Square: How Vitess enables ‘near unlimited scale’ for Cash App
Four years ago, Square branched out into peer-to-peer transactions via its Cash App. After doing so, users started increasing by the minute and they needed to come up with a long term solution for scalability. Vitess…
SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted its second cloud-based storage project, Vitess, just a week after voting in its first storage project Rook. The second storage project – and CNCF’s 16th hosted project – is…
The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
Container Journal: "CNCF adds Vitess database orchestration project"
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week has decided to accept Vitess as a new project. Vitess is a database orchestration system developed at YouTube that automatically shards instances…
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Vitess as the 16th hosted project, alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF and Rook. Vitess has been accepted as…
CNCF Joins Google Summer of Code 2025 – Calling All Contributors!
We’re thrilled to share that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has once again been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for 2025! This program is a fantastic opportunity for new contributors—especially students—to…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces CubeFS Graduation
Open source distributed storage system is used by 200+ organizations storing 350 petabytes of data SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 21, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
TechCrunch: “Dapr graduates to become a CNCF top-level project”
Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open source runtime for helping developers build secure and resilient distributed applications, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) pool of incubating projects to become a top-level project at the same level of…
Community post by Adam Korczynski, Adalogics and Jan Dubois, Lima maintainer Lima, a CNCF sandbox project for launching virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding, recently completed a fuzzing audit. As part of the…
Congratulations to 45 CNCF Term 2 2024 LFX Program mentees!
Mentorship blog by Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship & Documentation at CNCF We are thrilled to share that 45 CNCF mentees with the LFX Program have successfully completed their mentorship. Numerous CNCF projects across Graduated, Incubating,…