LFX Spring 2022 Mentorships are open – Apply for CNCF projects by February 13th!
By Ihor Dvoretskyi, Senior Developer Advocate, CNCF For the fourth year in a row, CNCF will be participating in LFX with a record-breaking 42 project ideas available to mentees. LFX is a platform that enables organizations…
Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
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…
How to select a Network Gateway for your Private Cloud
Guest post originally published on Netris’ blog by Alex Saroyan Let’s be honest, nobody wants to deal with networking, but we can’t serve our applications without investing time and money in developing a good network design and…
WasmEdge and OpenYurt bring cloud computing to the edge
Guest post by Vivian Hu and Michael Yuan from Second State with the help from Chen Jin from the OpenYurt project. Edge computing is a distributed application architecture that places computational resources (eg, CPU and storage)…
Experience as an LFX Mentee for Chaos Mesh
Mentorship guest post by Chunxu Zhang I am a graduate student studying software engineering at Nanjing University. My research focuses on DevOps, which has intrinsic connections with chaos engineering and observability. To get involved in the…
CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project. OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and…
Securing cloud native comms: from ingress to service mesh and beyond
Guest post originally published on Ambassador Labs’ blog by Jason Morgan As developers and operators, we all know the importance of securing data both in transit and at rest. However, hardly a day goes by that…
CNCF End User Lounge: Salt Security
In 2020, Salt Security started to grow quickly and our platform needed to scale fast. That led to a few challenges including backward compatibility issues. To address that we moved to gRPC but, since load balancing…
Hunting API traffic anomalies with minimal downtime The Salt Security platform delivers the simplest, most comprehensive, and most effective API security by tapping AI and big data. The platform works by continuously monitoring and learning from…
Chaos Mesh + SkyWalking: better observability for chaos engineering
Guest post originally published on the PingCAP blog by Ningxuan Wang Chaos Mesh is an open-source cloud-native chaos engineering platform. You can use Chaos Mesh to conveniently inject failures and simulate abnormalities that might occur in reality, so you…