Cloud-Native Networking
Buoyant to Add MCP Support to Linkerd Service Mesh
Buoyant has announced it plans to add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the open source Linkerd service mesh for Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO William Morgan said that capability will ...
Most Cloud-Native Roles are Software Engineers
Cloud-native job market 2025: Software Engineers dominate at 47%, followed by DevOps, Platform Engineers, and SREs. See role trends and insights ...
Why Dapr is the Productivity Boost Every Cloud-Native Team Needs
A new CNCF survey shows 96% of developers using Dapr report faster development cycles, with many citing 30%+ productivity gains. Adoption of the open-source runtime is accelerating as enterprises expand AI-driven applications, ...
Service Mesh at a Crossroads: Istio’s Graduation and the Road Ahead
It wasn’t that long ago that service mesh was the shiny new toy of the cloud-native stack. For many platform teams, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or Kuma promised to solve some of ...
Cloud Native’s Two‑Headed Monster
Kubernetes brought order to containers. Observability brought clarity to complexity. Now, they’re co-leading the cloud-native movement—and redefining the CNCF ecosystem ...
Cloud Native Now: One for the Road
Cloud native is no longer a trend — it’s the fabric weaving together edge, hybrid, and public cloud into the backbone of today’s platforms ...
Sidecars or Sharing: A Practical Guide to Selecting Your Service Mesh
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot of confusion about “sidecars or sidecarless” in the context of service meshes. This architectural choice turns out to be very important – ...
Latest Release of Linkerd Service Mesh Includes Preview of Windows Support
Buoyant this week made available an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that, in addition to providing access to an experimental version that integrates Windows platforms, also makes it now ...
Akamai Allies with Fermyon to Advance Wasm Adoption
Akamai and Fermyon Technologies have an alliance that brings Wasm software components to a highly distributed cloud computing network ...
CNCF Provides Access to Reference Architectures for Cloud-Native Use Cases
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has published a report that defines guidance reference architectures, in addition to guidance to help IT teams better identify which open-source software projects are mature enough ...
