The writer, a software engineer with 10 years of experience, expresses frustration with the current job market, citing difficulties in navigating filters like Coderpad, hackerrank, and AI proctored exams. They feel disadvantaged by these filters and feel like companies are making it more difficult t.. read more  

Qwen 3.6 is a local model that stands out as a general intelligence, offered in two variants: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B and Qwen 3.6 27B. Qwen 3.6 27B has been praised for punching above its weight, making it worth the heat it generates. Running Qwen 3.6 locally with llama.cpp is easier than ever, allowing f.. read more  

Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Micron face a lawsuit in the US over alleged memory price fixing. Plaintiffs claim the companies colluded on supply and pricing for DRAM, leading to price increases of about 700% in the past four years. The lawsuit, filed by individual consumers and small businesse.. read more  

The process of creating Linux drivers for drawing tablets can be challenging due to branding issues in the open-source infrastructure. Collaboration from tablet brands is essential for improving support, as demonstrated in recent interactions with Gaomon... read more  

Running iptables -L on a node in a 500-node cluster can cause the terminal to freeze due to kube-proxy writing 40,000–60,000 rules across various chains. Conntrack tracks each flow with a global spinlock, becoming a bottleneck past 80,000 connections per second. Cilium replaces this path entirely by.. read more  

In March, Willem Berroubache gave a talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, addressing questions about building agentic AI on cloud native foundations. The internal security-operations platform at Orange Innovation utilizes A2A protocol for inter-agent coordination, MCP for enviro.. read more  

Kepler maintainers rewrote Kepler to remove eBPF. They replaced privileged kernel tracing with read-only Linux process data to attribute energy use to Kubernetes workloads... read more  

Kubernetes maintainers accept AI-assisted contributions when contributors disclose AI use, understand the code, and own the change. Maintainers test AI review tools to help them sort issues and pull requests... read more  

A blog post by Mesut Oezdil, a DevOps Engineer from Buoyant, discusses how Linkerd's proxy provides network layer metrics with zero changes to application code. The post showcases the overlap and differences between mesh-derived metrics and OpenTelemetry metrics, along with the integration pattern t.. read more  

Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It lets platform t.. read more