Seven ways folks trip over Kubernetes - each more avoidable than the last. Top offenses: skippingresource requests/limits, forgettinghealth probes, trustingephemeral logsthat vanish when you need them. Reusing configs across dev and prod? Still a bad idea. Pushing off observability until it’s on fir..

AWS shows how to wire upArgo CDwithAWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)to automateEKS Pod Identityfor IAM roles - GitOps-style. The catch? The Pod Identity API has a lag. So they bolt on apre-deployment validation jobto wait-and-confirm that the IAM role's actually bound before app pods come online...

Nanit ditched S3’s PutObject-heavy ingest path and built a customRust-based in-memory landing zone (N3). It cut ~$500K/year in storage ops. N3 grabs short-lived video chunks straight into RAM and only spills to S3 when it has to. Ordering stays tight thanks toSQS FIFO, and fallback kicks in clean wh..

The Kubernetes Policy Working Group got busy turning good intentions into real specs. They rolled out thePolicy Reports API, dropped best-practice docs worth reading, and helped steerValidatingAdmissionPolicyandMutatingAdmissionPolicytoward GA. Their work pulled inSIG Auth,SIG Security, and anyone e..

DoubleVerify built a traffic replay tool that actually scales. It runs onPekko StreamsandPekko Cluster, pumping real production-like traffic into non-prod setups. Throttlenails the RPS with precision for functional tests.Distributed datasyncs stressful loads across cluster nodes without breaking a s..

Bare-metal Kubernetes just got a cloud-style glow-up. By wiring upMetalLBin layer2 mode with theNGINX ingress controller, the setup exposesLoadBalancer-typeservices—no cloud provider in sight. MetalLB dishes out static, LAN-routable IPs. NGINX funnels external traffic to internalClusterIPservices th..

A 10-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster built with16GB CM5 Lite modulestopped out at325 Gflops- then got lapped by an $8K x86 Framework PC cluster running4x faster. On the bright side? The Pi setup edged out in energy efficiency when pushed to thermal limits. It came with160 GB total RAM, but that didn’t h..

Generative AI is snapping the attribution chain thatcopyleft licenseslike theGNU GPLrely on. Without clear provenance, license terms get lost. Compliance? Forget it. The give-and-take that powersFOSSstops giving - or taking...

Generative recommender systems need more than just observed user behavior to make accurate recommendations. Introducing A-SFT algorithm improves alignment between pre-trained models and reward models for more effective post-training...

Amazon rolled out fine-tuning and distillation forVision LLMslike Nova Lite viaBedrockandSageMaker. Translation: better doc parsing—think messy tax forms, receipts, invoices. Developers get two tuning paths:PEFTor full fine-tune. Then choose how to ship:on-demand inference (ODI)orProvisioned Through..