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.
Study Finds Optimism For Kubernetes Amid Exponential Challenges
Although Kubernetes is a clear industry-standard container orchestrator, IT leaders continue to cite challenges in operating the platform. These challenges are escalated when overseeing multiple Kubernetes distributions across different environments. Organizations are ...
8 CNCF Tools to Run Kubernetes at the Edge and Bare Metal
Interestingly, we’re beginning to see interest in running Kubernetes at the edge and within bare metal instances. A study from Spectro Cloud finds 35% of respondents already deploy Kubernetes at the edge ...
Kubernetes Now Within Reach For Mid-Size Companies
For years, Kubernetes shined in big organizations supporting vast container-based deployments. With the staff to support large DevOps initiatives, enterprises have seen increased scalability, improved fault tolerance and better reliability by using ...
To Protect Cloud-Native APIs, Avoid Overly Permissive States
APIs are now foundational to how modern applications are built: Using microservices and containers and running on platforms like Kubernetes. They’re the standard mechanism to integrate internal components or expose functionality to ...
The 5 Top App Definition and Build Tools From CNCF
Kubernetes has evolved to become the foundation of the modern cloud-native stack. Yet, adopting this lovable beast of a container platform doesn’t come without its hurdles. Thankfully, many toolsets now exist to ...
3 CNCF Tools For Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering
When software is released into the world, it takes on a life of its own. It’s often hard to predict how people will use it—it’s even harder to predict how people will ...
3 Cloud-Native Database Tools From CNCF
Unless your application is entirely stateless, it will need to store and retrieve persistent data. This is where databases come in — they employ a simple query language that allows authorized users ...
7 CNCF Projects For Building Cloud-Native Networks
Cloud-native is more than a trend—it’s estimated that by 2023, the majority of new applications will adopt cloud-native components. One aspect of cloud-native is connectivity—networking is essential to enabling containers to talk ...
Tips For Stateful Kubernetes Data Backup And Recovery
All systems need a plan for data backup and recovery. It doesn’t matter if your application’s running on the cloud, on-premises or in a refrigerator at the edge of a network—it will ...
4 CNCF Projects For Key Management
The nuances of cloud-native architecture necessitate some new approaches to security. Not only are container-based microservices inherently distributed, but there is a rising number of dependencies within the software supply chain. As ...
