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,…
CNCF Survey: Use of cloud native technologies in production has grown over 200%
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the sixth time CNCF has taken the temperature of the container management marketplace. Key takeaways…
In less than a decade, Ygrene has funded more than $1 billion in loans for renewable energy projects. A PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing company, “We take the equity in a home or a commercial…
Pinning its past, present, and future on cloud native
After eight years in existence, Pinterest has grown into 1000 microservices, multiple layers of infrastructure, and a diverse set-up of tools and platforms. In order to manage all of this they needed a compute platform that…
Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes
A few weeks ago, the CNCF family was extended with a new project – Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes. Kubernetes was developed as a solution to manage and orchestrate containerized workloads. At the same time,…
Q&A with JD.com: Kubernetes, cloud native, and CNCF projects driving big data and AI
Liu Haifeng, Chief Architect at JD.com, sat down with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about Cloud Native, JD.com’s Kubernetes implementation, and tips for other companies looking to get started with open source. Below is their…
Pinterest was born on the cloud—running on AWS since day one in 2010—but even cloud native companies can experience some growing pains. Since its launch, Pinterest has become a household name, with more than 200 million active…
In 2015, Pearson was already serving 75 million learners as the world’s largest education company, offering curriculum and assessment tools for Pre-K through college and beyond. Understanding that innovating the digital education experience was the key…
As a top 10 U.S. retail bank, Capital One has applications that handle millions of transactions a day. Big-data decisioning—for fraud detection, credit approvals and beyond—is core to the business. To support the teams that build applications with…
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…