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Magical systems thinking

AI now writes over **25% of Google’s** and as much as **90% of Anthropic’s** code. That’s not a trend—it’s a regime change. Still, the mess in large public systems reminds us: clever analysis isn’t enough. Complex systems don’t behave; they misbehave. When the machines are churning out code, the ..

Magical systems thinking
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%CPU Utilization Is A Lie

Stress tests on the Ryzen 9 5900X uncovered a big gap between **reported CPU utilization** and what the chip actually pushes. Around 50% on paper? Could mean close to full throttle in reality—thanks to sneaky behaviors from **SMT resource sharing** and **Turbo frequency scaling**. **Takeaway:** Raw..

%CPU Utilization Is A Lie
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Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs

**Budget Controls for AWS** just got better. The open-source tool now reins in more than just EC2. It wrangles **RDS Aurora**, **SageMaker**, and **OpenSearch** too. Under the hood, it taps **AWS Budgets**, **AWS Config**, and **custom tags** to watch spend like a hawk. Hit a budget threshold? It c..

Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs
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Best 20 Linux Commands for Daily Use in Production Servers

A fresh roundup drops20 go-to Linux commandsfor production sysadmins, dialing in on modern defaults likehtop > top,ss > netstat, andip > ifconfig. The shift? Faster tools that actually get updates. Built with systemd in mind, too. Expect the usual suspects—journalctl,rsync,crontab—all still pulling..

Best 20 Linux Commands for Daily Use in Production Servers
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SLI Evolution Stages

A new SLI evolution model lays out a maturity roadmap—from rebranded latency/error metrics to ones that actually track business impact. It replaces shallow signals and pulls in the stuff that matters: how service failures hit user goals, tasks, and bottom lines...

SLI Evolution Stages
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Fast, Secure Kubernetes with AKS Automatic

Azure dropped **AKS Automatic**, a new managed Kubernetes tier that tries to do it all—so you don’t have to. It comes with baked-in best practices: autoscaling via HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Karpenter. Automated patching. Node repair. Monitoring. All wired up by default. You still get full access to the ..

Fast, Secure Kubernetes with AKS Automatic
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v1.34: DRA Consumable Capacity

Kubernetes 1.34 rolls in **consumable capacity** for Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). That means device plugins can now carve up resources—GPU memory, NIC bandwidth, etc.—into precise slices for Pods, ResourceClaims, and namespaces. The scheduler tracks it all, so nothing spills over...

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Kubernetes Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Cluster

A new JetBrains IDE plugin throws Kubernetes security best practices straight into your deployment manifests—right where they belong. Think: checks for `runAsRoot`, privileged mode, `hostPath`, host ports, and sketchy sysctls. No hand-waving. It enforces stuff like: - Default `runAsNonRoot` - Drop ..

Kubernetes Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Cluster
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v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Kubernetes v1.34 bumps **automated recovery from botched PVC expansions** to GA. Users can now fix bad volume size requests—no admin, no drama. It cleans up unused quota, slows down retry spam, and surfaces progress with new PVC status fields...

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v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health

Kubernetes v1.34 lands with an alpha upgrade to **[KEP-4680](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/4680-add-resource-health-to-pod-status)**, pushing **Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)** into smarter territory: health-aware Pods. DRA drivers can now stream device heal..

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