observability
The Foundation Was Already Poured
Techstrong's Experts Exchange this October, Cloud Native Now: The AI Stack, and this November's KubeCon in Salt Lake City are both making the same case for cloud native and AI. The argument ...
When Your Cluster Won’t Sit Still: The Hidden Cost of Kubernetes Autonomy During Incidents
I’ve spent the better part of the last few years on the receiving end of Kubernetes pages, both as an operator and as someone building tooling for platform teams. The pattern I’ve ...
Stop Treating Your Models Like Microservices
A few years ago, it felt like Kubernetes had become the universal answer to infrastructure problems. Teams wanted resiliency? Kubernetes. Faster deployments? Kubernetes. Scalability? Kubernetes again. Eventually, the industry stopped treating cloud-native ...
Why Observability is Critical for Modern Cloud‑Native Systems
In the future, observability will be a key factor for any organization looking to succeed with the concept of cloud native architectures ...
Istio Weaves ‘Future-Ready’ Service Mesh for AI
At KubeCon + CNC 2026, Istio unveils Ambient Multicluster and the Gateway API Inference Extension to simplify AI infrastructure. Learn how sidecar-less mesh and agentgateway secure agentic workloads and boost deployment velocity ...
Why Your Kubernetes Network is Still a Black Box — And How to Fix It
Kubernetes networking failures are hard to diagnose. Learn how eBPF and Microsoft Retina provide real-time network observability across your cluster ...
Navigating the Ingress NGINX Sunset: Four Migration Strategies and How to Choose
Ingress NGINX reached end-of-life in March 2026. Explore four migration strategies—alternate controllers, forks, direct Gateway API migration, and dual-support controllers (e.g., Traefik Ingress NGINX Provider)—plus a three-phase audit→swap→modernize plan for zero-downtime transition ...
From PagerDuty to ‘Agentic Ops’: The Rise of Self-Healing Kubernetes
Explore how the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) is transforming with Agentic Ops, integrating technologies like eBPF, LLMs, and Kubernetes Operators to shift problem-solving from humans to intelligent systems ...
Building an Enterprise-Ready AKS Cluster: Architecture, Networking and Security Baselines
Running Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in enterprise environments requires more than just creating a cluster. This guide details the essential architecture, networking, security measures, and observability practices necessary for deploying robust AKS ...
Designing Reliable Data Pipelines in Cloud-Native Environments
Discover how to design reliable data pipelines in cloud-native environments, emphasizing disciplined design decisions, observability, and team ownership to ensure data integrity and system reliability amidst constant change ...
