Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to Jemalloc
Meta announced a renewed focus on jemalloc, the high‑performance memory allocator that underpins its infrastructure. The company has unarchived the open‑source repository and outlined a roadmap to cut technical debt, modernize the codebase, and add features such as a stronger huge‑page allocator, improved memory‑efficiency mechanisms, and AArch64 optimizations. Meta also emphasized deeper collaboration with the broader community to steer future development. The initiative aims to keep jemalloc reliable and adaptable to emerging hardware and workloads.
Build Real Cloud Skills, Not Just Certificates
Want to become a cloud engineer? Stop running behind badges. Start building skills that actually matter. 1️⃣ Understand cloud cost and budgeting. 2️⃣ Learn security and IAM properly. 3️⃣ Get comfortable with automation and Infrastructure as Code. 4️⃣ And most importantly, build real problem-solving ability instead...
Your Engineering Intelligence Tool Told You What’s Broken. Now What?
Companies invest heavily in engineering intelligence dashboards that surface bottlenecks such as slow code reviews, flaky tests, and long CI pipelines. However, most tools only measure problems and leave remediation to manual ticket processes, turning insights into costly wallpaper. Port’s...
Kubernetes for DevOps Engineers: Mastering Modern Patterns
Kubernetes 1.35, released December 2025, deprecates cgroups v1 and retires the community‑maintained Ingress‑NGINX project, forcing a shift to the Gateway API for service exposure. The release also drops IPVS in favor of nftables, mandates containerd 2.0, and promotes in‑place vertical pod scaling as...
InsightFinder AI Launches ARI, an Operational Reliability Agent Built for the AI Era
InsightFinder AI unveiled Autonomous Reliability Insights (ARI), an operational reliability agent powered by its composite AI technology. ARI automates end‑to‑end incident management—detecting anomalies, diagnosing root causes, recommending or executing remediation, and generating predictive alerts. The solution embeds human‑in‑the‑loop approvals and...
AI‑generated Code Speeds Delivery, but Reliability Suffers
On one end, the Anthropic team is a massive user of AI to write code (80%+ of all code deployed is written by Claude Code). They ship amazingly fast. On the other hand, seeing these beyond terrible reliability numbers suggests there...
OTTL Context Inference Comes to the Filter Processor
The OpenTelemetry Collector’s Filter Processor now supports OTTL context inference starting with collector‑contrib v0.146.0, introducing top‑level `*_conditions` fields that replace nested context blocks. Operators can write a flat list of expressions, and the processor automatically determines the correct telemetry context...
Product Update: AI-Driven Onboarding and Workflow Automation in Semaphore
In this episode, Pete outlines Semaphore's new AI-driven assistant that streamlines CI/CD onboarding by converting natural language descriptions into fully configured pipelines. The assistant also offers ongoing workflow insights, error explanations, reruns, and configuration suggestions while preserving full developer control...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Kubernetes on Edge Day
Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, spotlighting how Kubernetes is deployed beyond data centers into resource‑constrained, distributed environments. Since its 2022 debut, the co‑located event has grown alongside the edge ecosystem, now featuring AI, telco, data, and...
Token Efficiency, Not Volume, Defines the ClaudeCode Edge
Everyone has ClaudeCode. The edge is how efficiently you spend tokens, not how much you spend. Agreed?
Evals Skills for Coding Agents
Hamel Husain released evals‑skills, an open‑source plugin that equips AI coding agents with a toolbox for product‑specific evaluation. The package introduces an eval‑audit skill that inspects six diagnostic areas of an evaluation pipeline and a suite of targeted skills for...
Run Pulumi Insights on Your Own Infrastructure
Pulumi announced that its Insights platform can now be run on customer‑managed workflow runners, allowing enterprises to execute discovery scans and policy evaluations within their own infrastructure. The self‑hosted option supports both SaaS Pulumi Cloud and self‑hosted installations, and works...
