HAProxy just droppedUniversal Mesh, a fresh spin on service mesh design. Forget the per-service sidecars - this model plants high-speed gateways at the network edges instead. Result? Lighter by 30–50% on resources, easier to upgrade, and way less hassle routing traffic across Kubernetes, VMs, and cl.. read more  

TheIngress NGINX projectis riding off into the sunset by March 2026. Time to pick a new horse. One strong contender: theHAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. It matches feature-for-feature, comes with deeper observability, and reloads configs without taking your cluster offline. HAProxy’s not stopp.. read more  

Most cloud-native tools obsess over clusters. Not developers. That means poor support for things like promoting code between environments or deploying by feature - not just by repo. The author pushes for a better way: platforms that hide the Kubernetes mess and tame CI/CD. Think feature-driven deplo.. read more  

Hexmos droppedudwall, a declarative firewall manager that finally makesUFWandDockerplay nice. Docker’s notorious for bulldozing past UFW rules via iptables. udwall patches that hole. It syncs rules across both, auto-reconciles changes, backs up configs, and plugs cleanly intoAnsible. No more duct-ta.. read more  

Amazon Prime Video ditched its pricey microservices maze and rebuilt as asingle-process monolith, cutting ops costs by 90%. No big press release. Just results. Same move from Twilio Segment. And Shopify. Both pulled their tangled systems back intomodular monoliths- cleaner, faster, easier to test, a.. read more  

Stripped down and sharp, the blog lays out Kubernetes config best practices: keep YAML manifests in version control, use Deployments (not raw Pods), and label like you mean it - semantically, not just alphabet soup. It digs into sneaky pain points too, like how YAML mangles booleans (yes≠true), and .. read more  

Grafana’s been busy clearing the shelves.Grafana Agent,Agent Flow, andOnCall? All deprecated. The replacement:Grafana Alloy- a one-stop observability agent that handles logs, metrics, traces, and OTEL without flinching. Meanwhile,Mimir 3.0ships with a Kafka-powered ingestion pipeline. More scalabili.. read more  

KIEMPossible is a new open-source tool for Kubernetes entitlement cleanup. It maps out who has access to what - roles, entities, permissions - and shows how those are actually used across your clusters. Think of it as a permission microscope for AKS, EKS, GKE, and even the DIY K8s crowd. It breaks d.. read more  

Senior Automation Engineer built an offline RAG system for technical documents using Ollama, Llama 3, and ChromaDB in a Dockerized microservices architecture. The system enables efficient retrieval and generation of information from PDFs with a streamlined UI. The deployment package, including compl.. read more  

A new mock-based framework lets QA and automation folks stress-test LLM outputs - no API calls, no surprise charges. It runs entirely local, usingpytest fixtures, structured test flows, and JSON schema checks to keep things tight. Test logic stays modular. Cross-validation’s baked in. And if you nee.. read more