All posts by Luc Perkins


Rust at CNCF
Staff Post Rust at CNCF
Rust is a systems language originally created by Mozilla to power parts of its experimental Servo browser engine. Once highly experimental and little used, Rust has become dramatically more stable and mature in recent years and is now...
June 22, 2020 | By Luc Perkins

Linkerd 2019 year in review
Project Post Linkerd 2019 year in review
I think it’s safe to say that 2019 was a huge year for Linkerd. It saw the project emerge from the “seems promising but let’s wait and see” phase and firmly into “okay, I need an excuse to try this out”...
January 20, 2020 | By Luc Perkins

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to graduate (after Kubernetes)....
December 18, 2018 | By Luc Perkins

gRPC-Web is going GA
gRPC-Web is going GA
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC services, without requiring an HTTP server to act as...
October 24, 2018 | By Luc Perkins