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.
Why Cloud-Native Companies Should Support Open Source
Open source software (OSS) makes up the bedrock of our digital lives. And naturally, OSS is the foundation for most modern cloud-native infrastructure. In fact, a recent report from CNCF found a ...
The State of Cloud-Native Observability Tools
Observability is becoming more and more critical for overseeing the health of large cloud-native software ecosystems. With better access to data like logs, metrics and traces, engineers can better maintain their systems ...
5 CNCF Projects for Streaming and Messaging
Event-driven architecture is becoming more commonplace within cloud-native ecosystems. By focusing on events, services can automatically trigger additional functionality, reducing manual legwork and evolving the traditional request-response communication paradigm. In such streaming ...
Case Study: Using K8s to Navigate Medical Shortages
Kubernetes (K8s) continues to grab the attention of engineers within many sectors as the industry-standard method to deploy and orchestrate large fleets of containers. Cloud-native strategies involving K8s are having a modernizing ...
Kubernetes: Separating the Hype From Production Success
Interest in Kubernetes is reaching near-ubiquity. According to the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual survey, 96% of organizations are either using Kubernetes or evaluating its use. However, this does not ...
The State of Policy Management In Kubernetes
Kubernetes is enabling powerful container orchestration capabilities for many organizations. But with this power comes great responsibility. Securing Kubernetes access is crucial to meet compliance requirements and avoid data leaks. And a ...
Best of 2021 – How Not To Use Kubernetes: 5 Failure Stories
As we close out 2021, we at Container Journal wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifteenth in our series of the Best of 2021. I ...
When Is Service Mesh Worth It?
Service mesh is getting a lot of interest these days, especially as new meshes enter the market to join Istio, Linkerd and Kuma as established open source options. The technology brings a common ...
Going Cloud-Native in Highly Regulated Industries
IT divisions working within highly-regulated industries are under intense scrutiny. These environments must carefully deal with sensitive data to meet compliances and corporate standards. This pressure often results in vigorous tooling assessments ...
Kubernetes Sprawl Is Here: Contain Your Excitement
Kubernetes has solidified itself as a top container orchestrator tool. And use only continues to expand—a 2020 CNCF survey found that 92% of cloud-native developers have used Kubernetes in production. That’s up ...
