A passing test in a monolith traditionally offered a relatively straightforward signal. The code behaved as expected under the conditions tested. The function produced the expected output. The integration with the database worked. The deployment was probably safe within those limits. A passing test in a cloud-native system can offer
SUSE this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 conference made a bevy of updates to its tools and frameworks for managing Kubernetes clusters, including a set of specialized artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are invoked via a natural language AI assistant dubbed Liz that the company added
Cloud-native fraud detection misses coordinated attacks when services operate in isolation. Learn how cross-service correlation exposes fraud without compromising privacy.
Cloud-native infrastructure has changed the way organizations think about resilience. Kubernetes can restart failed containers, replace pods, schedule workloads on healthy nodes and help applications recover from failures that once required manual intervention. That is real progress. But there is a difference between keeping workloads running and keeping infrastructure recoverable.
Manually registering Jenkins build agents becomes increasingly inefficient as CI/CD infrastructure grows. Combining Docker Swarm with the Jenkins Swarm Plugin allows workers to register automatically and makes scaling build capacity as simple as changing replica counts. But automation introduces trade-offs involving shared credentials, workload isolation and scaling down active builds. A practical implementation demonstrates how WebSocket connections, Docker secrets and CI smoke tests can improve the setup while exposing important security limitations. [...]
Engineering autonomy is essential to high-performing teams, but independence can quietly become isolation. When teams make decisions without surfacing dependencies or seeking expertise, organizations risk duplicated effort, missed requirements and costly rework. Strong engineering leadership means creating the conditions for collaboration through clear boundaries, better incentives, psychological safety and easy access to knowledge. The goal isn't less autonomy — it's ownership that doesn't come at the expense of teamwork. [...]
Migrating from EC2 self-hosted GitHub Actions runners to GitHub-hosted runners requires infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping and team coordination. [...]
