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Spotify

Posted on June 27, 2019

“Our goal is to empower creators and enable a really immersive listening experience for all of the consumers that we have today⁠—and hopefully the consumers we’ll have in the future,” says Jai Chakrabarti, Director of Engineering,…


Prometheus User Profile: Presslabs

Posted on April 26, 2019

Originally posted on Prometheus.io. Continuing our series of interviews with users of Prometheus, Mile Rosu from Presslabs talks about their monitoring journey. Can you tell us about yourself and what Presslabs does? Presslabs is a high-performance…


AppDirect

Posted on March 26, 2019

With its end-to-end commerce platform for cloud-based products and services, AppDirect has been helping organizations such as Comcast and GoDaddy simplify the digital supply chain since 2009. When Director of Software Development Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte started working…


Scaling Up Smart: 4 key tips on successfully using cloud native technology to scale your infrastructure

Posted on March 25, 2019

Today’s post is by Reda Benzair, CNCF Ambassador and VP of Engineering at Streamroot. This was originally posted on the Streamroot techdeveloper’s blog. In this post, I’d like to share some high-level takeaways for engineering managers…


Cloud Native Computing Foundation surpasses 375 members

Posted on March 12, 2019

Foundation reaches membership milestone as 59 organizations including Booz Allen, Ericsson and SimpleNexus add their support HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – March 12, 2019 – Open Source Leadership Summit – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®),…


ricardo.ch

Posted on February 26, 2019

When Cedric Meury joined ricardo.ch in 2016, he saw a clear divide between Operations and Development. In fact, there was literal distance between them: The engineering team worked in France, while the rest of the org…


ThredUP

Posted on February 26, 2019

The largest online consignment store for women’s and children’s clothes, ThredUP is focused on getting consumers to think second-hand first. “We’re disrupting the retail industry, and it’s really important to us to make sure that as…


CNCF launches Cloud Native Network Functions (CNF) Testbed

Posted on February 25, 2019

Open source initiative validates the benefits of telcos running ONAP network functions on Kubernetes BARCELONA, February 25, 2019 – Mobile World Congress – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains open source technologies like Kubernetes®…


How VSCO saved 70% with Kubernetes

Posted on February 20, 2019

After VSCO moved to AWS in 2015 and its user base passed the 30 million mark, the team quickly realized that set-up wouldn’t work anymore. With a checklist that included ease of use and implementation, level…


VSCO

Posted on February 20, 2019

A photography app for mobile, VSCO was born in the cloud in 2011. In the beginning, “we were using Rackspace and had one PHP monolith application talking to MySQL database, with FTP deployments, no containerization, no…