Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Back in 2017, we provided insight into the top 30 highest velocity open source projects at the time and the findings were very interesting. This year, we want to look at both CNCF’s project velocity as…
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…
How To Measure the ROI of Developer Tools
There’s been a growing emphasis in the cloud native community on investing in tools that improve developer experience. Platform engineering, accompanied with the rise of projects like Backstage, is all about making developers more productive by…
Peer-to-Peer acceleration for AI model distribution with Dragonfly
The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes….
Documentary follows the creation and growth of the Backstage project, highlighting its role in accelerating platform engineering initiatives Key Highlights AMSTERDAM—25 March, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software,…
Solution: Modern problems require modern infrastructure SNCF decided to stop applying incremental fixes to a legacy foundation and instead rebuild a state-of-the-art platform from the ground up. “We soon concluded that applying incremental fixes on unsteady…
New beta capabilities and experimental support aim to simplify service mesh adoption while expanding Istio’s role in next-generation AI infrastructure Key Highlights: KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM—25 MARCH, 2025—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…
Scaling organizational structure with Meshery’s expanding ecosystem
As a high velocity project and one of the fastest-growing projects in the CNCF ecosystem, Meshery’s increasing scale and community contributions necessitates this recognition, which requires a revision to its governance and organizational structure that better…
State of cloud native 2026: CNCF CTO’s insights and predictions
We’ve just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind Kubernetes and so many other successful open source projects we all rely on. That alone was a good reason to…
OpenTelemetry Collector vs agent: How to choose the right telemetry approach
As cloud-native architectures continue to mature, observability has become a foundational requirement rather than an optional add-on. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry continues to grow its contributor base and remains the second highest…