Key Cloud Native Updates: GitLab IPO, LinkedIn China Exit, VS2022 Preview, Service Mesh Survey

GitLab IPO Surges 35% on First Day

On Oct 14, GitLab (ticker GTLB) debuted on Nasdaq at $77, opened at $94.25 and closed at $103.89, a 35% gain, giving it a market cap of $16.5 billion. Founded in 2011, GitLab is a DevOps platform integrating development, operations, security and business teams.

It competes with GitHub, RedHat, Bitbucket, Atlassian; GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018. In 2021 GitLab formed a joint venture in Wuhan, China.

LinkedIn to End Localized Service in China

Microsoft announced that LinkedIn will discontinue its localized Chinese version later this year, shifting to a new product called InJobs that will provide only job listings without social features. The decision cites a challenging operating environment and higher compliance requirements.

LinkedIn, founded in 2003, has over 540 million members worldwide, with more than 54 million in China, but Chinese users contribute little to overall revenue.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5 and Release Candidate Released

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2022 will ship on Nov 8, and made Preview 5 and the RC available. The preview adds Xcode support, fixes multi‑monitor scaling issues, warns on certain ARM64EC registers, and improves hot‑reload editing during test runs.

Delta Lake Definitive Guide (Early Release) – Book Recommendation

Databricks will publish “Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide” (early release) covering Lakehouse architecture, ACID transactions, time travel, schema enforcement, and how Delta Lake enhances data quality and performance on Apache Spark.

Cloud‑Native Security Micro‑Survey Highlights

The CNCF Security TAG micro‑survey received over 125 responses. 85 % consider modern cloud‑native security important, yet only 9 % have documented automated processes. Participants identified vulnerability management and secret management as top concerns, and called for secure defaults and automation tools.

Service Mesh Ultimate Guide – Second Edition

The guide reviews service mesh capabilities—connectivity, reliability, observability, security—and emerging patterns such as multi‑cluster, media service mesh, and chaos mesh. It discusses deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure, production‑ready recipes, conservative defaults, OPA Gatekeeper, and sidecar enhancements.

Cloud‑Native Course Recommendation

KubeSphere’s “Cloud Native in Practice” course covers container fundamentals, Kubernetes, DevOps, and advanced topics like Istio, Jaeger, Prometheus, ELK, and Spring Cloud Kubernetes, aiming to enable developers to build resilient, high‑scale cloud‑native applications.