The Ambassador Labs team and I have safely returned from another KubeCon EU, and after a two-year hiatus for many of us, this time we attended in person (with real people in 3D)! It was awesome to catch up with so many of our cloud native friends after only interacting…

Docker Desktop Extensions, DD4L, and key observations from the container community — The Ambassador Labs team and I had a lot of fun attending the latest virtual DockerCon this week. As many others noted on Twitter after the event, it very much looks like the Docker ecosystem is thriving. There were a bunch of product launches, such as Docker Extensions, Docker Desktop…

News from the Docker Community All-Hands: Docker Extensions, Docker Desktop for Linux, and more! — I attended the virtual Docker Community 9th birthday all-hands session yesterday, and it was great to see so many familiar faces and nicknames in the chat. I can’t quite believe that it’s been nine years! 🐳 I remember the early birthdays celebrated at real-life meetups in Shoreditch, London, where the…

What is platform engineering and why might it be key to good developer experiences? — Almost every day we hear about another organization building an internal developer platform or developer control plane. …

In the previous two parts of this series on Testing Microservices, you have learned about the concept of request isolation and explored how this enables multiple developers to “share” a single staging environment and still get the fast development/testing feedback loops. …

In the first article of this Testing Microservices series, I discussed the challenges of testing microservices, specifically in relation to the temptation to create large single-developer environments for use for both (inner loop) fast feedback development and (outer loop) integration testing. I presented the concept of testing using developer “request…

I’ve been keenly following the Lyft article series presenting how they have scaled their development practices as they adopted microservices and cloud native technologies, and so I was super excited when I saw Cindy Sridharan tweet about the release of the latest installment. …

It’s that time of year again when we get to reflect on another awesome KubeCon NA. …

Key takeaways from the most recent Virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon — The Ambassador Labs team have once again returned home from another awesome KubeCon! Of course, this time we didn’t ever leave our homes in the first place, but it was great to be connected virtually to the world wide cloud native community once again over the past week. …