platform engineering
Ten Years of the Operator Pattern: What We Got Right, What We’d Change
CoreOS introduced the operator pattern in November 2016, and nearly a decade later operators are everywhere. Almost every CNCF graduated project ships one, every database vendor offers one, and every platform team ...
The Inference Bottleneck: Architecting Kubernetes Autoscaling for Production LLMs
Generative AI (GenAI) is moving into production, but native Kubernetes autoscaling is fundamentally broken for large language model (LLM) inference ...
Kubernetes in Production: Where Platform Decisions Break Down
Kubernetes is often described as “free,” but that assumption falls apart in production. What looks like a complete platform is only a foundation. Everything required to run real workloads reliably sits outside ...
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 ...
Build Cost Awareness Into Your Kubernetes IDP
How platform teams can make cost efficiency a natural outcome of following the golden path — not a billing surprise discovered three weeks after deployment ...
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 ...
Pod Requests Are the Input to Every Kubernetes Cost Control Loop
Pod CPU and memory requests drive Kubernetes scheduling, autoscaling and cost allocation. Learn why rightsizing them improves cost control ...
What to Expect From Kubernetes 1.36
Kubernetes 1.36 launches April 22, 2026, marking a major shift in networking as Ingress-Nginx retires in favor of the more scalable Gateway API. Key updates include bolstered Linux User Namespaces for better ...
Why Kubernetes Reliability Is Now a Machine-Speed Problem
Kubernetes incidents now unfold at machine speed. AI-driven systems help SRE teams identify root causes faster ...
Software Supply Chain Security: Why 99% of Your Container is Mystery Code
In a recent talk, the disparity between developers and platform engineers in container security was highlighted, revealing how a single line of code can pull in thousands of vulnerabilities. This article discusses ...
