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…
Building a Scalable, Flexible, Cloud-Native GenAI Platform with Open Source Solutions
AI workloads are complex, and unmanaged complexity kills velocity. Your architecture is the key to mastering it. As generative AI (GenAI) becomes foundational to modern software products, developers face a chaotic new reality, juggling different APIs…
From YAML to Intelligence: The Evolution of Platform Engineering
The next big thing in the platform engineering ecosystem as they say is AI Agents for Platform Engineering. How to build them, how to run them on Kubernetes, best practices, the journey from microservices to microagents,…
A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs. Here are the main takeaways I see…
Cloud Native Live: Taming the configuration beast with Pkl!
Infrastructure-as-code has revolutionized the way that infrastructure and applications get managed, increasing velocity and scalability. However, this same philosophy has introduced its own problems. Different tools have their own configuration formats, and formats like YAML, TOML…
Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr
Cloud native application development can be intimidating sometimes! Architecting distributed applications that need to access and connect to complex infrastructure requires developers to learn different technologies and cloud services, which slows down their development tasks. It…
GitOps in 2025: From Old-School Updates to the Modern Way
1. Introduction: Why Everyone’s Talking About GitOps in 2025 It’s 2025, and building software is more cloud-driven than ever. Cloud computing offers incredible speed and flexibility, but it also brings complexity. Companies are expected to ship…
Cloud Native Live: The future of cloud governance: AI remediation in action
Modern enterprises struggle with the scale and complexity of fixing policy violations in cloud-native environments, which is often manual and time-consuming. Nirmata’s new AI-Powered Remediations, now in preview within the Nirmata Control Hub (NCH), offer a…
CNCF Announces Speakers and Sessions for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India
Second annual India event to spotlight developer innovation and cloud native leadership Hyderabad, India, 7 May, 2025– The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software, today announced the keynote speakers and…
These Kubernetes mistakes will make you an easy target for hackers
Kubernetes is exceedingly powerful for orchestrating containerized applications at scale. But without proper monitoring and observability—especially in self-managed infrastructure—it can quickly become a security disaster waiting to happen. This is not due to inherent flaws in…