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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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16 CNCF interns graduated from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021!
Staff Post 16 CNCF interns graduated from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021!
In its fifth year participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), CNCF is excited to announce 16 interns have graduated from the program after working with the Foundation’s projects. Interns this year contributed to Graduated, Incubating...
November 1, 2021

Mentorship Spotlight: Looking back at the LFX Mentorship Program Spring ’21: My journey to becoming a TiKV contributor
Mentorship Post Mentorship Spotlight: Looking back at the LFX Mentorship Program Spring ’21: My journey to becoming a TiKV contributor
Community Guest Post originally published on the TiKV blog by Andreas Zimmerer, TiKV mentee I am a graduate student in the department of computer science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. This spring (2021), I...
July 26, 2021 | Andreas Zimmerer

Spring Term LFX Program: Largest graduating class with 28 successful CNCF interns!
Staff Post Spring Term LFX Program: Largest graduating class with 28 successful CNCF interns!
Post by Ihor Dvoretskyi 28 interns have just successfully graduated from the latest LFX mentorship program funded by CNCF. 16 CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects from Crossplane, Kubernetes, Thanos, Tremor...
July 13, 2021 | Ihor Dvoretskyi

TiFS, a TiKV-based partition tolerant, strictly consistent file system
Member Post TiFS, a TiKV-based partition tolerant, strictly consistent file system
Guest post originally published on PingCap’s blog by Hexi Lee, Software Engineer Intern at PingCAP TiKV is a distributed key-value storage engine, featuring strong consistency and partition tolerance. It can act either as the storage engine...
June 28, 2021 | Hexi Lee

TiKV + SPDK: Pushing the limits of storage performance
Member Post TiKV + SPDK: Pushing the limits of storage performance
Guest post originally published on PingCAP’s blog by Ke’ao Yang, Software Engineer at PingCAP At the heart of modern software is layered abstraction. In abstraction, each layer hides details that are not relevant to other layers...
June 10, 2021 | Ke'ao Yang

CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Summer 2021 – Apply by May 17th!
Staff Post CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Summer 2021 – Apply by May 17th!
CNCF has a great line up of projects participating in the Summer Term of LFX from June 1st – August 31st. 13 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects will be participating with 17 project ideas available for...
May 4, 2021 | Chris Abraham

CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
Staff Post CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2020
2020年CNCF中国云原生调查 At CNCF, we regularly survey our community to better understand the adoption of open source and cloud native technologies. For the fourth time, we conducted the Cloud Native Survey China in Mandarin to gain deeper...
April 28, 2021

Mentorship Spotlight: How I added coprocessor ENUM/SET support to TiKV in an LFX Mentorship Program
Mentorship Post Mentorship Spotlight: How I added coprocessor ENUM/SET support to TiKV in an LFX Mentorship Program
Guest post originally published on the TiKV blog by Xuanwo In September 2020, I was honored to participate in the TiKV Linux Foundation’s (LFX) Mentorship Program. I worked on the Coprocessor support ENUM/SET project to help enable TiKV Coprocessor to support ENUM and SET calculations. This...
April 8, 2021 | Xuanwo

CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Spring Term 2021! Apply Now for a Mentorship Opportunity!
Mentorship Post CNCF LFX Projects are Open for Spring Term 2021! Apply Now for a Mentorship Opportunity!
CNCF is again very excited to participate in the upcoming LFX (previously CommunityBridge) Spring Term from March 1st – May 31st. We have 15 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects participating with 35 project ideas available to...
February 3, 2021 | Chris Abraham

Q3-Q4 LFX (previously CommunityBridge) Program: 14 CNCF Interns Graduate!
Staff Post Q3-Q4 LFX (previously CommunityBridge) Program: 14 CNCF Interns Graduate!
In this latest round of LFX mentorships funded by the CNCF, 14 interns have successfully passed the program! 11 CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects participated in the program this quarter including Chaos Mesh, Kubernetes, KubeEdge,...
January 22, 2021 | Chris Abraham

CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2019
CNCF Cloud Native Survey China 2019
Kubernetes is Used in Production by 72% in China 2019 CNCF中国云原生调查 – 中国72%的受访者生产中使用Kubernetes At CNCF, we regularly survey our community to better understand the adoption of open source and cloud native technologies. For the third time,...
October 13, 2020

Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
Project Post Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
Like we mentioned in our previous blog post, CNCF is thrilled to participate in the Fall 2020 CommunityBridge Program and have 22 project ideas from 12 Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox available to mentees. Similar to Google...
September 21, 2020 | Chris Abraham

16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
Having participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2017, CNCF is thrilled to announce that this year, 16 interns working on the Foundation’s projects have graduated from the program. Interns this year got to...
September 17, 2020 | Chris Abraham

CommunityBridge Spotlight: My CommunityBridge Mentorship with TiKV project
Mentorship Post CommunityBridge Spotlight: My CommunityBridge Mentorship with TiKV project
Guest post originally published on the TiKV blog by Chi Zhang, a mentee of the TiKV project at the CommunityBridge Mentorship Program. He is also a sophomore at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. CommunityBridge is a 12-week full-time...
September 3, 2020 | Chi Zhang

21 CNCF interns graduate from the Q2 2020 Linux Foundation CommunityBridge Program
Staff Post 21 CNCF interns graduate from the Q2 2020 Linux Foundation CommunityBridge Program
In our biggest class yet, 21 CNCF interns have successfully passed the CommunityBridge program! 14 CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects participated in the program this quarter including CoreDNS, Envoy, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Prometheus and more. CommunityBridge...
August 13, 2020

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...
June 22, 2020 | Luc Perkins

AutoTiKV: TiKV tuning made easy by AI and machine learning
AutoTiKV: TiKV tuning made easy by AI and machine learning
Guest post originally published in Chinese by Yuanli Wang, PingCap Modern database management systems (DBMS) are notorious for being complicated and having too many configuration options-or “knobs”- that mostly determine how the system performs. The traditional...
December 10, 2019

Case study: TiKV in JD Cloud
Case study: TiKV in JD Cloud
Guest post by Can Cui, Infrastructure Specialist at JD Cloud JD Cloud, is a full-service cloud computing platform and integrated cloud service provider. Like Microsoft Azure, we deliver comprehensive cloud computing services ranging from infrastructure building...
November 26, 2019

Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft are the focus of many technical articles. But those articles tend...
November 4, 2019

TOC votes to move TiKV into CNCF Incubator
TOC votes to move TiKV into CNCF Incubator
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation‘s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept TiKV as an incubation-level hosted project. TiKV, which entered the CNCF Sandbox in August 2018, is an open source distributed transactional key-value...
May 21, 2019