Cloud-Native Development
GKE Is Built on Google’s Kubernetes Expertise – So Why is it Still Underutilized?
Google didn’t just adopt Kubernetes. Google created it. More importantly, Google has been able to dogfood Kubernetes at enormous scale for years, giving GKE the benefit of real-world experience from one of ...
EKS Powers the Cloud’s Largest Kubernetes Fleets – So Why Is It Still Running Mostly Idle?
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) remains the primary foundation for enterprise production Kubernetes, hosting massive mission-critical workloads across the globe. AWS pioneered modern cloud infrastructure twenty years ago, and today EKS provides ...
Don’t Hand Your AI Agent the Keys: MCP vs. Context Layers
AI-enabling your systems is easy if you believe the brochures in your inbox. Wrap the system you already have in an MCP server, point a model at it, done. By the end ...
Your ML Platform Isn’t Kubernetes-Native Just Because It Runs on Kubernetes
The real transformation begins when the ML lifecycle becomes declarative, observable, and recoverable. As Vara Bonthu described in a recent CNCF article, the great migration of AI workloads to Kubernetes is well ...
Kubernetes For AI: CIQ Packages The Moving Parts Into One Binary
CIQ is taking aim at Kubernetes complexity with Stratum Kubernetes Engine (SKE), a free, open source, single-binary platform designed to simplify cluster deployment, upgrades and AI-driven operations without vendor lock-in ...
Mirantis Adds Service to Facilitate Migrations Off VMware Platforms
Mirantis this week added a service through which it will migrate workloads running on instances of VMware to Kubernetes clusters that run on top of the OpenStack cloud computing framework. Cristian Klein, ...
One Hub, 34 Clusters: Lessons From a GitOps Control Plane at Scale
On Oct. 6, Red Hat published a walkthrough of Argo CD ApplicationSets provisioning hosted control planes straight from Git. A day later, GitHub had an outage that hit Actions, Git operations and ...
AI Didn’t Break Kubernetes Optimization. GPUs Did.
The industry is buzzing about how AI agents have driven up Kubernetes costs. But most agents run like any other service, and the usual tools like right-sizing, bin packing and autoscaling still ...
How Kubernetes Workload Identity Actually Works at the Protocol Layer
Learn how Kubernetes workload identity uses ServiceAccounts, JWTs, OIDC federation and short-lived tokens to secure cloud-native applications ...
Why Cloud-Native Software Testing Requires Rethinking What a Passing Test Actually Means
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 ...
