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Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
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 source and...
June 1, 2017

Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
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 hacking away...
May 26, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
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 moving into...
May 23, 2017 | By Natasha Woods

Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Kim Lehtinen, second-year student at University of Vaasa in Finland, shares his experience attending sessions and meeting the...
May 19, 2017

Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. The company developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For example, Gmail alone has imported data for 3...
May 17, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

Developing cloud native applications
Developing cloud native applications
By Ken Owens, Technologist and Innovation Engineer currently CTO Cloud Native Platforms at Cisco Systems and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) representative *Blog originally posted on DevNetCreate.io Software engineering and developer communities are driving the market...
May 15, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Konrad Djimeli, University of Buea student, shares his experience meeting the community, participating in technical sessions and bringing his...
May 10, 2017

Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Throughout the next few weeks, CNCF is sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at a number of exciting community events, including: Amazonia, OpenStack Summit Boston, OSCON, DevNet Create, Open Source Summit Japan, CoreOS Fest and LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen...
May 8, 2017 | By Kristen Evans

Kubernetes making a splash at OpenStack Summit Boston (May 7-11)
Kubernetes making a splash at OpenStack Summit Boston (May 7-11)
By: OpenStack Special Interest Group leaders, Ihor Dvoretskyi from Mirantis and Steve Gordon from Red Hat, highlighting the status of collaboration between Kubernetes and OpenStack OpenStack Summit is happening next week in Boston (May 7-11). It is one...
May 5, 2017

CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program allows university students (over the age of 18) from around the world to spend their summer breaks writing code and learning about open source development. Accepted students work with a mentor and become...
May 4, 2017 | By Chris Aniszczyk