Alan reflects on a turbulent but triumphant year in cloud native, celebrating the CNCF and Linux Foundation’s stewardship, Kubernetes’ continued maturity, OpenTelemetry’s breakout moment, open-source collaboration, and the rise of platform engineering—while acknowledging the challenges of complexity, vendor noise, and maintainer burnout the community must confront.
Cloud Foundry evolves by integrating CNCF projects like Crossplane, OpenCost, and Headlamp to boost flexibility, cost transparency, and developer productivity.
Quantum computing threatens today’s encryption. Learn why cloud-native organizations must adopt quantum-safe security to stay compliant and resilient.
Cloud-native job market 2025: Software Engineers dominate at 47%, followed by DevOps, Platform Engineers, and SREs. See role trends and insights.
As development environments evolve at breakneck speed, our approach to securing them remains stuck in the past. I’ve watched countless organizations implement robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, deploy Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tools, and then breathe a collective sigh of relief, believing they’ve solved their access control challenges. But have they? An […] [...]
Let me be clear. I do not like the term “vibe coding.” The label is sloppy and the concept it pushes is even sloppier. It lumps together two very different practices and turns a serious profession into a trend. On one side, experienced developers use AI to speed up real work. They ask pointed questions, […] [...]
Many SRE initiatives stall because organizations adopt the title without the principles. True SRE success requires leadership vision, cultural change, shared KPIs and continuous maturity measurement—not tools alone. [...]
