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AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS

AWS Backup just added support forAmazon EKS. Now you can back up cluster state and persistent volumes, no agents, no third-party hacks. It handles scheduling, retention, and immutability out of the box. Restore full clusters or drill down to specific components, even across Regions and accounts... read more

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ConfigHub: Why Your Internal Developer Platform Needs It

See why GitOps often feels like a sprawl of configs, discover how to manage Configuration as Data for your Kubernetes platform, and learn how ConfigHub can help... read more

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design

Amazon EKS just went full Fort Knox. It now runs on azero operator accessmodel - meaning even AWS can’t peek inside your Kubernetes control or data plane. The setup leans on theNitro System’s confidential compute,guarded APIs, andmulti-party approval pipelines. NCC Group also kicked the tires and ga.. read more

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KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project

KServe is upgrading.The CNCF pulled it into incubation, backing it astheKubernetes-native way to serve both generative and predictive AI. Translation: it’s not a side project anymore - it’s core infra. Version 0.15 steps up with tighter integrations across the stack:vLLM,Envoy Gateway,llm-d,Knative,.. read more

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Using Komodo to Run Docker Commands from a Web Interface

Komodo drops a slick browser-based UI for wrangling Docker - containers, images, networks, and Compose stacks - through a real-time visual dashboard. Think native Docker meets one-click redeploys, host curation via agents, and reusable container configs that don’t make you hate YAML... read more

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Streamline Complex AI Inference on Kubernetes with NVIDIA Grove

NVIDIA releasedGrove, a Kubernetes API baked intoDynamo, to wrangle the chaos of modern AI inference. It pulls apart your big, messy model into clean, discrete chunks - prefill, decode, routing - and runs them like a single, orchestrated act. The trick?Custom hierarchical resources. They let Grove h.. read more

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Prepare for the Kubernetes Administrator Certification and Pass

A tight 2-hour YouTube course built for theCKA examgrind. It's all real-world tasks: cluster setup, upgrades, troubleshooting. No fluff, just shell commands and Kubernetes in action. It walks through the gritty bits:etcdbackup and restore, node affinity, tolerations, and how to set upIngresslike som.. read more

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The 1 Billion Token Challenge: Finding the Perfect Pre-training Mix

Researchers squeezed GPT-2-class performance out of a model trained on just1 billion tokens- 10× less data - by dialing in a sharp dataset mix:50% finePDFs, 30% DCLM-baseline, 20% FineWeb-Edu. Static mixing beat curriculum strategies. No catastrophic forgetting. No overfitting. And it hit90%+of GPT-.. read more

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Jensen Huang's Stark Warning: China's 1 Million AI Workers vs America's 20,000

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in some leaked comments, didn’t mince words: U.S. export bans aren’t hobbling China’s AI game - they’re fueling it. He pointed to Huawei’s 910C chip edging close to H100 territory, a forecast putting China ahead in AI compute by 2027, and a fast-growing local chip industry n.. read more

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Context Management in Amp

Amp stretches the context window into something more useful. It pulls in system prompts, tool info, runtime metadata, even AGENTS.md files - fuel for agentic behavior. It gives devs serious control: edit messages, fork threads, drop in files with @mentions, hand off conversations, or link threads to.. read more

Flask is an open-source web framework written in Python and created by Armin Ronacher in 2010. It is known as a microframework, not because it is weak or incomplete, but because it provides only the essential building blocks for developing web applications. Its core focuses on handling HTTP requests, defining routes, and rendering templates, while leaving decisions about databases, authentication, form handling, and other components to the developer. This minimalistic design makes Flask lightweight, flexible, and easy to learn, but also powerful enough to support complex systems when extended with the right tools.

At the heart of Flask are two libraries: Werkzeug, which is a WSGI utility library that handles the low-level details of communication between web servers and applications, and Jinja2, a templating engine that allows developers to write dynamic HTML pages with embedded Python logic. By combining these two, Flask provides a clean and pythonic way to create web applications without imposing strict architectural patterns.

One of the defining characteristics of Flask is its explicitness. Unlike larger frameworks such as Django, Flask does not try to hide complexity behind layers of abstraction or dictate how a project should be structured. Instead, it gives developers complete control over how they organize their code and which tools they integrate. This explicit nature makes applications easier to reason about and gives teams the freedom to design solutions that match their exact needs. At the same time, Flask benefits from a vast ecosystem of extensions contributed by the community. These extensions cover areas such as database integration through SQLAlchemy, user session and authentication management, form validation with CSRF protection, and database migration handling. This modular approach means a developer can start with a very simple application and gradually add only the pieces they require, avoiding the overhead of unused components.

Flask is also widely appreciated for its simplicity and approachability. Many developers write their first web application in Flask because the learning curve is gentle, the documentation is clear, and the framework itself avoids unnecessary complexity. It is particularly well suited for building prototypes, REST APIs, microservices, or small to medium-sized web applications. At the same time, production-grade deployments are supported by running Flask applications on WSGI servers such as Gunicorn or uWSGI, since the development server included with Flask is intended only for testing and debugging.

The strengths of Flask lie in its minimalism, flexibility, and extensibility. It gives developers the freedom to assemble their application architecture, choose their own libraries, and maintain tight control over how things work under the hood. This is attractive to experienced engineers who dislike being boxed in by heavy frameworks. However, the same freedom can become a limitation. Flask does not include features like an ORM, admin interface, or built-in authentication system, which means teams working on very large applications must take on more responsibility for enforcing patterns and maintaining consistency. In situations where a project requires an opinionated, all-in-one solution, Django or another full-stack framework may be a better fit.

In practice, Flask has grown far beyond its initial positioning as a lightweight tool. It has been used by startups for rapid prototypes and by large companies for production systems. Its design philosophy—keep the core simple, make extensions easy, and let developers decide—continues to attract both beginners and professionals. This balance between simplicity and power has made Flask one of the most enduring and widely used Python web frameworks.

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