All posts by Kaitlyn Barnard


kubeadm v1.8 released: Introducing easy upgrades for Kubernetes clusters
kubeadm v1.8 released: Introducing easy upgrades for Kubernetes clusters
Editor’s note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what’s new in Kubernetes 1.8 Since its debut in September 2016, the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) has established kubeadm as the easiest Kubernetes bootstrap method. Now,...
November 7, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Five days of Kubernetes 1.8
Five days of Kubernetes 1.8
Kubernetes 1.8 is live, made possible by hundreds of contributors pushing thousands of commits in this latest releases. The community has tallied more than 66,000 commits in the main repo and continues rapid growth outside of the main...
November 6, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

BlaBlaCar: Turning to Containerization to support millions of Rideshares
BlaBlaCar: Turning to Containerization to support millions of Rideshares
For the 40 million users of BlaBlaCar, it’s easy to find strangers headed in the same direction to share rides and costs. You can even choose how much “bla bla” chatter you want from a long-distance ride mate....
October 25, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Pear Deck: Infrastructure for a growing Edtech startup
Pear Deck: Infrastructure for a growing Edtech startup
With the speed befitting a startup, Pear Deck delivered its first prototype to customers within three months of incorporating. As a former high school math teacher, CEO Riley Eynon-Lynch felt an urgency to provide a tech solution to...
August 21, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Buffer: Making deployments easy for a small, distributed team
Buffer: Making deployments easy for a small, distributed team
Dan Farrelly uses a carpentry analogy to explain the problem his company, Buffer, began having as its team of developers grew over the past few years. “If you’re building a table by yourself, it’s fine,” the company’s architect says....
August 2, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Wink: Connecting your smart home using cloud native infrastructure
Wink: Connecting your smart home using cloud native infrastructure
How many people does it take to turn on a light bulb? Kit Klein whips out his phone to demonstrate. With a few swipes, Wink Head of Engineering officer pulls up the smart-home app created by his New...
July 26, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Ancestry: Digging into the past with new technology
Ancestry: Digging into the past with new technology
It started with a Shaky Leaf. Since its introduction a decade ago, the Shaky Leaf icon has become one of Ancestry’s signature features, which signals to users that there’s a helpful hint you can use to find out...
July 20, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

GolfNow: saving time and money with Cloud Native Infrastructure
GolfNow: saving time and money with Cloud Native Infrastructure
It’s not every day that you can say you’ve slashed an operating expense by half. But Sheriff Mohamed and Josh Chandler did just that when they helped lead their company, GolfNow, on a journey from a monolithic to...
July 11, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Box: An early adopter envisions a new cloud platform
Box: An early adopter envisions a new cloud platform
In the summer of 2014, Box was feeling the pain of a decade’s worth of hardware and software infrastructure that wasn’t keeping up with the company’s needs. A platform that allows its more than 50 million users (including...
June 29, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard