Datadog ditched its “never fail” mindset after a March 2023 meltdown knocked out half its Kubernetes nodes and took major user features down with them. The fix? A full-stack rethink built aroundgraceful degradation. The team addeddisk-based persistence at intake,live-data prioritization,QoS-aware re.. read more  

Lorin Hochstein argues that while high-profile engineer attrition is often speculated to contribute to major outages, it is universally absent from public Root Cause Analyses (RCAs). This exclusion occurs because public RCAs aim to reassure customers by focusing on technical fixes, whereas attrition.. read more  

Agent Sandbox, a new Kubernetes primitive, was introduced at KubeCon NA 2025 to enhance AI agent management on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

AWS introduces Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances, boosting performance by 25% and enhancing scalability while reducing costs.

The development of "Arti," a Rust-based Tor implementation funded by Zcash, aims to enhance security and efficiency by addressing the limitations of the current C-based Tor.

The enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent is now available via API, enabling developers to integrate advanced research capabilities into applications, with the open-sourcing of DeepSearchQA for evaluating complex tasks.