Best of Cloud Native — June 2025

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    Avatar of nordicapisNordic APIs·49w

    Top 10 API Gateways in 2025

    A comprehensive comparison of 10 leading API gateways in 2025, including Kong Gateway, Zuplo, Tyk, Gravitee, MuleSoft, Axway, Sensedia, Azure APIM, WSO2, and IBM API Connect. Each solution is evaluated based on core features, use cases, and target audiences, with considerations for deployment models, protocol requirements, ecosystem integration, and compliance needs. The guide emphasizes that API gateways have evolved beyond simple routing to become control planes for security, observability, and developer experience.

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    Avatar of kodekloudKodeKloud's Squad·49w

    Periodic Table of Cloud & DevOps Tools

    A comprehensive visual guide showcasing 80+ DevOps and cloud tools organized across 12 domains, highlighting how the DevOps landscape has evolved beyond traditional tools like Jenkins and Docker. The guide emphasizes modern practices including GitOps workflows, built-in security, platform engineering, comprehensive observability, and cloud-native architectures. Rather than mastering all tools, the recommendation is to understand one tool per category and its role in the broader ecosystem.

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    Avatar of netguruNetguru·48w

    What is Golang: Why Top Tech Companies Choose Go in 2025

    Go programming language has gained significant adoption among major tech companies due to its simplicity, efficient concurrency model through goroutines, and fast compilation to native code. Originally created by Google to solve build time and complexity issues with C++ and Java, Go emphasizes composition over inheritance and provides built-in concurrency primitives. The language powers critical infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, while offering excellent performance with low memory footprint and fast startup times. Companies value Go for its ease of developer onboarding, reduced operational overhead through static binaries, and comprehensive built-in tooling. With recent additions like generics and a growing ecosystem, Go continues to be the preferred choice for cloud-native applications, microservices, and high-concurrency systems.

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    Avatar of telerikTelerik·47w

    .NET Aspire 1: What Is .NET Aspire?

    .NET Aspire is an opinionated toolkit designed to simplify cloud-native development by providing building blocks that handle common complexities like service discovery, health checks, telemetry, and secret management. The author introduces it as a solution to reduce the cognitive load of managing distributed microservices while maintaining the benefits of cloud-native architecture. The post sets up a five-part series that will demonstrate applying .NET Aspire to transform a monolithic guitar shop application into a microservices architecture.

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