Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
As system architectures grow increasingly complex, the cloud-native community faces a subtle but pressing challenge: we are drowning in our own telemetry data. It is easier than ever to instrument an application and collect signals, but…
Introduction Flipkart, one of India’s leading digital commerce companies, operates hundreds of interconnected services across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments. During marquee events such as Big Billion Days, Independence Day Sale, and Diwali Sale, even minor…
In March, I gave a talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. After the session, the same questions kept coming up on the CNCF Slack and in person: why build agentic AI on cloud…
Modern software delivery is no longer constrained by application code — it is constrained by the platform that runs it. This article presents the design of a cloud-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes and…
The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?
I’ve spent enough time in and around cloud native infrastructure to know that we’re reasonably good at standardizing the theory. OpenTelemetry for instrumentation, Prometheus for metrics, Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, Fluentd or Loki for…
From public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning
Ten years ago, my entire world fit inside a public static void main. I was a Java developer. Infrastructure? That was someone else’s problem a black box where my JAR files went to live, or quietly…
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….
Ingress NGINX retirement: Experience from end users
During last November’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta there was an announcement regarding the retirement of ingress-nginx. As mentioned in the original blog post, existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and…
F5 Elevates to Gold Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Application delivery and security provider strengthens collaboration to drive secure, scalable cloud native innovation Key Highlights: AMSTERDAM—26 March 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that F5…
CNCF and SlashData Report Finds Cloud Native Community Reaches Nearly 20 Million Developers
New research highlights the rapid growth of cloud native development and evolving platform engineering and AI adoption trends Key Highlights: AMSTERDAM, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE– March 24, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…