All posts by Kim McMahon


Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification is now valid for 3 years
Staff Post Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification is now valid for 3 years
Announced in May 2018, the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) program was designed as an extension of CNCF’s Kubernetes training offerings which already includes certification for Kubernetes administrators. By adding this exam to the CNCF certification line-up, application...
January 9, 2020 | By Kim McMahon

2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
It’s time for the CNCF Cloud Native Survey! The goal of this survey, which will be issued in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (November 18-21, 2019), is to understand the state of Kubernetes, container, and serverless adoption and...
August 8, 2019 | By Kim McMahon

Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and has recently...
September 13, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Meet the Ambassador: Gianluca Arbezzano
Meet the Ambassador: Gianluca Arbezzano
Gianluca Arbezzano, InfluxDB, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also view the video. Kaitlyn: Hi Gianluca. You’re...
September 7, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Meet the Ambassador: Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
Meet the Ambassador: Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog, sat down with Kim McMahon, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Kim: Thank you Baruch for joining us for the Ambassador interview. Can...
August 24, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Meet the Ambassador: Ariel Jatib – StackPointCloud
Meet the Ambassador: Ariel Jatib – StackPointCloud
Ariel Jatib, StackPointCloud, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also view the video. Kaitlyn: Thank...
August 21, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Prometheus graduates within CNCF
Prometheus graduates within CNCF
Originally posted August 9, 2018 by Richard Hartmann on Prometheus.io We are happy to announce that as of today, Prometheus graduates within the CNCF. Prometheus is the second project ever to make it to this tier. By graduating...
August 15, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Pinning its past, present, and future on cloud native
Pinning its past, present, and future on cloud native
After eight years in existence, Pinterest has grown into 1000 microservices, multiple layers of infrastructure, and a diverse set-up of tools and platforms. In order to manage all of this they needed a compute platform that enabled the...
August 14, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Meet the Ambassador: Cheryl Hung
Meet the Ambassador: Cheryl Hung
Cheryl Hung, StorageOS, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, the cloud native Meetup group in London, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also view the...
July 26, 2018 | By Kim McMahon

Reinventing the world’s largest education company With Kubernetes
Reinventing the world’s largest education company With Kubernetes
Pearson, a global education company serving 75 million learners, set a goal to more than double that number to 200 million by 2025. To serve the digital learning experiences of their users, they needed to scale and adapt...
July 24, 2018 | By Kim McMahon