Our Mission

Cutting Through the Noise of the Cloud Native Ecosystem

Cloud Native Pulse is a weekly podcast and blog dedicated to delivering clear, practical insights about the CNCF landscape. We interview the people building the tools you use every day.

Meet the Hosts

The Voices Behind the Signal

Alex Rivera

Co-Host and Founder

Platform engineer with 12 years of infrastructure experience. Alex has been running Kubernetes in production since 1.9 and previously led the container platform team at a major fintech company. He brings deep operational knowledge to every conversation.

Dana Chen

Co-Host and Technical Lead

Former CNCF ambassador and observability engineer. Dana specializes in Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing. She brings a unique perspective on making complex systems observable and manageable for teams of all sizes.

Marcus Thompson

Producer and Correspondent

DevOps advocate and community builder. Marcus handles guest coordination, live event coverage, and the newsletter. His background in developer relations means he always asks the questions the audience actually wants answered.

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Kubernetes

Prometheus

Envoy

OpenTelemetry

Argo

Cilium

Istio

Gateway API

Backstage

Sigstore

Knative

Thanos

OPA Gatekeeper

Kyverno

Crossplane

Flux

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