoul, South Korea from December 9-10, and Sydney, Australia from December 12-13. Kubernetes Forum in global cities bring together...
July 31, 2019

How CreditEase, Pinterest, Slamtec, Ant Financial and ING experienced faster iterations and production times
How CreditEase, Pinterest, Slamtec, Ant Financial and ING experienced faster iterations and production times
Kubernetes enables CreditEase, Pinterest, Ant Financial, Slamtec and ING to overcome a multitude of challenges experienced as they looked to scale. By investing in Kubernetes and cloud native technology, these companies experienced reduced build times and massive efficiency...
July 31, 2019