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Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open
In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...
The GitOps Plateau – Have We Stopped Innovating?
GitOps adoption is steady but innovation has slowed. AI-native GitOps could be the breakthrough that makes Kubernetes delivery smarter, safer, and scalable ...
Alan Shimel | | AI-native GitOps, ArgoCD GitOps, event-driven GitOps, Flux GitOps, GitOps and AI, GitOps automation, GitOps for multi-cloud, GitOps future, GitOps innovation, GitOps plateau, GitOps platform engineering, GitOps reconciliation, Kubernetes delivery, Kubernetes YAML automation, policy-as-code GitOps
CNCF Elevates Platform for Managing Bare Metal Servers Running Kubernetes
CNCF elevates Metal3.io to incubation, advancing open-source automation for managing Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure ...
Mike Vizard | | AI workloads bare metal, Baremetal Operator BMO, cloud-native infrastructure automation, Cluster API Provider Metal3 CAPM3, CNCF incubation project, CNCF open source projects, Ericsson Metal3, Ironic framework, Kubernetes automation, Kubernetes bare metal, Kubernetes infrastructure management, Kubernetes on bare metal, Kubernetes operators, Metal3.io, Red Hat Metal3
Why Dapr is the Productivity Boost Every Cloud-Native Team Needs
A new CNCF survey shows 96% of developers using Dapr report faster development cycles, with many citing 30%+ productivity gains. Adoption of the open-source runtime is accelerating as enterprises expand AI-driven applications, ...
Arrival of Kubernetes 1.34 Simplifies Raft of Management Challenges
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today released an update to the platform that adds and revises application programming interfaces (APIs) to resolve a range of performance, management and cybersecurity challenges ...
GitOps Under Fire: Resilience Lessons from GitProtect’s Mid-Year 2025 Incident Report
GitOps may power cloud-native delivery, but rising outages and breaches across GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Azure DevOps expose just how fragile today’s pipelines really are ...
Alan Shimel | | Azure DevOps pipelines, Bitbucket reliability, CI/CD disruption, cloud-native delivery, DevOps platform outages, GitHub incidents, GitLab breach, GitOps dependencies, GitOps resilience, GitOps security, GitProtect report 2025, internal developer platforms, Jira downtime, Kubernetes GitOps, platform engineering, resilience engineering, self-healing infrastructure, SRE practices, supply chain stability, zero-trust DevOps
Kubernetes Has Become Boring — That’s a Good Thing
Nearly 10 years on, Kubernetes has become the invisible backbone of cloud-native infrastructure—stable, trusted and still quietly evolving ...
Broadcom Advances VMware Tanzu with AI, Data Intelligence and App Modernization Tools
Broadcom is expanding VMware Tanzu with new AI, data intelligence, and modernization tools to simplify cloud-native application development and operations ...
Service Mesh at a Crossroads: Istio’s Graduation and the Road Ahead
It wasn’t that long ago that service mesh was the shiny new toy of the cloud-native stack. For many platform teams, Istio, Linkerd, Consul Connect, or Kuma promised to solve some of ...
Why Cloud-Native Contact Centers Are Winning the Customer Loyalty Battle
In today’s experience-first economy, customer loyalty is no longer a product of great service alone—it’s the outcome of seamless, proactive, and personalized engagement across channels. As expectations evolve, cloud-native contact centers have ...

