CNCF Seeks to Advance IT Performance Monitoring with OpenMetrics Spec
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has taken on a project to standardize and advance the way performance metrics are reported for cloud-native applications. Building on the data model from...
View ArticleQ&A Scalyr’s Steve Newman: Faster Log Queries, Scalable App Monitoring
You may not know Steve Newman‘s name, but chances are you’ve come into contact with his work. He was one of the brains behind Google Docs, the base technology of which Google obtained in its purchase...
View ArticleNvidia Debuts AI-Ready Turing GPUs, with Real-Time Ray Tracing
GPU Manufacturer Nvidia has introduced a new chip architecture designed specifically for artificial intelligence deep learning work. The GPUs, dubbed Turing, also will be able to do real-time...
View ArticleOracle Open Sources GraphPipe, a Network Protocol for Machine Learning Models
Oracle has invented what it feels is a better way of passing machine learning (ML) data across a network, and it is sharing this protocol with the world. The newly open-sourced network protocol, called...
View ArticleSalesforce Open Sources an Engine to Automate ML Model Building
Customer relationship management service provider Salesforce has released as open source the automated model-building engine that the company uses for its Einstein AI-driven platform. The TransmogrifAI...
View ArticleRedis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services
Redis Labs, citing lack of support from the large cloud providers, has pulled back on some of the open source licensing around its popular Redis NoSQL in-memory data store. While the core of Redis...
View ArticleNew VMware Services Designed to Manage Multicloud Ops
VMware continues to expand its software-as-a-service (SaaS) based cloud operations platform to help its enterprise user base make the most of cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and...
View ArticleBallerina: A Programming Language for Cloud Native Computing
WSo2 sponsored this article. The Ballerina programming language was born from a frustration of how to program an enterprise service bus (ESB), software designed to connect different enterprise...
View ArticleSaltStack Expands into Security Compliance Scanning and Remediation
This post has been sponsored by SaltStack. SaltStack wants to save operations folk from “audit hell.” A new feature of the company’s flagship configuration management software Saltstack Enterprise will...
View ArticleDrone.IO: A Containerized CI/CD System for Cloud Native Development
Brad Rydzewski recalled his initial inspiration for building Drone, which he claims is the first open source container-native CI/CD software: “I wanted to architect out all the red tape companies can...
View ArticleBuoyant Overhauls Linkerd, Moves to a Simpler Service Mesh Model
Buoyant has completed a total overhaul of its Linkerd service mesh, replacing much of the code base with its previously next-generation service mesh project, Conduit. The Conduit codebase is lighter...
View ArticleCortex: Stateful Prometheus Monitoring for Multiple Clients
While many in the cloud native community praise the Prometheus monitoring tool for its ease of use, it was not designed to permanently store operational data, nor be used for more than one client. Now...
View ArticleCNCF, Eclipse Explore Kubernetes-Driven Internet of Things/Edge Computing
The Eclipse Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation have partnered to create a Kubernetes Internet-of-Things (IoT)/Edge Computing Working Group. As IoT technologies become increasingly...
View ArticleHoneycomb’s Charity Majors: Go Ahead, Test in Production
Continuing to question the traditional wisdom that software updates should be tested in their own sandbox environment, Charity Majors, CEO of observability software provider Honeycomb.io, spoke at...
View ArticleGremlin Applies Chaos Testing to Serverless
Expanding upon its failure-as-a-service platform, Gremlin now offers the ability to induce failure in serverless services, with the aim, as in all chaos engineering, to give administrators a better...
View ArticleCNCF Adopts Sysdig’s Falco Container Runtime Monitor
Delving into security, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has accepted Sysdig’s Falco container runtime monitor as an early-stage sandbox project. CNCF and Sysdig are hoping that this software will...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things Needs an Infusion of Web Technologies
Despite being a potential $11 trillion industry, the Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be stuck in neutral. And while there are many problems with IoT that hold it back, one of the chief blocks is...
View ArticleNetApp Goes Cloud Native with StackPointCloud Acquisition
With last month’s acquisition of StackPointCloud, storage services and systems provider NetApp will be in the unique position of offering multicloud Kubernetes support for stateful applications. The...
View ArticleNode.js Removes Version Dependencies for Native Modules
Thanks to a collaborative open source effort across multiple companies, Node.js developers will no longer have to recompile their “native” modules each time Node is upgraded, which is the current...
View ArticleHow Dow Jones Folded Security into its Automated Dev Pipeline
Like many organizations, the Dow Jones financial media company has faced challenges in folding automated security checks into its continuous integration and delivery pipeline, a practice known as...
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