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…
Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program has accepted thousands of university students from around the world to spend their summer holiday writing code and learning about the open source community. This year GSoC accepted 1,264 students from 62…
Industry analyst perspectives on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
CNCF has held two flagship conferences in the last six months that demonstrate the significant momentum of Kubernetes and the adoption of cloud native – the first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 in Austin, Texas…
Prometheus user profile: Scalefastr
By Brian Brazil. Originally posted on Prometheus.io. Continuing our series of interviews with users of Prometheus, Kevin Burton from Scalefastr talks about how they are using Prometheus. For more on Prometheus, consider attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, May 2-4,…
When Henning Jacobs arrived at Zalando in 2010, the company was just two years old with 180 employees running an online store for European shoppers to buy fashion items. “It started as a PHP e-commerce site…
Europe’s leading online fashion platform gets radical with cloud native
Zalando, Europe’s leading online fashion platform, has experienced exponential growth since it was founded in 2008. Today Zalando has more than 14,000 employees, 3.6 billion Euro in revenue for 2016 and operates across 15 countries. Read…