All posts by Kristen Evans


Computer Business Review: "Top 5 open source projects for 2018"
Computer Business Review: "Top 5 open source projects for 2018"
Kubernetes is an open source system designed for the automation of deployment, the management of containerised applications. With the seed sewn by Google, the system is now under the watchful eye of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
February 22, 2018

January 2018: OpenTracing project newsletter
January 2018: OpenTracing project newsletter
Members of OpenTracing made a New Year’s Resolution in 2018 to communicate the progress made by the project regularly and consistently. To that end, this is the first of many posts to come. Read on to learn about...
February 16, 2018 | By Kristen Evans

Enterprise Tech: "cloud-native group promotes rules for serverless computing"
Enterprise Tech: "cloud-native group promotes rules for serverless computing"
A white paper on serverless technology released this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), seeks to establish some ground rules for the nascent market. “Serverless is the natural evolution of cloud-native computing,” said Chris Aniszczyk, the...
February 14, 2018

ZDNet: "Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!"
ZDNet: "Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!"
CNCF created the WG to “explore the intersection of cloud native and serverless technology.” The first output of the group was a summary of serverless computing projects. These include Apache OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure...
February 14, 2018

The CNCF takes steps toward serverless computing
The CNCF takes steps toward serverless computing
By Swapnil Bhartiya The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Serverless Working Group (WG) has announced a whitepaper and serverless landscape that marks their first output since the working group was created in 2016. Why it matters Even though...
February 14, 2018 | By Kristen Evans

SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted its second cloud-based storage project, Vitess, just a week after voting in its first storage project Rook. The second storage project – and CNCF’s 16th hosted project – is a database...
February 13, 2018

The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
February 9, 2018

InformationWeek: "10 things you need to know about Kubernetes"
InformationWeek: "10 things you need to know about Kubernetes"
Several different analysts and tech journalists have proclaimed that 2017 was the year of Kubernetes. But if you’re not involved in the day-to-day management of cloud workloads, you can be forgiven for not understanding what the fuss is...
February 6, 2018

Container Journal: "CNCF adds Vitess database orchestration project"
Container Journal: "CNCF adds Vitess database orchestration project"
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week has decided to accept Vitess as a new project. Vitess is a database orchestration system developed at YouTube that automatically shards instances of open...
February 6, 2018

CNCF to host Vitess
CNCF to host Vitess
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Vitess as the 16th hosted project, alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF and Rook. Vitess has been accepted as an incubation-level...
February 5, 2018 | By Kristen Evans