Kubernetes 1.34 in Practice: Five Changes You Can Adopt Now
Kubernetes 1.34 landed on August 27, 2025, and the first patch (1.34.1) followed on September 9. The release includes 58 enhancements, with 23 graduating to stable—plenty of practical wins for...
What the CrowdStrike “Channel File 291” Outage Teaches Us About Incident Response Maturity
When an update to security software bricks millions of Windows machines in minutes, incident response maturity gets tested in public. That’s what happened on July 19, when a CrowdStrike content...
Let AI Do the Night Shift: Practical Ways Cloud Agents Slash Ops Toil
If your team’s on-call sounds like a stuck record—“CPU spike → Slack ping → check logs → restart service → write postmortem”—you’re not alone. The good news: cloud platforms and...
Kubernetes: Test your knowledge!
This set of 14 questions will test your knowledge from the basics of cluster components and workloads, all the way up to advanced topics like scheduling, autoscaling, and persistent storage....
Your Daily Prometheus Operations Cheat Sheet
Prometheus is like that friend who remembers everything, every sneeze of your app, every spike, every drop. The trick is knowing how to ask it questions without making it cry....
Stress-Testing Kubernetes: Proving “Consistent Reads from Cache” Really Works
If you’ve ever stress‑tested a busy Kubernetes control plane, you know LIST calls can become the equivalent of a Friday afternoon traffic jam: everything backs up, and latency spikes right...
Zero‑Code Tracing with OpenTelemetry eBPF: From First Trace to RED Metrics You Can Trust
Observability teams have spent years wrestling with “agent spaghetti,” manual code changes, and uneven trace coverage. Over the last few months, the OpenTelemetry (OTel) community has quietly unlocked a different...
Observability: Test your knowledge!
Think you’ve got your eyes on the system? This week we’re testing your observability skills, the art of knowing what’s really happening inside your services, without guessing. From metrics to...