Challenge For more than ten years, HDFC Bank’s payments infrastructure reliably supported the organization’s growing digital banking ecosystem. However, the rapid acceleration of digital payment adoption and the emergence of real-time financial services created new requirements…
How a vector database platform eliminated manual operations and cut costs by 40% The organization operated their infrastructure with manual processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As the platform scaled to support enterprise AI/ML workloads, the…
Why your agent needs access to your documentation
What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their deployment,…
The 4-body problem of SRE: Why autonomous operations depend on context
What a room full of senior SREs confirmed about the trust gap, and where the actual work begins I spent a day last week at an event in Bengaluru asking a room full of senior SREs,…
Slam26 Spring Transparency Report
Setting the stage for the Spring 2026 Security Slam The CNCF Security Slam has continuously evolved to meet the community’s need for robust software supply chain security. In 2022 and 2023, the event functioned as highly…
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the…
Building Jaeger’s ClickHouse backend: 8.6× compression on 10 million spans
As someone who’s been maintaining Jaeger, I’ve watched users request ClickHouse support consistently over the past few years. With Jaeger v2.18.0, we’ve finally delivered it. What excites me most isn’t just that ClickHouse is available—it’s that its architecture is…
Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
As system architectures grow increasingly complex, the cloud-native community faces a subtle but pressing challenge: we are drowning in our own telemetry data. It is easier than ever to instrument an application and collect signals, but…
Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits
In recent years, Arm64 has been taking the cloud service provider world by storm. Recent reports indicate that, as of the end of 2025, over 50% of new instances on AWS and over 33% on Azure…
Dynamic configuration for cloud native Swift services
Modern Swift services increasingly run alongside the same cloud native infrastructure stacks that power much of today’s Kubernetes ecosystem — including ConfigMaps, containerized workloads, declarative deployments, and service lifecycle management. Projects such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry…