Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern Kafka-API storage system
Member Post Thread-Per-Core Buffer Management for a modern Kafka-API storage system
Guest post originally published on Vectorized.io’s blog by Alexander Gallego, Founder and CEO at Vectorized.io As I have previously observed, software does not run on category theory, it runs on superscalar CPUs with wide, multi-channel GB/s memory units...
January 21, 2021 | By Alexander Gallego

TechGenix: “Top Open-Source CNCF Security Projects and Why They Matter – Part 2”
TechGenix: “Top Open-Source CNCF Security Projects and Why They Matter – Part 2”
Welcome to part 2 of a two-part series on security for cloud-native applications. In part 1, we highlighted three CNCF security projects — Falco, SPIRE, and Notary, which are CNCF incubating projects. In this article, we look at...
January 20, 2021

Spark Operator and S3: 4 Integration Steps to  Operator Flames
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Guest post originally published by Allison Richardet, Principal Software Development Engineer, Mastercard At MasterCard, the Internal Cloud Team maintains our on-premises Kubernetes platform. Our work includes maintaining Kubernetes clusters, the core deployments we rely on and provide our...
January 20, 2021 | By Allison Richardet

The New Stack: “The First Six Months: CNCF Observations and 2021 Vision”
The New Stack: “The First Six Months: CNCF Observations and 2021 Vision”
Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as general manager has been an amazing journey. When I started as GM last year, my goal was to understand the needs of the community by listening and then build from...
January 20, 2021

TechGenix: “Top Open-Source CNCF Security Projects and Why They Matter – Part 1”
TechGenix: “Top Open-Source CNCF Security Projects and Why They Matter – Part 1”
Security has long been the biggest challenge for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes. However, one look at the top CNCF projects shows a lack of security-only ventures. This was especially noticeable in 2019. However, in 2020, the...
January 19, 2021

Rancher: an open source platform for cloud native applications
Member Post Rancher: an open source platform for cloud native applications
Guest post originally published on CloudOps’s blog by CloudOps team Rancher is a container management platform that helps DevOps teams adopt Kubernetes in a simple and scalable manner. It does so by offering a complete software stack that simplifies...
January 19, 2021 | By CloudOps team

The New Stack: “The Cloud Native Landscape: The Orchestration and Management Layer”
The New Stack: “The Cloud Native Landscape: The Orchestration and Management Layer”
The orchestration and management layer is the third layer in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s cloud native landscape. Before tackling tools in this category, engineers have presumably already automated infrastructure provisioning following security and compliance standards (provisioning layer)...
January 15, 2021

An introduction to Kubernetes scurity using Falco
Member Post An introduction to Kubernetes scurity using Falco
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Frederick Fernando Let’s talk about Kubernetes security As Kubernetes continues to grow in adoption, it is important for us to know how to secure it. In a dynamic infrastructure platform...
January 13, 2021 | By Frederick Fernando

The New Stack: “CNCF Security Whitepaper Shows the Complexity of Securing Cloud Native Operations”
The New Stack: “CNCF Security Whitepaper Shows the Complexity of Securing Cloud Native Operations”
In November, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation released a whitepaper that focused on the security of cloud native applications. It was large in scope, covering everything from cloud native layers, to the full lifecycle of development, to compliance (and everything in between)....
January 12, 2021

What’s Your Kubernetes Maturity?
Member Post What’s Your Kubernetes Maturity?
Guest post by Danielle Cook, Content Marketing Director, Fairwinds Whether you are new to Kubernetes or you have deployment experience, Kubernetes has complexity that you’ll need to overcome. The Kubernetes Maturity Model offers an entire end-to-end overview of...
January 12, 2021 | By Danielle Cook