Cloud-Native Platforms
Stateful Container High Availability: Good, Better, Best
A 2020 McKinsey global study found that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have been pushed “over the technology tipping point.” The research found that as digital adoption has ramped ...
Gaining a Kubernetes Edge
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Chronosphere Adds Query Builder Tool Based on PromQL
Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform for cloud-native applications based on microservices, this week added support for a Query Builder tool based on the Prometheus query language (PromQL). That capability comes ...
Knative Middleware Reaches 1.0 Milestone
The committee that oversees the development of Knative, open source middleware for integrating Kubernetes clusters with serverless computing frameworks, announced today that a 1.0 release is now available. Omer Bensaadon, a senior ...
CNCF Embraces Dapr to Simplify Building Distributed Apps
The Technical Oversight Committee for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed today that Dapr, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that make it simpler to build distributed applications, has become ...
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 ...
DevOps Needs SQL Server Containers for Windows
In an earlier blog, I explained the need for DevOps database platforms. The DevOps database requirements apply to all variations of containerized SQL databases as needed to support the variations that exist ...
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 ...
What Holistic Cloud-Native Security and Observability Look Like
The rise of cloud-native and containerization, along with the automation of the CI/CD pipeline, introduced fundamental changes to existing application development, deployment, and security paradigms. Because cloud-native is so different from traditional ...
