observability
Encoding Video on Kubernetes: What Running Media Pipelines on K8s Actually Takes
Learn how to run reliable FFmpeg and GStreamer live encoding on Kubernetes using smarter scheduling, media-aware scaling and deadline-based monitoring ...
Running Production With Zero Stored Logs
I run a Kubernetes platform without a centralized log archive. When I say that, people often imagine something else: short-term retention, logs with sensitive information removed, or something similar. Let me explain ...
Six Production Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a strong runtime foundation, but production AI also needs controls for slow startup, uneven demand, streaming connections, credentials, telemetry and rollback. A prototype can look healthy with one developer, one ...
Cloud Observability Is More Than a Cloud-Native Story
Cloud-native systems have come to define much of the public conversation about observability. Discussions often begin with Kubernetes, microservices, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing. But enterprise teams are responsible for a much wider ...
Your Service Is Healthy, but Its Data Isn’t: Rethinking Cloud-Native Health Checks
Some of the most difficult production issues do not start with a failed service. The application is running, the database is reachable, requests are completed successfully and the monitoring dashboard is green ...
Write Access Is the Easy Part: The Verification Gap in Agentic Kubernetes Remediation
Giving an AI agent the power to change a cluster is now straightforward. Confirming the change landed, did not produce unintended duplicate effects and achieved the outcome the operator actually wanted is ...
DataAgent Emerges From Stealth To Bring Autonomous Remediation to Kubernetes
DataAgent emerged from stealth today with $10 million in pre-seed funding and an agentic AI platform designed to fix production problems inside Kubernetes environments without waiting for a site reliability engineer to ...
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 ...
