Volterra, the three-year-old startup is one of the most interesting startups we’ve come across lately. Their business model is quite unique and its software stack extensive. The startup doesn’t fit neatly into one particular category or sector, but rather they
MayaData, the San Jose startup is becoming a force in the Kubernetes industry. And the timing is perfect, in that Rancher Labs, another startup focused on Kubernetes just got acquired by SUSE for $600M-$700M. The transaction is good news for
Kubernetes has become the standard for deploying and managing containerized workloads. It’s simple to work with when workloads are basic and complex when multiple clusters and multiple regions are required. Add Istio to the mix, and complexity reaches a new
Stateless apps do not store application state or data to persistent storage, which makes stateless applications highly scalable. However, stateful applications require persistent storage for data for use by clients, servers, and other applications. For instance, the REPL calculator is
Rafay Systems has raised $8M in Series A and is now generally available to the public. The company provides lifecycle management for containerized applications. Lifecycle management is the process of managing the deployment and ongoing operations of containerized apps running
The Fastly IPO was a success for the entire industry. Fastly, along with Cloudflare, StackPath, and Limelight Networks are leading the efforts in edge computing innovation, providing developers the capabilities to build, deploy, and run apps at the edge. From
There are lots of tools out there to help you develop on Kubernetes, whether you are writing an app alone or in a team environment. Several of them, such as Minikube, Minishift and Docker for Windows/Mac, support pure offline development,
Containerization has been swiftly gathering momentum in the IT industry with Gartner predicting that 50% of companies will use some element of container technology by 2020, up from under 20% in 2017. Kubernetes (also known as K8S) is the leading
The Context There is a widespread belief that Kubernetes isn’t ready for stateful applications like MySQL and MongoDB. It has even been asked if running stateful applications in Kubernetes is worth the risk, but developer Kris Nova from Heptio asks
Sunnyvale, California-based Rafay Systems has recently launched as a “CDN for Microservices.” At its core, the Rafay platform is a global edge orchestration service that automates the placement and ongoing operations of latency and location-sensitive workloads closer to users and
Service discovery is about locating the network location of a service provider. Developer Jason Xu likens it to changing your phone number without telling your friend, then losing contact. The same thing applies to services within a microservices architecture program.
The Context Before we focus on distributed tracing, let’s pull back to look at microservices as a whole. For greenfield applications, microservices have become a default choice. They offer the kind of decoupling necessary to allow developers to fully transform
Cloudflare is increasingly stepping into a leadership position in serverless among CDNs. Before we look at why, let’s first take a step back and look at why serverless. There are an increasing number of options for how best to build
Earlier this month, NGINX released the latest version of its flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, and announced the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. The NGINX application platform powers load balancers, microservices and API gateways. These
