How Cilium uses BPF to supercharge Kubernetes networking & security
Kubernetes has ushered in an era of complex and often large-scale microservices applications running as containers that are updated frequently via CI/CD, yet still leverages underlying network technologies like iptables built for an era of simple…
How to Get the Most Out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,…
The Challenge: Scaling Past Conntrack Limits Zynga’s 12-person Kubernetes platform engineering team, spanning North America, Spain, and India, provides game developers with infrastructure to build games quickly and maintain high availability. The team has been running…
Highlights Solution: eBPF-Powered Networking for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes In its first-generation MKS architecture, OVHcloud used Canal (Calico + Flannel) as the CNI. This stack worked well, Calico provided network policy enforcement while Flannel handled VXLAN-based networking, but…
How an enterprise-grade AI copilot company saved 45% on cloud costs, achieved 95% cost attribution, and prevented over 90 anomalies “We needed a FinOps automation platform that could track and act on routine engineering tasks, allowing…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Top sessions from the CNCF End User TAB
2025 brought significant developments in the cloud native landscape, with a strong focus on AI but new projects and end user reports in many other areas. As always, KubeCon is one of the key places we…
The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Solution: Turning compliance challenges Into a secure, scalable network As regulatory requirements tightened, UW–Madison needed a network layer that could deliver fine-grained control without sacrificing performance. The team migrated from Calico to Cilium, gaining an eBPF-powered…
Code-level telemetry instrumentation: From “oh hell no” to “worth it”
A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us – yes, please. With code-level insights…