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…
How to build a cost-effective observability platform with OpenTelemetry
The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support…
Building microservices the easy way with Dapr
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits Microservices have been with us for nearly two decades, but it’s still far from easy to develop at scale, in a polyglot environment. The Dapr project, the…
From chaos to clarity: How OpenTelemetry unified observability across clouds
Modern applications rarely live in a single place anymore. One organization’s application footprint was spread across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with some workloads still running on-prem. This multi-cloud approach gave them resilience and flexibility, but it…
Breaking Down Decades-Old Silos in a Regulated Environment A large, global financial services organization developed a system to calculate NAV (Net Asset Value) by integrating it with their existing internal and external systems. Operating in a…
Highlights from CNCF’s first Open Observability Summit
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits It’s about time open observability had its own industry-wide, vendor-neutral event. This year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finally made it happen with the inaugural Open Observability Summit, bringing…
Adding distributed tracing to AI Gateway: My LFX mentorship journey
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, effectively monitoring and debugging AI Gateways has become a critical challenge. This article shares my complete experience through the LFX Mentorship program, where I added OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support to…
The tools for overcoming the top 10 DevOps challenges
DevOps is a way of working that reduces waste. It uses smart tools and practices to build, test, and ship software faster. It makes teams quicker, systems stronger and problems smaller when done right. It’s not…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Observability Day
Observability Day traces its roots back to KubeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia, where we hosted FluentCon, a co-located event dedicated exclusively to the Fluentd and Fluent Bit projects. The gathering was a success, and the feedback…
Dragonfly v2.3.0 has been released
Dragonfly v2.3.0 is released! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the contributors who made this release happen. We welcome you to visit d7y.io website to learn more. Features Persistent Cache Task It designs to provide persistent caching for tasks. This tool can import…