Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high-impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, interviewing key contributors, and researching new technology. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
UX Layers for Kubernetes: The Next Cloud-Native Abstraction?
Kubernetes can bring massive improvements to a company’s infrastructure and deployment processes. Yet, Kubernetes (K8s) is quite tricky for end developers to understand completely; the platform often requires specialists to operate. So, ...
‘Dancing Skeleton,’ APIs and Microservices
Datawire has announced a significant update to Ambassador Edge Stack, the popular Kubernetes API gateway. Ambassador’s new Delivery Acceleration Module enables teams to deploy containers directly from GitHub code and integrate with ...
Gartner’s 6 Best Practices for Containers, Kubernetes
By 2022, Gartner estimates that 75% of organizations will be running containerized applications in production. Kubernetes has undoubtedly become a popular method to organize containers. By following certain Kubernetes best practices, you ...
Introducing Kuma, the Service Mesh From Kong
Modern expectations for higher performance and reliability are demanding improved development and deployment methods. Envoy-based service meshes, for example, are part of this movement, operationalizing networking tasks developers once were responsible for ...
Exploring SMI, the Service Mesh Industry Spec
Service mesh options for Kubernetes keep multiplying. There is now Istio, Linkerd, Consul and new entrants including AWS App Mesh. Naturally, each service mesh solution has its own unique approach. Thus, problems ...
Gloo API Gateway Hits v1.3, Includes Dev Portal
Gloo is the open source API gateway gaining momentum in the microservices world. Built on top of Envoy, it enables enterprise-grade service architecture with pluggable components. With the release of v1.3, Gloo ...
Overview of Node-RED 1.0 Release
Low-code, visual-based programming environments are opening doors for new types of application developers. At the same time, new event-driven architectures are making such environments more responsive. Node-RED, a visual flow-based programming tool, ...
Istio 1.3: What’s New, What’s Coming
Here’s a look at the features included in Istio 1.3 Istio is an open source service mesh that enables developers to “connect, secure, control, and observe services.” Spearheaded by Google, IBM and ...
Apache Kafka: Creating Real-Time Distributed Microservices
Apache Kafka is proving its mettle in the burgeoning microservices space Research values the global microservices industry at $1.8 billion, and microservices deployments continue to rise across the board. With that sort ...
5 Container Alternatives to Docker
Though Docker still made up 83 percent of containers in 2018, that number is down from 99 percent in 2017. Other container runtime environments including CoreOS rkt, Mesos, lxc and others are ...