Application development

Overcoming the Challenges and Costs of Serverless
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the cloud has always been about reducing undifferentiated heavy lifting in IT. Services like AWS EC2 manage server hardware and give users elastic scaling to ...

Cloud-Native AppSec: Lessons From the Fortune 100
While cloud-native technologies are relatively new to many businesses, Global 2,000 companies have run containers and distributed applications built with microservices and running on platforms like Kubernetes at scale for over a ...

Securing Cloud-Native Data in Transit
Data is central to all cloud-native applications, and keeping that data safe and secure is a challenge all application owners struggle with. When discussing securing the data you use with your cloud-native ...

Cosmonic Open Source Project Integrates Nomad and Cilium
Cosmonic has launched an open source Netreap project to integrate Nomad, an alternative for orchestrating containers from Hashicorp, with the Cilium networking overlay for cloud-native applications created by Isovalent. Dan Norris, head ...

How to Build Next-Gen Apps With Serverless Infrastructure
The cloud has completely changed the game when it comes to building applications. Engineering teams don’t have to settle for monolithic apps or hard-to-manage infrastructure anymore. And with the right cloud service ...

Kubernetes Geek Talk: Understanding Pod Status
In the Kubernetes architecture, a pod is the smallest and simplest unit that can be created and deployed. A pod consists of one or more containers that are tightly coupled and share ...

Microsoft Adds Bevy of Cloud-Native Services to Azure
At its Build conference this week, Microsoft added a slew of capabilities to make it simpler to build, deploy and manage cloud native applications in its Azure cloud computing service, including a ...

Why You Need a Kubernetes Bill of Materials (KBOM)
You’ve probably heard of software bills of materials (SBOMs). And you may already be familiar with infrastructure bills of materials (IBOM) as well. Both ideas are garnering much attention lately as a ...

Red Hat Adds Interconnect and Cybersecurity Services for Kubernetes
Red Hat today added a Red Hat Service Interconnect to its portfolio that is based on an open source Skupper.io project that enables Layer 7 networking between application components running on different ...

Lightbend Unfurls Distributed Akka Platform for Asynchronous Apps
Lightbend today launched a distributed cluster environment for deploying asynchronous Java applications based on its Akka toolkit. James Townley, senior product manager for Akka at Lightbend, said the Akka Distributed Cluster makes ...