LFX Spring 2022 Mentorships are open – Apply for CNCF projects by February 13th!
By Ihor Dvoretskyi, Senior Developer Advocate, CNCF For the fourth year in a row, CNCF will be participating in LFX with a record-breaking 42 project ideas available to mentees. LFX is a platform that enables organizations to offer…
Why You Need An API Gateway To Manage Access To Your APIs
Guest post originally published on Snapt’s blog by Armand Sultantono More and more organizations are moving to an API-driven architecture. This powerful approach helps them innovate quickly, integrate with best-of-breed external services, and deliver new services faster than…
Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML against its…
Envoy Fundamentals, a training course to enable faster adoption of Envoy Proxy
Guest post by Tetrate Envoy Proxy, an open-source edge and service proxy, is a vital part of today’s modern, cloud-native application and is used in production by large companies like Booking.com, Pinterest, and Airbnb(Source). Tetrate, a top contributor…
Building a fault-tolerant application stack on top of a dynamic foundation
Guest post by Mark Swarbrick, Head of Infrastructure at Bink Powering digital loyalty transactions of some of the biggest banks in the UK with Linkerd Bink, a fintech company based in the UK, has made it their mission…
Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio: 2021 redux
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan Earlier this year, we published Linkerd vs Istio benchmarks comparing the performance and resource consumption of the two service meshes on a simple microservice application under various levels of load….
LFX fall program 2021: A successful season with 37 graduated interns!
Post by Ihor Dvoretskyi CNCF has had great experiences hosting interns through the LFX program since 2019, helping hundreds of developers get started in open source technology. This year was no exception, with 37 interns across 16 Graduated,…
The Kubernetes’ open source tools to check out in 2022
Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Jonathan Kaftzan, VP Marketing & Business Development at ARMO In 2014, Kubernetes surfaced from work at Google and quickly became the de facto standard for container management and orchestration. Despite its silicon…
Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd
Guest post by Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir, Platform Team at Salt Security At Salt Security, we pioneered API security. Purpose-built to protect APIs across their entire life cycle, the Salt platform enables our customers to prevent API…
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials Training and KCNA Certification Now Available
New training course from CNCF and The Linux Foundation provides basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud native architectures and helps prepare for new entry-level certification SAN FRANCISCO – November 18, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization…