How OpenTelemetry is eating the world
It has been said that open source software is eating the world and in the observability space, the project behind this movement is OpenTelemetry. The project recently entered beta and is quickly becoming the standard for…
A brief history of OpenTelemetry (So Far)
by Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTracing and member of the OpenTelemetry governing committee, and Morgan McLean, Product Manager for OpenCensus at Google since the project’s inception After many months of planning, discussion, prototyping, more discussion, and…
Impact: Building OLogs: A petabyte-scale platform on CNCF foundations OpenAI’s optimization enabled OLogs, with their internal log platform processing 9+ petabytes daily, built entirely on CNCF projects: The platform provides OLogs Query Language (“OQL”) for quick…
Lima becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Lima as a CNCF incubating project. Lima enables secure, isolated environments for running cloud native and AI workloads. What is Lima? Where Does It Fit in…
KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KServe as a CNCF incubating project. KServe joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. What is KServe?…
OpenFGA Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenFGA as a CNCF incubating project. What is OpenFGA? OpenFGA is an authorization engine that addresses the challenge of implementing complex access control at scale in…
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…
CNCF Ambassador’s reflections on 10 years of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits “Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a new open standardization initiative recently formed under the Linux Foundation with the mission of providing standard reference architecture for cloud native applications…
Bringing data center observability into the cloud native world
When people talk about cloud-native observability, the conversation usually revolves around applications, containers, and microservices. However, under those layers lies an equally critical foundation: The physical data center. Servers, storage systems, and networks ultimately host every…
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…