Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest buzzwords these days, dominating headlines and rocking the stock market. Many companies have already added AI functionality to their software solutions, and many hope to add even more in the coming months. It’s important to remember, however, that the foundation these technologies ... Read More

Managed Kubernetes is a service offered by cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters. These cloud providers each offer their own “flavor” of managed K8s: Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon ... Read More

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation is a specialized program designed to validate AWS Partners that have experience, deep technical expertise, and proven success delivering specific AWS services for clients. In October 2022, AWS announced a new designation for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that focuses on ... Read More

It seems like everyone is talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) these days. As more organizations seek to incorporate AI and ML into their solutions, the need for processing power is growing rapidly. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are at the heart of this demand, providing the necessary horsepower ... Read More

Since Kubernetes turns ten this year, I spent some time reflecting on how Kubernetes completely redefined my career. Eight years ago, I was racking servers, running Puppet (poorly), and struggling to make our service highly available using Corosync, Pacemaker, and HAProxy. Rotating certificates was a nightmare process every year and ... Read More

In container orchestration, Kubernetes has become the go-to solution for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. Ten years after Kubernetes was made publicly available, however, the complexities associated with deploying it across diverse environments requires tooling to help maintain efficiency, security, and reliability. Integrating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, ... Read More

Is your organization feeling stuck using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as Tanzu Application Service (TAS or sometimes VMware Cloud Foundation)? You're not alone. Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023. To make the most of their acquisition, Broadcom is trying to squeeze money out of VMware ... Read More

In the rapidly evolving Kubernetes ecosystem, managing costs effectively is as critical as ensuring operational efficiency. To make the most of your shift to cloud native technologies in 2024, you need a roadmap to Kubernetes cost optimization, including how to right-size resources, centralize cost management, align teams, and eliminate wasted ... Read More

In the technology world, you may have heard that Kubernetes is great — but complicated. But what does that really mean? Since we've been practitioners in the space a while, helping other organizations build and deploy workloads in Kubernetes , we thought it might be helpful to share some of ... Read More

Kubernetes rightsizing is the process you use to ensure that your Kubernetes cluster has the right amount of resources to run your workloads efficiently. K8s rightsizing includes CPU, memory, and storage, and it’s important to get right. It can be expensive to run Kubernetes, so you need to make sure ... Read More