28 Must‑Know Production‑Ready Kubernetes Commands
Kubernetes Cheat Sheet. 28 commands. Production-ready usage. If you’re working with Kubernetes, these are not optional. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for more. #kubernetes #devops #k8s #cloudengineer #sre #platformengineering
Master Common Kubernetes Errors to Outpace DevOps Peers
Kubernetes production errors you must know: CrashLoopBackOff ImagePullBackOff OOMKilled Pod Pending Ingress 502/503 RBAC Forbidden ConfigMap not updating DNS failures If you can explain the root cause and fix for these, you’re ahead of most DevOps engineers. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for production-focused DevOps content. #kubernetes #devops #k8s #cloudengineer #sre #cloudnative
AI Trust Through Open Collaboration: A New Chapter for Responsible Innovation
Red Hat’s acquisition of Chatterbox Labs has enabled a joint effort with Amazon’s Nova Responsible AI team to embed advanced safety testing into generative AI development. The collaboration introduced the AIMI platform’s Progressive Attack Escalation technique, allowing early detection of...
AgentOps: Full Stack Needed to Scale AI Agents
AgentOps = MLOps for autonomous AI. 🧠⚙️ To scale agents in production you need the full stack: 🗺️ planning 🧠 memory/context 🤖 execution (tools/APIs/code) 📈 monitoring 🔁 optimization 🛡️ governance 🏗️ infrastructure Agents don’t scale without operations. #AgentOps #AIAgents #AgenticAI #LLMs #Automation
Token Flow Design Drives LLM Cost Predictability
Operational LLM engineering is about cost predictability. Model selection matters, but token flow design determines whether your system survives real traffic.
AWS Middle East Disrupted After ‘Objects Struck Datacenter’ Amid Iran War
Amazon Web Services reported a power outage in its UAE ME‑CENTRAL‑1 availability zone after unknown objects struck the datacenter, sparking a fire that temporarily halted EC2 APIs. Meanwhile, Australian software firm WiseTech Global announced up to 2,000 job cuts as...
Vercel’s Multi‑AZ Architecture Keeps Services Running During Dubai Outage
Last year we announced the Vercel Dubai region (𝚍𝚡𝚋𝟷) on AWS 𝚖𝚎-𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕-𝟷. A region is made up of multiple availability zones (AZs). The AWS availability zone 𝚖𝚎𝚌𝟷-𝚊𝚣𝟸 just got 💥 bombed. Our primary traffic ingress AZ has been unaffected. Fluid functions are...
Targeted File Retrieval Boosts LLM Code Accuracy, Cuts Costs
When LLMs generate or modify code, context must include relevant files, not the entire repository. Targeted retrieval keeps outputs accurate and budgets stable.
IT's Evolving Role in Advancing Organizational Growth
IT is transitioning from a back‑office system provider to a strategic, customer‑facing partner that drives end‑to‑end change. Leaders are urged to co‑create transformation roadmaps, adopt outcome‑based KPIs, and build modular, API‑first platforms that reduce duplication. Lightweight, proportional governance combined with...
I Rewrote My Step Function as a Durable Function
The author rewrote a serverless weather‑checking workflow from AWS Step Functions to the newly announced Lambda Durable Functions, publishing both implementations on GitHub. Both versions perform identical tasks—polling OpenWeatherMap every ten minutes and updating a static S3 site—but the coding...
A Complete End-to-End Coding Guide to MLflow Experiment Tracking, Hyperparameter Optimization, Model Evaluation, and Live Model Deployment
The article presents a step‑by‑step tutorial that builds a production‑grade MLflow workflow, covering tracking server setup, nested hyperparameter sweeps, automatic logging, model evaluation, and live REST‑API serving. It demonstrates how to configure a SQLite backend, use MLflow autologging for scikit‑learn...
Why GenAI-Based Coding Agents Are a Complex Domain in Cynefin - and What that Means for Adoption
The piece frames generative‑AI coding agents as a complex problem space within the Cynefin framework, emphasizing that prompt‑to‑output behavior is inherently unpredictable. Unlike traditional developer tools that sit in clear or complicated domains, LLM‑driven agents require safe‑to‑fail experiments, rapid feedback,...
