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Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance

Posted on February 9, 2022

Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML against its…


Envoy Fundamentals, a training course to enable faster adoption of Envoy Proxy

Posted on February 4, 2022

Guest post by Tetrate Envoy Proxy, an open-source edge and service proxy, is a vital part of today’s modern, cloud-native application and is used in production by large companies like Booking.com, Pinterest, and Airbnb(Source). Tetrate, a top contributor…


Building a fault-tolerant application stack on top of a dynamic foundation

Posted on January 6, 2022 | By Mark Swarbrick

Guest post by Mark Swarbrick, Head of Infrastructure at Bink Powering digital loyalty transactions of some of the biggest banks in the UK with Linkerd  Bink, a fintech company based in the UK, has made it their mission…


Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio: 2021 redux

Posted on December 17, 2021 | By William Morgan

Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan Earlier this year, we published Linkerd vs Istio benchmarks comparing the performance and resource consumption of the two service meshes on a simple microservice application under various levels of load….


LFX fall program 2021: A successful season with 37 graduated interns!

Posted on December 16, 2021 | By Ihor Dvoretskyi

Post by Ihor Dvoretskyi CNCF has had great experiences hosting interns through the LFX program since 2019, helping hundreds of developers get started in open source technology. This year was no exception, with 37 interns across 16 Graduated,…


The Kubernetes’ open source tools to check out in 2022

Posted on December 15, 2021 | By Jonathan Kaftzan

Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Jonathan Kaftzan, VP Marketing & Business Development at ARMO In 2014, Kubernetes surfaced from work at Google and quickly became the de facto standard for container management and orchestration. Despite its silicon…


Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd

Posted on December 13, 2021 | By Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir

Guest post by Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir, Platform Team at Salt Security At Salt Security, we pioneered API security. Purpose-built to protect APIs across their entire life cycle, the Salt platform enables our customers to prevent API…


Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials Training and KCNA Certification Now Available

Posted on November 18, 2021

New training course from CNCF and The Linux Foundation provides basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud native architectures and helps prepare for new entry-level certification SAN FRANCISCO – November 18, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization…


A first timer’s journey at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

Posted on November 12, 2021

Guest post originally published on Dev.to by Purneswar Prasad Let’s have some context: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon is one of the biggest conferences in the world where users, developers and companies who have/want to adopt the Cloud Native standard of running applications and…


A guide to choosing an Ingress Controller, part 1: identify your requirements

Posted on October 20, 2021 | By Jenn Gile

Guest post originally published on the NGINX blog by Jenn Gile, Manager, Product Marketing at F5 This is the first blog post in our series on how to choose a Kubernetes Ingress controller. A Guide to Choosing an…