A look back at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source project velocity in 2023
By Chris Aniszczyk We have been tracking open source project velocity over the last several years and wanted to share the latest update highlighting open source project velocity over the last 12 months. With these charts,…
Service proxy, service mesh or API gateway – which do you need?
Member post originally published on Tyk’s blog by Ahmet Soormally and Carol Cheung The rise of the microservices architecture has brought with it a whole heap of efficiency and flexibility – and some interesting challenges. As…
OpenFeature becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenFeature as a CNCF incubating project. OpenFeature is an open specification that offers a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging, compatible with various feature flag management…
Member post from Rob Williamson, Solace The goal of OpenTelemetry is to have a common system for tracing across different (aka distributed) technologies. It solves the problems created when systems are deployed across hybrid and multi-clouds,…
October 2023: where we are with velocity of CNCF, LF, and top 30 open source projects
By Chris Aniszczyk We have been tracking open source project velocity over the last several years and wanted to share the latest update highlighting open source project velocity over the last 12 months. With these charts,…
CNCF Archives the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to approve archiving the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) project. SMI was created to provide a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes and a basic feature set for…
Beginner’s guide to Kuma service mesh
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Sonali Srivastava The concept of service mesh emerged as a response to the growing popularity of cloud native environments, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes. It has its roots…
Cloud Native Now: “Istio Service Mesh Officially Reaches CNCF Graduation Level”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that the open source Istio service mesh, originally developed by Google and IBM, has now officially graduated to become a top-level project alongside Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies that the…
6 open source projects to boost your cloud-native API management game
Guest post originally published on Tyk’s blog by Sonja Chevre and Ahmet Soormally We were very excited to be invited as speakers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam this year! Our KubeCon special…
Introduction to the Linkerd Service Mesh
Guest post originally published on the Bouyant blog by Michael Levan When you deploy a pod, do you know if your application is running how you want it to? Is its traffic encrypted? Is your application…