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Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack

Malicious npm packages just leveled up: this one dropped a self-spreading worm that hijacks repos and leaks secrets the moment it lands. It abuses `postinstall` scripts to run TruffleHog and swipe tokens straight from your codebase. Then it uses GitHub Actions to exfiltrate the loot and auto-publis.. read more  

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Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

A teardown of Argo CD anti-patterns calls out 28 common misfires—stuff like skipping Git for Application CRDs or stuffing Helm/Kustomize config right into Argo CD manifests. Yikes. It pushes for a cleaner setup: use **ApplicationSets** instead of rolling your own YAML, turn on **auto-sync/self-heal.. read more  

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Demystifying Log Retention in Azure

Azure logs come in three flavors: **Activity Logs**, **Diagnostic Logs**, and **Log Analytics**. Each with its own rules for retention and billing. The catch? Those differences aren’t quirks—they’re baked in... read more  

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Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer

DigitalOcean just dropped **Organizations**—a real upgrade for anyone juggling multiple Teams. Think one top-level account to rule them all: centralized user control, one invoice to track, and org-wide settings for taxes, credits, and permissions... read more  

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Observability for the Invisible: Tracing Message Drops in Kafka Pipelines

When an event drops silently in a distributed system, it is not a bug, it is an architectural blind spot. Detect, debug, and prevent message loss in Kafka-based streaming pipelines using tools like OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Jaeger, and dead-letter queues. Make sure observability gaps in event strea.. read more  

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How FinOps Drives Value for Every Engineering Dollar

Duolingo’s FinOps crew didn’t just track cloud costs—they wired up sharp, automated observability across 100+ microservices. Real-time alerts now catch AI and infra spend spikes before they torch the budget. They sliced TTS costs by 40% with in-memory caching. Dumped pricey CloudWatch metrics for P.. read more  

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What are Error Budgets? A Guide to Managing Reliability

OneUptime shows how to put **error budgets** to work—keeping feature velocity in check without tanking reliability. The goal: ship fast, stay within SLOs. They do it by tracking **burn rates**, syncing across teams, and tuning SLOs to match how users actually use the product. Less guesswork, more s.. read more  

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v1.34: Pod Level Resources Graduated to Beta

Kubernetes v1.34 bumps **Pod Level Resources** to Beta—and flips them on by default. Now you can set CPU, memory, and hugepages limits for the whole Pod, not just per container. That means smoother scheduling, stricter resource caps, and less sidecar thrashing. **Why it matters:** This shifts Kuber.. read more  

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Kubernetes on Edge Day

The inaugural Edge Day launched as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in 2022, focusing on edge computing and the evolution from centralized data centers to the network edge. The event brings together academic research, enterprise use cases, and insights from the Kubernetes community... read more  

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Fluentd to Fluent Bit: A Migration Guide

Fluent Bit just edged out Fluentd as the CNCF’s go-to log processor. Why? It's fast—up to 40× faster. Built in C. Embedded plugins. Native OpenTelemetry. Full observability baked in. It handles routing, schema changes, and telemetry across containers and edge systems without flinching. No Ruby here.. read more  

Fluentd to Fluent Bit: A Migration Guide
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