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.
Envoy Proxy Unveils Envoy Gateway For North-South Traffic
The team behind Envoy Proxy has announced Envoy Gateway, new open source software aiming to improve accessibility for using Envoy for north-south traffic use cases. If accepted as a standard, Envoy Gateway ...
Majority of Apps Will Use Cloud-Native Development By 2023
Cloud-native development—apps built using containers that run on platforms like Kubernetes—is a fast-growing area. Cloud-native technology is vital for enabling the scalability and agility required for today’s digital transformation initiatives—even highly-regulated enterprises ...
The State of K8s Software Supply Chain Attacks
Securing the software supply chain is in the zeitgeist, and for a good reason. Software supply chain attacks grew by more than 300% from 2020 to 2021. Supply chain attacks continue to ...
How Can Enterprises Govern Surging Kubernetes Use?
Kubernetes has emerged as a de facto container orchestrator. A full 88% of companies surveyed by Red Hat now use Kubernetes for container orchestration. However, not all Kubernetes initiatives are successful. D2IQ ...
9 CNCF Tools For Automation and Configuration
One element growing in importance in the cloud-native stack is provisioning. As software delivery timelines accelerate, there is a greater need to quickly automate and configure computing environments. Applying standard configurations across ...
Sigstore Sets Out to Secure Cloud-Native Supply Chain
Open source software (OSS) is pervasive — 90% of companies are now using OSS. But this reliance is a double-edged sword. Amid rising software supply chain attacks, we’re witnessing the fragility of ...
How to Avoid Drowning In Cloud-Native Observability Data
Cloud-native monitoring is becoming more essential as companies seek to improve how their infrastructure operates. This data can be leveraged for root cause analysis, improving response times to incidents and retaining available ...
Why Uniting Cloud-Native and AI/ML Is a Win-Win
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a huge, divisive topic. We often hear about it in the mainstream media as if it’s this conscious, evil provocateur, like a Skynet about to control all of ...
4 Service Proxy Projects From CNCF
Standardizing communication between various apps and servers is paramount in our world of connected software. To manage traffic in a scalable way, software systems typically deploy a service proxy as a backend ...
7 CNCF Tools for Scheduling and Orchestration
Container managers like Kubernetes have become critical to managing large numbers of containers. By running containers in a cluster—a group of machines—a system can optimize how each application consumes memory. Automating these ...
