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KubeCon Europe 2024: Highlights from Paris

KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date. With over 12,000 participants, it was a monumental event, setting the stage for the latest trends and developments in cloud-native computing. As your loyal CNCF Ambassador, I’m here to share some of the important updates you don’t want to miss. I also invited fellow CNCF Ambassador Thomas Schuetz to join me with his own insights.

Navigating the future of tech: Insights from Solomon Hykes

Earlier this year, Mark Boost and Dinesh Majrekar had the chance to sit down with Solomon Hykes at Navigate North America 2024 to speak about his thoughts on the future of tech. Solomon is best known as the Founder, former Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Architect of Docker, and is currently the founder of Dagger, a programmable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines in containers, allowing development in various programming languages and execution across diverse environments.

Building Modern REST APIs with OpenAPI

No, I'm not talking about 'OpenAI', though you certainly can use it to assist in your API designs. I'm talking about the OpenAPI standard, a modern spec for defining REST APIs. If you're reading this, I probably don't need to tell you that REST APIs are ubiquitous in tech. Practically every company has at least one, whether it be an internal or customer facing API. While other types of APIs have been gaining traction the last few years (GraphQL, gRPC, etc), REST is here to stay.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices and Essential Tools

As Kubernetes adoption continues to surge across various industries, the need for robust monitoring solutions is more critical than ever. Effective Kubernetes monitoring not only ensures the health and performance of your containerized applications but also provides valuable insights for troubleshooting and optimizing your infrastructure. However, Kubernetes's distributed and dynamic nature presents unique challenges regarding monitoring and observability.

Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Kubernetes troubleshooting is a critical skill for developers and system administrators managing containerized applications. It involves diagnosing and resolving issues within a Kubernetes cluster, ensuring that applications run smoothly and efficiently. Troubleshooting can range from simple configuration errors to complex networking issues, requiring a deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and components.

Test Automation Best Practices Maximizing Efficiency and Effectiveness

Test automation has become an indispensable part of software development, ensuring faster releases, higher quality, and overall cost-effectiveness. However, to reap the full benefits, it’s crucial to implement best practices that maximize efficiency and effectiveness. In this blog post, we’ll delve into some key strategies and tips for achieving optimal results with test automation.

Automating Ephemeral Environments with Kubernetes: A Quick Guide

Ephemeral environments are temporary, isolated, but self-contained deployment environments crucial for development and testing within software projects. While I already discussed the basics and benefits of Ephemeral Environments, today I will go through the practical steps of implementing ephemeral environments in your CI/CD pipeline using Kubernetes. I will start with how you can do it with Kubernetes native tools, and how you can automate the ephemeral environments in your CI/CD.

How to Use Kubernetes to Control a Vast Network of Clusters? Insights from Gianluca Mardente

Dive into the world of Kubernetes with Gianluca Mardente, Principal Engineer at Cisco, as he shares insights from managing a vast fleet of Kubernetes clusters within Cisco's App Dynamics business unit. Explore the evolution from managing a handful to scaling up for extensive applications and clusters, leveraging container orchestration to maintain agility in cloud and on-premises environments. Plus, discover the strategic use of tools like Cluster API and Crossplane for automation, handling dependencies, and the dynamic deployment of applications.

What is platform engineering and when should you invest in it?

As application platforms grow larger, the idea of DevOps teams where developers support the software development lifecycle, but also manage infrastructure and the platform, is beginning to reach the limits of what these teams can support. Rather than taking their best application developers and making them work on infrastructure problems, more organizations are coming to the conclusion that a centralized platform team specialized in that area is a better use of their developers’ skill sets.