Hi – my name is Alexis Richardson and I’m the chairman of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation TOC – Technical Oversight Committee. The TOC is an elected board of nine people. Representing the interests of CNCF’s…
HolmesGPT: Agentic troubleshooting built for the cloud native era
If you’ve ever debugged a production incident, you know that the hardest part often isn’t the fix, it’s finding where to begin. Most on-call engineers end up spending hours piecing together clues, fighting time pressure, 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…
Deploying Harbor on Kubernetes using Helm
Harbor is an indispensable open-source container image registry, offering robust features like policy-driven security, role-based access control, vulnerability scanning, image signing, image replication and distribution. Deploying Harbor is a common and critical step for organizations looking…
PromCon EU 2025 marked the tenth conference fully dedicated to the Prometheus monitoring system. Held on 21- 22 October 2025 at the Google office in Munich, Germany, the event brought together Prometheus users and developers from…
CNCF Welcomes 12 New Silver Members Emphasizing a Growing Need for Observability and Automation
New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
How to build a cost-effective observability platform with OpenTelemetry
The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support…
CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe returns 23-26 March in Amsterdam, bringing the global community together to drive the future of cloud native computing SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Solution: Turning compliance challenges Into a secure, scalable network As regulatory requirements tightened, UW–Madison needed a network layer that could deliver fine-grained control without sacrificing performance. The team migrated from Calico to Cilium, gaining an eBPF-powered…
Building microservices the easy way with Dapr
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits Microservices have been with us for nearly two decades, but it’s still far from easy to develop at scale, in a polyglot environment. The Dapr project, the…