A small team rolled back their Kubernetes move after six months in the weeds. The setup tanked productivity, bloated infra costs, and turned simple deploys into a slog. They ditched it, brought back Docker Compose, and chopped deploy time from 45 minutes to 4. That one change freed up 60+ engineerin.. read more  

Bryan Cantrill says Kubernetes didn’t just organize containers, it cracked open the cloud market. By letting teams provision infrastructure without locking into provider APIs, it broke AWS’s first-mover grip. That shift putcloud neutralityon the table, and suddenly multi-cloud wasn’t just a buzzword.. read more  

Starting 2026, Chinese companies are dominating the open AI model scene, with Qwen leading in adoption metrics. Despite the rise of new entrants like Z.ai, MiniMax, Kimi Moonshot, and others, Qwen's position seems secure. DeepSeek's large models are showing potential to compete with Qwen, but the Ch.. read more  

AWS spun up a serverless RAG-based support assistant usingAmazon BedrockandBedrock Knowledge Bases. It pulls in docs via a web crawler and S3, then stuffs embeddings intoAmazon OpenSearch Serverless. Access is role-aware, locked down withCognito. Everything spins up clean withAWS CDK... read more  

Authors discuss their approach to scaling generative recommendation models from O(1M) to O(1B) parameters for Netflix tasks, improving training stability, computational efficiency, and evaluation methodology. They address challenges in alignment, cold-start adaptation, and deployment, proposing syst.. read more  

A new way to build agents treats prompting ascontext navigation, steering the LLM through ideas like a pilot, not tossing it prompts and hoping for magic. It maps neatly onto Steven Johnson’s seven patterns of innovation. For coding agents to actually pull their weight, users need to bring more than.. read more  

AI speeds up dev - but it’s a double-edged keyboard. It sneaks in subtle bugs and brittle logic that break under pressure. To keep things sane, teams are fighting back withguardrail patterns,AI-aware linters, andtest suites hardened for hallucinated code... read more  

Researchers pulled off a slick persistence trick usingAWS CLI aliases. They chained dynamic alias renaming with command execution to swipe credentials, without breaking expected CLI behavior. No red flags. Perfect fit forautomated environmentslike CI/CD pipelines. Backdoors, no AWS CLI tampering req.. read more  

Cloud-native breaches keep slipping through the cracks, not because no one’s watching, but because they’re watching the wrong things. Static checks and posture tools can’t catch what happens in motion. That’s where most attacks live now: at runtime. Think app-layer exploits, poisoned dependencies, s.. read more  

A seasoned Google engineer drops 21 sharp principles for scaling engineering beyond just writing code. Think:clarity beats cleverness,users over egos,alignment over being “right.”The core message? Build systems humans can work with - especially under stress. Favorites: kill pointless work, treat pro.. read more