DORA went live: turning EU financial resilience rules into policy-as-code guardrails
If your org touches European finance in any way—bank, payment processor, insurer, fintech vendor—January 17, 2025 wasn’t just another Friday. That’s the day DORA, the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act,...
Sidecarless Mesh + Gateway API: Taming Microservices Networking at Scale
Cloud-native teams love microservices until the sprawl hits: dozens of sidecars per node, YAMLs that don’t line up across ingress and mesh, and upgrades that feel like defusing fireworks. Over...
European Airports Disrupted by Collins Aerospace Cyber Attack: What Engineers Need to Know
On the morning of 20 September 2025, passengers arriving at some of Europe’s busiest airports were greeted with chaos: check-in kiosks offline, baggage drop machines frozen, and staff frantically scribbling...
Quality vs speed in the AI fast lane: when to floor it, and when to ride the brakes
We’re all feeling it: AI has turned the workday into a highway. Drafts appear in seconds. Code scaffolds itself. Slides assemble like Lego bricks. It’s thrilling (and a little terrifying)...
When Too Many Tools Become the Job: Taming Tool Sprawl and Decision Paralysis in 2025
You hop into standup and the first 15 minutes vanish debating which issue tracker to use for a one-week spike. By the time everyone agrees to “circle back,” the meeting...
User Experience Is the Reliability Metric Now
Reliability used to mean green dashboards: 99.9% uptime, low error rates, mean time to recovery going the right way. But users don’t click dashboards—they try to complete tasks. If they...
Observability in 2025: Tracing, Telemetry, and Reliability Metrics that Actually Help
If you’re standing up (or modernizing) observability this year, you’re doing it in a world where OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the lingua franca, cloud providers accept OTLP directly, and AI/LLM features...
A Sarcastics Guide to eBPF, the Ultimate Kubernetes Overlord
If you’ve been anywhere near the swirling maelstrom of cloud-native hype recently, you’ve likely been accosted by three letters: eBPF. It’s the buzzword du jour, the magic pixie dust promised...