Ancestry: Digging into the past with new technology
It started with a Shaky Leaf. Since its introduction a decade ago, the Shaky Leaf icon has become one of Ancestry’s signature features, which signals to users that there’s a helpful hint you can use to find out…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Alibaba Cloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Gold Member
Leading cloud provider joins CNCF to help connect China’s cloud computing community more closely with the growing open source foundation BEIJING – LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China – June 19, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation…
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…
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…