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Prometheus user profile: Canonical talks about its transition to Prometheus
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 world’s fastest...
July 17, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

GolfNow: saving time and money with Cloud Native Infrastructure
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 monolithic to...
July 11, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Prometheus user profile: JustWatch discusses the benefits of Whitebox monitoring
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, Amazon Video,...
July 10, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

Box: An early adopter envisions a new cloud platform
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 users (including...
June 29, 2017 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Survey shows Kubernetes leading as orchestration platform
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 (54%) coming...
June 28, 2017 | By Sarah Conway

Prometheus user profile: How Europace discovered Prometheus
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 its monitoring...
June 21, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

CoreDNS-008 release
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 added to...
June 19, 2017

Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
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 program will...
June 15, 2017

Outside developer perspective: CNCF
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 with the...
June 14, 2017

The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
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 bugs, add...
June 5, 2017 | By Dan Kohn