Dan Farrelly uses a carpentry analogy to explain the problem his company, Buffer, began having as its team of developers grew over the past few years. “If you’re building a table by yourself, it’s fine,” the…
Buffer: Making deployments easy for a small, distributed team
Dan Farrelly uses a carpentry analogy to explain the problem his company, Buffer, began having as its team of developers grew over the past few years. “If you’re building a table by yourself, it’s fine,” the company’s…
In the summer of 2014, Box was feeling the pain of a decade’s worth of hardware and software infrastructure that wasn’t keeping up with the company’s needs. A platform that allows its more than 50 million…
Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. The company developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For example, Gmail alone has imported data…
CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program allows university students (over the age of 18) from around the world to spend their summer breaks writing code and learning about open source development. Accepted students work with a mentor…
Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one? Originally published by William Morgan on Buoyant.io. tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a…
OStatic: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosts Linkerd open source project"
When The Linux Foundation announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, its members already represented some of the most powerful technology and open source leaders around.
Diversity scholarship series: My programming journey – becoming a Kubernetes maintainer
I’m Lucas Käldström from Finland. I speak Swedish as my mother tongue in the same manner as 300,000 others in my country do. I just turned 17 and am attending my second year in general upper…
theCUBE: "The digital revolution’s hidden secret: Open-source cloud software | #KubeCon"
Open-source software has been key to the transformation of business because it is low-cost, often free, and easy for a young company to modify and deploy. Because of these strong points, open-source software has produced powerful…
OStatic: "Canonical and others join Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
When The Linux Foundation announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation last year, its members already represented some of the most powerful technology and open source leaders around. Right out of the gate, members included AT&T, Box,…