Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!
Thank you to Laura Llinares, Mary Baldwin Hughes, Vimal Kumar, and Sunil Thaha for their significant contributions to this blog post and the Kepler project. Data centers accounted for 1.5% of global electricity demand in 2024,…
Challenge As an authorized Payment Aggregator, Razorpay operates under the strict oversight of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI PA Master Directions mandate absolute operating resilience, which introduces several highly specific, non-negotiable security requirements:…
Building a cloud native platform from the ground up with Kairos, k0rdent, and bindy
As we shared in our earlier post on FluxCD, RBC Capital Markets has been on a deliberate journey to modernize our Kubernetes platform. GitOps with FluxCD gave us a solid deployment foundation. But as our platform grew,…
Policy-as-Code: Flexible Kubernetes governance with Kyverno
Overview Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed how enterprises deploy and manage business workloads. As organizations build production applications at scale on Kubernetes, cluster size and complexity continue to grow—creating unprecedented challenges in ensuring cluster security, compliance, and…
Using Istio to manage high-traffic services
At STCLab, we operate high-traffic SaaS platforms that require real-time traffic control and bot mitigation. . Handling millions of concurrent connections and identifying malicious bots in real-time requires exceptional infrastructure stability. To achieve this, we rely…
CNCF and SlashData Survey Finds Cloud Native Ecosystem Surges to 15.6M Developers
New research reveals 15.6 million developers now use cloud native technologies, with backend and DevOps professionals leading adoption Key Highlights: ATLANTA, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA – November 11, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® …
RBC’s open source voyage: Bridging cloud innovation and community through CNCF and FINOS
At Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), our cloud journey is intrinsically linked with our commitment to open source. Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) extends and compliments our membership with the Fintech Open Source Foundation…
Managing Kubernetes Workloads Using the App of Apps Pattern in ArgoCD-2
Managing a cloud native infrastructure at scale is no longer just about deploying single applications – it’s about organizing environments, defining clear boundaries and keeping everything version-controlled, consistent, automated and easily managed within a simple and…
Beyond Terraform Modules: Infrastructure Design by Contract
It’s 2AM. You’re staring at a failed deployment pipeline, trying to figure out why your EKS cluster can’t find the right subnets. You’ve checked the variables, verified the outputs, and triple-checked your depends_on statements. Everything looks…