A former Azure Core engineer recounts arriving on his first day to find a 122-person org seriously planning to port Windows-based VM management agents - 173 of them, which nobody could fully explain - onto a tiny, low-power ARM chip running Linux. The stack was already failing to scale on server-gra.. read more  

At Google Cloud, the llm-d project has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project. This collaboration with industry leaders like Red Hat, IBM Research, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA aims to provide a framework for any model, accelerator, or cloud. The introduction of GKE Inf.. read more  

Kubernetes v1.36, coming inApril 2026, will feature removals and deprecations, with enhancements that include retirement of the Ingress NGINX project and thedeprecation of .spec.externalIPs in Service.Additionally, the release will remove the gitRepo volume driver and introduce enhancements like fas.. read more  

Docker Offload is a managed cloud service that moves the container engine to Docker’s secure cloud, allowing developers to run Docker from any environment without changing their workflows. With Docker Offload, developers can keep using the same commands and workflows they are accustomed to in Docker.. read more  

Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer VMware in late 2023 brought about significant price increases and a shift towards subscription-based licensing. The company aims to establish VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the foundation for enterprise workloads gravitating towards priv.. read more  

Over a quarterof production code is now AI-authored, with agents boosting pull requests by 60% when allowed to run autonomously in YOLO mode. Docker Sandboxes provide a safe boundary for agents, enabling fully autonomous operation without risking your machine or data... read more  

Qwen3.6-Plus, the latest release following Qwen3.5 series, offers enhanced agentic coding capabilities and sharper multimodal reasoning. The model excels in frontend web development and complex problem-solving, setting a new standard in the developer ecosystem. Qwen3.6-Plus is available via Alibaba .. read more  

Built from Gemini 3 research and technology, Gemma 4 offers maximum compute and memory efficiency for mobile and IoT devices. Develop autonomous agents, multimodal applications, and multilingual experiences with Gemma 4's unprecedented intelligence-per-parameter... read more  

Context engineering has evolved in the AI engineering field since mid-2025 with the introduction of patterns for managing context effectively. These patterns include progressive disclosure, compression, routing, retrieval strategies, and tool management, each addressing a different dimension of the .. read more  

Cloudflare data shows that 32% of network traffic originates from automated traffic, including AI assistants fetching data for responses. AI bots often issue high-volume requests and access rarely visited content, impacting cache efficiency. Cloudflare researchers propose AI-aware caching algorithms.. read more