A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
AlphaSense had already been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. when it made Fortune’s Top 50 AI Startups list in 2017. “From this point, we realized that we needed to be prepared for exponential growth,”...
November 1, 2019
Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Originally published on Medium by Mohamed Ahmed Kubernetes at its core is a resources management and orchestration tool. It is ok to focus day-1 operations to explore and play around with its cool features to deploy, monitor and...
October 29, 2019
Apple provides scholarships for FoundationDB Summit
Apple will be providing sponsorships for the scholarships at FoundationDB Summit, happening on Day Zero of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon San Diego. For its second year, FoundationDB Summit has two tracks. The first is curated for attendees new to...
October 25, 2019
Announcing Kubernetes forums in Bengaluru and Delhi, India
We’re going to India! Following the inaugural Kubernetes forums in Seoul and Sydney, we’re heading to India for our next pair of events! We’ll be in Bengaluru from February 17-18, 2020, followed by Delhi from February 20-21, 2020....
October 23, 2019
With Cloud Native, Intuit brings ‘lightning fast’ deployment to thousands of developers
In 18 months, Intuit went from zero to 2,000 services running on Kubernetes. And here’s why: Cloud native technology has enabled “lightning fast” deployment, says Jeff Brewer, Chief Architect, Small Business and Self-Employed Group at Intuit. The deployment...
October 22, 2019
Harbor 1.9 tackles multi-tenancy with key enterprise features
Originally published on Harbor.io by the Harbor team With the latest Harbor 1.9 release from September, Harbor introduced some key new features: 1. Tag retention and project quotas that strengthen image lifecycle management and security2. Webhook notifications that enable the...
October 17, 2019
Extend Kubernetes via a shared informer
Guest post, originally published by Gianluca Arbezzano. Kubernetes runs a set of controllers to keep matching the current state of a resource with its desired state. It can be a Pod, Service or whatever is possible to control...
October 15, 2019
How Booz Allen Hamilton is helping modernize the federal government with Kubernetes
The next time you book a campsite or activity at a U.S. National Park, thank Kubernetes for making it quick and easy. As part of the White House’s IT modernization effort, Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group started...
October 11, 2019
How to make containers an architect’s best friend
Guest post by Anil Kumar, Director of product management, Couchbase Digital transformation is radically reshaping the way organisations across the globe do business. Empowered by DevOps practices, IT teams are helping to drive down costs, enhance agility and...
October 10, 2019
Kubernetes patterns: capacity planning
Guest post by Mohamed Ahmed, originally published on the Magalix Blog An excellent cloud-native application design should declare any specific resources that it needs to operate correctly. Kubernetes uses those requirements to make the most efficient decisions to...
October 8, 2019