Contributed Content
The Telemetry Debt Crisis: Why Cloud-Native Teams are Optimizing the Wrong Metric
Telemetry debt is overwhelming engineering teams with noisy alerts, unused dashboards and rising observability costs. Here’s how to identify, reduce and prevent it ...
David Iyanu Jonathan | | adaptive sampling, AI observability, alert fatigue, dashboard sprawl, eBPF observability, FinOps, incident response, log management, metric cardinality, MTTR, observability as code, observability costs, observability maturity, observability strategy, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, telemetry governance, telemetry ROI, trace data
A Green Kubernetes Deployment Does Not Mean a Healthy Application
The deployment finishes, kubectl rollout status reports success, and every pod shows Running and Ready. For most teams, that is the moment the release is considered done. Then a customer transaction fails ...
Container Runtime Security in Kubernetes: What Teams Overlook
Kubernetes security conversations tend to center on the things that happen on the left-hand side of the process. Scanning images, hardening Dockerfiles, and working with registry access controls all tend to frontload ...
Beyond the Model: Why AI Agent Orchestration Requires Cloud-Native Engineering
AI agent orchestration is a distributed systems challenge. Cloud-native engineering provides the resilience, observability, security and scalability needed for production AI ...
Nithiya Dharshini | | agent communication, agentic AI infrastructure, AI agent orchestration, AI governance, AI infrastructure, AI observability, AI scalability, AI security, AI workflow monitoring, AI workload management, automated scaling, cloud native AI, cloud-native engineering, containerized AI services, distributed AI systems, distributed tracing, enterprise AI agents, event-driven architecture, GitOps, Kubernetes for AI, multi-agent systems, platform engineering, production AI systems, resilient AI systems
Hardening the Core: Container Validation and Malicious Package Defense
Docker images are becoming a major software supply chain risk. Learn why scanning alone is not enough and how layered security can protect containers from build to runtime ...
Sean Roth | | CI/CD security, cloud native security, container image vulnerabilities, container isolation, container registries, container runtime security, container security, container vulnerability scanning, dependency security, DevSecOps, Docker hardening, Docker image security, image lifecycle security, image validation, malicious container images, malicious packages, minimal base images, non-root containers, runtime protection, SBOM, secure build practices, secure Docker images, software supply chain security, zero-day threats
Your Model Works in the Notebook and Breaks in the Cluster
A model working in a notebook gives you a particular kind of confidence. The metrics look good, the code runs top to bottom, the researcher demos it, leadership nods, and everyone agrees ...
Inside the Packet: How Kubernetes Networking Actually Works at L3/L4
Stop guessing why your Pods can't communicate. This deep dive strips away the magic of Kubernetes networking, providing a layer-by-layer breakdown of the dataplane using real packet captures, kernel data structures and ...
Building a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) for Cloud-Native Teams
As cloud-native architectures continue to redefine how applications are built and deployed, security must evolve alongside them. Often bolted on at the end of development, traditional approaches are no longer sufficient in ...
What Preparing for CKS Taught Me About Kubernetes Security
Preparing for CKS reinforced that Kubernetes security is not about a single tool or feature. It is about good defaults, clear boundaries and consistent operational practices ...
What Test Automation Tools Need to Handle When AI is Generating Cloud-Native Code at Scale
AI coding assistants change what test automation tools need to handle in cloud-native environments. Explore where the gaps concentrate and what to address ...

