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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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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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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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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

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s end-to-end machine learning and generative AI platform, designed to help teams build, deploy, and operate AI systems reliably at scale. It unifies data preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring into a single managed environment, reducing operational complexity while supporting advanced AI workloads.

Vertex AI supports both custom models and foundation models, including Google’s Gemini model family. It enables organizations to fine-tune models, run large-scale inference, orchestrate agentic workflows, and integrate AI into production systems with strong security, governance, and observability controls.

The platform includes tools for AutoML, custom training with TensorFlow and PyTorch, managed pipelines, feature stores, vector search, and online and batch prediction. For generative AI use cases, Vertex AI provides APIs for text, image, code, multimodal generation, embeddings, and agent-based systems, including support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.

Built for enterprise environments, Vertex AI integrates deeply with Google Cloud services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, IAM, and VPC, enabling secure data access and compliance. It is widely used across industries like finance, healthcare, retail, and science for applications ranging from recommendation systems and forecasting to autonomous research agents and AI-powered products.