10 Must‑Know
These Git errors are asked in DevOps interviews. 10 common Git errors. 10 quick fixes. Save this post. Follow @devopsshack for more. #DevOps #DevOpsEngineer #Git #GitTips #GitCommands #VersionControl #CI_CD #Kubernetes #CloudComputing #SoftwareEngineering
AFL++ Integration Makes Libghostty Fuzzing Fast and Fun
I'll write more about this later, but I've spent the past few days hooking up libghostty with AFL++ and fuzzing various parts of it and agents make the full path of fuzz => verify with test case => minimize =>...
Obsidian Sync Now Has a Headless Client
Obsidian has released a headless client for its Sync service, allowing vaults to be synchronized via a command‑line interface instead of the desktop app. The tool supports one‑time and continuous sync, can be driven by an authentication token for non‑interactive...
GenAI Turns Governance Into Continuous Cloud Resilience
GenAI isn't just a coding accelerator - it's a resiliency play. Translate governance policies to cloud-native controls (IAM, network, data, backups) per provider, then use AI to continuously detect drift and generate remediation plans. #SRE #AI https://t.co/vBzM21vM14
Observability, Control Flow, Interruption: Key to Safe Agent Orchestration
Terrific thread on agent orchestration architectures. "If an agent started making confident but wrong decisions, how many actions would execute before I could stop it?" The three magic words are "observability", "control flow ownership", and "interruption".
NDSS 2025 – JBomAudit: Assessing The Landscape, Compliance, And Security Implications Of Java SBOMS
The NDSS 2025 paper JBomAudit presents the first systematic study of Java Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), analyzing 25,882 SBOMs and their associated JAR files. It finds that 7,907 SBOMs (about 30%) omit direct dependencies, and 4.97% of those hidden...
Agents Will Eclipse GUIs, Boosting Libghostty Adoption
Love to see it! Prediction: within a couple years the terminal GUI will no longer be the primary interface to agents, but there's going to be a hell of a lot of libghostty because agents are going to be increasingly...
Document Everything: Show Your Thinking Over Code Syntax
💡 If you’re moving into DevOps, start documenting everything you build. Architecture diagrams, tradeoffs, failures. ✨ Hiring managers care more about your thinking than your syntax. ✨
The Rise of Agentic AI in Production: Can Observability Systems Run Themselves?
The Grafana "Big Tent" podcast highlighted the rise of agentic AI in observability, featuring Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos and Grafana engineers. They discussed how AI agents use knowledge graphs to automate root‑cause analysis and troubleshoot production incidents. A real‑world example...
LVM: Essential for Flexible Linux Storage Management
If you work with Linux servers, basic partitions won’t always be enough. That’s where LVM helps. In real systems, storage needs grow. Logs, apps, databases — everything expands. With LVM you can: • Resize storage more easily • Combine multiple disks • Extend space when...
If Your Pipeline Takes 15+ Minutes, Redesign It
Fix Slowness In Pipelines ✅ If your pipeline takes 15+ minutes, you designed it wrong. Smart caching. Parallel jobs. Conditional security. Dedicated runners. That’s real DevOps. Save this post. Follow @Devopsshack for senior-level breakdowns. #DevOpsEngineer #CICDPipeline #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #Docker #Automation #InfraAsCode
Before You Migrate: Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors You Need to Know
Kubernetes will retire the community‑maintained Ingress‑NGINX controller in March 2026, prompting users to migrate to alternatives such as Gateway API. The blog outlines five unexpected Ingress‑NGINX behaviors—case‑insensitive regex matching, global use‑regex impact, implicit regex from rewrite‑target, automatic trailing‑slash redirects, and URL...
New Claude Code Skills Automate PRs and Migrations
In the next version of Claude Code.. We're introducing two new Skills: /simplify and /batch. I have been using both daily, and am excited to share them with everyone. Combined, these kills automate much of the work it used to take to...
