Bill Doerrfeld is a tech journalist and analyst. His beat is cloud technologies, specifically the web API economy. He began researching APIs as an Associate Editor at ProgrammableWeb, and since 2015 has been the Editor at Nordic APIs, a high-impact blog on API strategy for providers. He loves discovering new trends, interviewing key contributors, and researching new technology. He also gets out into the world to speak occasionally.
6 Cloud-Native Tools For Security and Compliance
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) continues to lead the industry in supporting new cloud-native technologies. The innovative packages hosted by CNCF have seen impressive adoption rates among software teams of all ...
6 CNCF Service Mesh Tools
Microservices have grown tremendously in use—they enable decoupled, reusable components and support a rapid development approach. However, it’s challenging to manage a sea of disparate microservices. It’s specifically difficult to consistently apply ...
Enabling Successful Stateful Kubernetes Deployments
Due to their portable nature, containers were originally intended to be stateless. But over time, developers have begun to utilize containers for stateful scenarios as well, combining the speed of containers with ...
Using Service Mesh to Enable Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA)
Cybersecurity is not only a threat to private enterprises, it’s a national government priority, too. A 2021 presidential executive order names zero-trust architecture (ZTA) as part of new cybersecurity initiatives across government ...
The Last Cloud-Native Puzzle Piece: Security Automation
In recent years, DevOps has embraced automation in this new cloud-native world. Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is now commonly applied to spin up servers, automate configurations, set up storage and apply standard networking features ...
CNCF Announces Linkerd Graduation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of Linkerd, the popular open source service mesh lauded for its fast performance and ultralight footprint. Linkerd now joins the ranks of ...
Introduction to the Kubernetes Cluster API
Kubernetes use has expanded across DevOps to help with orchestrating container environments. In 2021, 68% of IT professionals increased their Kubernetes use. But as Kubernetes use rises, the next step is figuring ...
CNCF Radar Highlights Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Preferences
Kubernetes use has surged in recent years. While there has been much consolidation around Kubernetes for container orchestration (with some outliers), companies still adopt many different technologies to address Kubernetes multi-cluster management ...
OCI Announces Distribution Specification v1.0
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) recently announced the v1.0 release of the Distribution Specification. The Distribution Specification is part of a family of container format specifications standardized by the OCI, a Linux ...
Could Nomad Reignite Orchestrator Wars?
Most technology pundits agree that Kubernetes won the container orchestration wars, triumphing over alternatives like Docker Swarm and Mesos. Google even showcases a featured snippet for the exact moment of victory—November 29, ...
