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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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A cloud native series from Joe Beda
In this 6 part blog series originally posted on Heptio, Joe Beda (CTO of Heptio and starter of Google Compute Engine, Kubernetes and Google Container Engine) dives into the definition of Cloud Native, practical considerations of applying...
August 30, 2017
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...
August 21, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
CNCF – Welcome Amazon Web Services
By Todd Moore, CNCF Governing Board Chairperson CNCF is thrilled to officially welcome Amazon Web Services as our newest Platinum member. The Foundation and our projects will benefit from their many years of leadership in enabling...
August 9, 2017
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...
August 2, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
Happy second birthday: A Kubernetes retrospective
Originally posted on Kubernetes.io by Sarah Novotny, Program Manager, Kubernetes Community As we do every July, we’re excited to celebrate Kubernetes 2nd birthday! In the two years since GA 1.0 launched as an open source project, Kubernetes (abbreviated as K8s) has grown...
July 27, 2017 | Natasha Woods
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...
July 26, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
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...
July 20, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
Prometheus user profile: Canonical talks about its transition to Prometheus
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu – the leading OS for container, cloud, scale-out and hyperscale computing. 65 percent of today’s large-scale OpenStack deployments are on Ubuntu, using both KVM and the pure-container LXD hypervisor for the...
July 17, 2017 | Kristen Evans
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...
July 11, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
Prometheus user profile: JustWatch discusses the benefits of Whitebox monitoring
JustWatch is a streaming search engine that helps to find out where to watch movies and TV shows legally online and in theaters. You can search movie content across all major streaming providers like Netflix, HBO,...
July 10, 2017 | Kristen Evans
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...
June 29, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard
Survey shows Kubernetes leading as orchestration platform
In conjunction with CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe (March 29-30, 2017), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conducted a survey of our attendees. More than 430 conference attendees (out of 1500) completed the survey, with a majority of respondents...
June 28, 2017 | Sarah Conway
Prometheus user profile: How Europace discovered Prometheus
Europace is a Germany-based developer of the country’s largest platform for mortgages, building finance products and personal loans – linking banks, insurers and financial product distributors and enabling users to execute 35,000 transactions each month. Europace moved...
June 21, 2017 | Kristen Evans
CoreDNS-008 release
By John Belamaric Email Twitter GitHub On June 14, 2017, CoreDNS-008 released! CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains middleware, where each middleware implements a DNS feature. Release v008 has a lot of content, with new middleware and major features...
June 19, 2017
Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is collaborating with The Linux Foundation to create an inaugural exam certification for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program. As the fourth highest velocity open source projects, Kubernetes use is exploding. This certification...
June 15, 2017
Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Gianluca Arbezzano is a full stack developer at InfluxDB, a Docker captain and contributor and maintainer of different oss projects. Passionate about modern monitoring and furthering cloud native technologies, Gianluca recently wrote about his first experience...
June 14, 2017
The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
Open Source projects exhibit natural increasing returns to scale. That’s because most developers are interested in using and participating in the largest projects, and the projects with the most developers are more likely to quickly fix...
June 5, 2017 | Dan Kohn
Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Last week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Battery Ventures hosted an interactive discussion on the explosive growth of open source software in San Francisco. Event slides can be found here. In SF? Learn about open...
June 1, 2017
Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
Compose is a fully-managed platform used by developers to deploy, host and scale databases. Its platform streamlines spinning up and managing MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ and etcd databases – both for single developers...
May 26, 2017 | Kristen Evans
CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept CNI (Container Networking Interface) as the 10th hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, and rkt. Container-based applications are rapidly...
May 23, 2017 | Natasha Woods