The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know
AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with minimal effort and expertise. It is also now…
The Challenge: Fragmented tooling and compliance risk at scale The client’s platform engineering team managed a sprawling cloud-native estate with over 1,000 GitLab projects, hundreds of Kubernetes workloads, Kafka streams, Databricks and Spark jobs, and Aurora…
Welcome llm-d to the CNCF: Evolving Kubernetes into SOTA AI infrastructure
We are thrilled to announce that llm-d has officially been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project! As generative AI transitions from research labs to production environments, platform engineering teams are facing a…
Announcing a Kotlin Multiplatform API and SDK for OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry has become the de facto standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data across cloud native systems. Its success has been driven by strong community collaboration, a clear specification, and a growing ecosystem of language-specific SDKs…
CNCF Unveils KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 Schedule
Third annual India event to spotlight AI, observability, platform engineering and more MUMBAI, India, 11 March, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the conference…
Making Harbor production-ready: Essential considerations for deployment
Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on…
Kyverno 1.17 is a landmark release that marks the stabilization of our next-generation Common Expression Language (CEL) policy engine. While 1.16 introduced the “CEL-first” vision in beta, 1.17 promotes these capabilities to v1, offering a high-performance,…
OpenTelemetry Collector vs agent: How to choose the right telemetry approach
As cloud-native architectures continue to mature, observability has become a foundational requirement rather than an optional add-on. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry continues to grow its contributor base and remains the second highest…
Reclaiming underutilized GPUs in Kubernetes using scheduler plugins
The problem nobody talks about GPUs are expensive; and yours are probably sitting idle right now. High-end GPUs (for example, NVIDIA A100-class devices) can cost $10,000+, and in a Kubernetes cluster running AI workloads, you might…
How to build a cost-effective observability platform with OpenTelemetry
The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support…