An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a foundational concept in modern software engineering. It acts as a bridge between developers and the underlying infrastructure, tools, and processes needed to build, deploy, and manage software efficiently ... Read More

When we open sourced Goldilocks in October 2019, our goal was to provide a dashboard utility that helps you identify a baseline for setting Kubernetes resource requests and limits. We continue to refine Goldilocks, because getting resource requests and limits just right is an ongoing challenge for most organizations ... Read More

One of the questions that I get most frequently from our clients at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource requests and limits to?” Goldilocks is an open source Kubernetes controller developed by Fairwinds that provides a dashboard that gives recommendations on how to set your ... Read More

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly changing modern enterprises, but harnessing its full potential demands not only excellent models, but infrastructure expertise. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has emerged as a foundation for AI innovation, providing a platform that combines cloud-native flexibility, enterprise-grade security, and seamless access to advanced accelerators. In a ... Read More

Retail organizations today face unprecedented pressures, from rapidly changing customer expectations to surging data volumes and omnichannel complexity. Many still rely on legacy systems that have faithfully powered their operations for decades. While these systems are battle-tested, they increasingly inhibit agility and scalability, limiting retailers’ ability to respond quickly to ... Read More

At KubeCon EU this April, I was on a panel presenting “A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code.” I was joined by Rita Zhang, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, the SIG Auth Chair, a member of the Security Response Committee, and a maintainer of Gatekeeper; Joe Betz, a Staff ... Read More

With the rise of AI across every industry, the buzzwords are flying fast—AI infrastructure, infrastructure for AI workloads, autonomous infrastructure, and more. The problem? These terms are often used interchangeably, and it’s easy to get lost in the noise ... Read More

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer an experimental side project. It's reshaping industries, the world we live in and becoming central to product innovation and competitive advantage. But beneath every impressive AI model lies a complex infrastructure stack that powers it ... Read More

The concept of cloud agnosticism—building applications and services that can operate seamlessly across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs)—has long been hailed as a way to avoid vendor lock-in. In fact, Corey Quinn wrote and spoke about the myth of cloud agnosticism in 2018! A multi-cloud approach can also mean using ... Read More

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for orchestrating containerized workloads, but efficient resource management remains a challenge for many organizations. It’s important to get right though! Over-provisioning leads to wasted cloud spend, while under-provisioning risks instability, throttling, or outages. When we first open-sourced Goldilocks in October 2019, our goal was ... Read More