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This post discusses the impact of AI on the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) by drawing parallels to historical research on automation. It highlights the risk of deskilling and never-skilling for SREs who heavily rely on AI tools for incident response. The post also suggests potential appro.. read more
NGINX ships an open-sourceAgentic ObservabilityJS module. It parsesMCPtraffic and extracts tool names, error statuses, and client/server identities. The module uses nativeOpenTelemetryto export spans. A Docker Compose reference wires upOTel collector,Prometheus, andGrafanafor realtime throughput, la.. read more
Amazon RDS costs are not fixed - they vary based on configuration and usage. Making informed configuration and governance decisions is key to optimizing costs. Graviton instances offer better price-performance for common databases, while storage costs can be reduced by decoupling performance from ca.. read more
This paper from 2008 proposes a shared-disk design over Amazon S3 for cloud-native databases, separating storage from compute. Clients write redo logs to Amazon SQS instead of directly to S3 to hide latency. The paper presents a blueprint for serverless databases before the term existed... read more
Have to manage Kubernetes in production but don’t feel confident about its many moving parts, complex architecture, and configurations? Here’s a selection of technical guides from experienced engineers for Kubernetes beginners looking to master this orchestration tool for running containerised apps efficiently and reliably.
A practical breakdown of the most common Spring Boot performance bottlenecks — and how we optimized our API from 3 seconds to 200 ms.
Microsoft's Project Silica encodes data in borosilicate glass using femtosecond lasers, offering long-term storage for up to 10,000 years. This method overcomes traditional storage limitations and is cost-effective, though write speed remains a challenge. The research phase is complete, but no product release has been announced.
California's Digital Age Assurance Act mandates operating systems to share users' age data with app developers via a real-time API by 2027. The law faces criticism for depending on self-reported ages, potentially affecting its efficacy.
