By Nikolay Nikolaev At the recent Open Networking Summit Europe 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium, I co-presented a talk on “Crafting Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) Using the X-Factor CNF Methodology” with Frederick Kautz of Doc.ai. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, I’ll explain in this post what we mean by X-Factor CNFs, point to how Read more...
By Nisha Kumar A good-first-issue, as you probably know, is a GitHub issue or pull request that has been marked by its creator as appropriate for beginners. Typically, it’s also given a good first issue label, making it easier for newcomers to find, although some projects use terms like easy-fix, beginner-friendly, or low-hanging fruit. However Read more...
By Ivana Atanasova The Service Mesh Interface (SMI) is a popular and valuable effort to create a common, portable set of APIs that allow applications to address multiple service mesh solutions. Although Network Service Mesh (NSM) differs from other service mesh offerings in the networking level it addresses, the NSM team decided that it would Read more...
By Nikolay Nikolaev During the European Open Networking Summit in Antwerp, we showcased Network Service Mesh (NSM) on the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) testbed for the first time. In a joint presentation with CNF Testbed project lead Taylor Carpenter, Taylor and I covered how we enabled NSM, described the ongoing work project, and shared Read more...
By Yordan Karadzhov We all come to open source from different places, but my particular journey to becoming a full-time open source contributor—and more recently a project co-maintainer—is a little unusual. I started out working in experimental physics doing scientific computing. As part of my work, I was also a project co-maintainer, and it’s interesting Read more...
