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.
When Using Kubernetes Does (and Doesn’t) Make Sense
Kubernetes is so ubiquitous that it almost feels like a given when containers are involved. Having a standard method to orchestrate containers is a huge win for DevOps at scale, but is ...
CNCF: 80% of Orgs Want Open Source Cloud-Native Security
Open source software is now essential for driving digital innovation. And arguably, the cloud-native space wouldn’t exist without it — open source software (OSS) is now ubiquitous throughout all aspects of cloud-native ...
Introduction to Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Recent decades have seen organizations adopt various types of software applications along the road to digitalization. Some of these applications face end users and others are used by internal operators. And, more ...
4 Container Runtime Projects From CNCF
Containers have become a popular method to build out fully independent and tightly controlled applications that essentially act as if they’re running on their own computer. Container runtimes are the software that ...
7 Open Source Cloud-Native Tools For Observability and Analysis
In 2021, ‘observability’ is close to gaining buzzword status. This is perhaps because, for years, monitoring wasn’t as standardized in software development. Tracing was given less forethought, and applications produced logs in ...
6 Cloud-Native Tools For Security and Compliance
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) continues to lead the industry in supporting new cloud-native technologies. The innovative packages hosted by CNCF have seen impressive adoption rates among software teams of all ...
6 CNCF Service Mesh Tools
Microservices have grown tremendously in use—they enable decoupled, reusable components and support a rapid development approach. However, it’s challenging to manage a sea of disparate microservices. It’s specifically difficult to consistently apply ...
Enabling Successful Stateful Kubernetes Deployments
Due to their portable nature, containers were originally intended to be stateless. But over time, developers have begun to utilize containers for stateful scenarios as well, combining the speed of containers with ...
Using Service Mesh to Enable Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA)
Cybersecurity is not only a threat to private enterprises, it’s a national government priority, too. A 2021 presidential executive order names zero-trust architecture (ZTA) as part of new cybersecurity initiatives across government ...
The Last Cloud-Native Puzzle Piece: Security Automation
In recent years, DevOps has embraced automation in this new cloud-native world. Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is now commonly applied to spin up servers, automate configurations, set up storage and apply standard networking features ...
