Cloud Native Computing Foundation welcomes Hortonworks as Gold Member
Leading global data management platform provider increases commitment to cloud native solutions for big data SAN FRANCISCO – September 25, 2018 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and…
FaaS functions on Kubernetes are increasingly popular for writing short-lived stateless applications. We’ve often covered the developer productivity advantages, such as the time to create a useful application from scratch without learning a lot about Kubernetes. In this…
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion, Cortex provides…
Linkerd 2.0 now in general availability: From service mesh to service sidecar
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. It also transforms the project…
GSoC 18: Kata Containers support for containerd
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer, graduate student…
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and has recently…
When it was founded in 2000, Ocado was an online-only grocery retailer in the U.K. In the years since, it has expanded from delivering produce to families to providing technology to other grocery retailers. The company began developing…
Data Center Dynamics: "Who’s afraid of cloud native?"
The world of IT is changing at breakneck speed, and much of it is down to just one technology – application containers, and Kubernetes in particular. Designed for cloud computing, this approach has given birth to an entire…
Adform made headlines in 2017 when it detected the HyphBot ad fraud network that was costing some businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. With its mission to provide a secure and transparent full stack of advertising…
CNCF’s full GSoC roster passes summer evaluations
Each summer, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program welcomes hundreds (if not thousands) of students to write code and learn about the open source community – all with help from mentor organizations like CNCF. As the Foundation…