Tech Alone Won’t Drive AI; Practices Must Evolve
RT I compare this genAI moment to early web and cloud eraswhen transformation only happened after we changed practices (agile, DevOps, design thinking), not just technology. Same story, new stakes. #CIO #AI #DigitalTransformation @Star_CIO https://t.co/xfrVmpSIJN
What Secure Digital Work Looks Like Next: Omnissa CEO Takes the Stage at IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026
Omnissa CEO Shankar Iyer will headline IGEL Now & Next Miami 2026, showcasing the company’s AI‑driven digital work platform that merges endpoint management, virtual desktops and security into a single control plane. The platform is positioned as a frictionless, adaptive...
Distributed Orchestration Optimizes Underutilized Neoclouds
Datapoint or a trend Neoclouds need optimization from underutilization This is where distributed orchestration like @YottaLabs shines
Vercel Launches Robust Queues API for Unbreakable Software
Queues are one of the most requested services since I started Vercel. They're now here. It's just two APIs: 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 and 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 😌. The use-cases are basically infinite. Notably: queues can make agents and AI apps reliable. Quality and reliability are top...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: BackstageCon
BackstageCon, the dedicated conference for the Backstage developer portal, returns as a co‑located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The program emphasizes AI‑enabled platform engineering, showcasing sessions on managing AI software catalogs, integrating Kubeflow, and extending Backstage with runtime...
AWU by Salesforce: A Shiny New Metric that Tells CIOs Little of Value
Salesforce introduced the Agentic Work Unit (AWU) metric on its earnings call, positioning it as a way for CIOs to quantify the output of AI‑driven agents. The metric pairs the number of discrete actions performed with token consumption to suggest...
Big Cloud Still Runs Most Containers on VMs; What Does that Mean for the Rest of Us?
Analyst firm ReveCom found that the world’s largest cloud providers—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean—deploy the overwhelming majority of their containerized workloads on virtual machines rather than on bare‑metal servers. Benchmark data shows VM‑hosted containers achieve roughly 99 % of bare‑metal...
A/B Test LLM Prompts with Real Metrics, Not Ego
You tweak a prompt. It looks better. You ship it. A week later: - quality dips - costs rise - edge cases break Most teams “improve” prompts without proving anything. A/B testing for LLMs isn’t about ego. It’s about real users, real workloads, real cost. Here’s how to...
Unified Intelligence: Mastering the Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning Integration
The article outlines how Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning can be tightly integrated to create a unified intelligence pipeline. Databricks handles large‑scale data ingestion, cleaning, and feature engineering using Spark and Delta Lake, while Azure ML supplies model versioning,...
Vulnerability Management Core Capabilities Every Platform Should Have
Vulnerability management platforms must evolve beyond basic scanning to address today’s complex attack surface. Core capabilities now include automated asset discovery, continuous scanning with real‑time risk scoring, integrated remediation workflows, threat‑intelligence enrichment, and compliance‑aligned reporting. These functions enable security teams...
The Reliability Cost of Default Timeouts
A recent outage showed that infinite default HTTP timeouts let slow downstream calls consume resources until user‑perceived latency caused revenue loss. The Product Service waited indefinitely for a currency API, saturating thread pools and cascading delays across unrelated requests. Fixing...
Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor in Developer Environments
Security researchers discovered a malicious Go module, github.com/xinfeisoft/crypto, that masquerades as the legitimate golang.org/x/crypto library. The backdoored ReadPassword function captures plaintext credentials, writes them to /usr/share/nano/.lock, and exfiltrates them via a dynamically supplied GitHub Raw URL. After exfiltration, the module pulls and...
Master Fundamentals Before Tackling Kubernetes in DevOps
If you’re getting into DevOps, don’t jump straight into Kubernetes. I see this mistake all the time. First, get comfortable with: • Linux • Networking • Git • Docker • One cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP) A lot of people say, “DevOps is too hard.” Most of...