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…
Cloud native agentic standards
An application, composed of one or more containers as dictated by system architecture, that operates either independently or as part of a distributed collaboration—interacting with at least one other entity (container) or achieving quorum-based consensus. It…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: CiliumCon
Three years later, CiliumCon is back where it started—at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam. This will be our seventh time hosting the event, and it comes on the heels of the tenth anniversary of Cilium’s…
Highlights Solution: eBPF-Powered Networking for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes In its first-generation MKS architecture, OVHcloud used Canal (Calico + Flannel) as the CNI. This stack worked well, Calico provided network policy enforcement while Flannel handled VXLAN-based networking, but…