New scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together. 

An AI factory is not just a model or a cluster. It is a pool of GPUs that many teams draw from at once: one team fine-tuning, another serving inference, a third running evaluations, all on...

Clear patterns have emerged from governance reviews across 72 CNCF projects, distinguishing between what the CNCF requires at each maturity level versus what the data recommends for long-term project health. This post captures those patterns as...

It’s no secret that developers are increasingly being asked to shift left. It seems there’s always something new to shift left on. And now developers are being asked to shift left on observability. This means that...

As a recovering VMware architect, it took me a little while to grasp Kubernetes. And I noticed I’m not alone in this.. From developers on our own team who need to get fluent in Kubernetes fast...

The problem: Humans shouldn’t be correlation engines At Atlassian’s scale, hundreds of interconnected microservices distributed across multiple regions mean a production incident generates an overwhelming volume of telemetry. The problem is that finding the causal factor...

Slow SQL queries degrade user experience, cause cascading failures, and turn simple operations into production incidents. The traditional fix? Collect more telemetry. But more telemetry means more things to look at, not necessarily more understanding. Instead...

Get ready to connect, learn, and innovate right in your backyard. Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) are officially kicking off for H1! Supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), these community-organized events bring open source adopters...

A lesson from 1917 In January 1917, Germany sent a secret telegram. It went to Mexico. The offer: join the war against the United States, and you can have Texas, Arizona and New Mexico back. The...

Mark Mandel, founder of the Agones project, explains why game companies pivoted to container orchestration and how industry upheaval is reshaping the build-or-buy decision.