A fresh look at Linux monitoring tools shows the classics still hold—but the visual crowd’s moving in. Old-school command-liners liketopandvmstatremain go-to’s for quick reads. But picks likeNetdata,btop, andMonitbring dashboards, colors, and actual UX. Tools likeiftop,Nmon, andSuricatastretch deep.. read more  

Rich Hickey’s classic “Simple Made Easy” talk is making the rounds again—as a mirror held up to dev culture under pressure. The punchline: we keep picking solutions that areeasy but tangled, instead ofsimple and sane. The essay draws a sharp line between that habit and a concept from biology: exapt.. read more  

Kubernetes'Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)tries to be helpful by tweaking CPU and memory requests on the fly. Problem is, it needs to bounce your pods to do it. And if you're also runningHorizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)on the same metrics? Now they're fighting over control. VPA sees a narrow slice of .. read more  

Amazon EKS just cranked its Kubernetes cluster limit to100,000 nodes—a 10x jump. The secret sauce? A reworkedetcdwith an internaljournalsystem andin-memorystorage. Toss in tightAPI server tuningand network tweaks, and the result is wild: 500 pods per second, 900K pods, 10M+ objects, no sweat—even un.. read more  

Kubernetes 1.34 brings serious heat for anyone juggling GPUs or accelerators. MeetDynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)—a new way to schedule hardware like you mean it. DRA addsResourceClaims,DeviceClasses, andResourceSlices, slicing device management away from pod specs. It replaces the old device plu.. read more  

Lucidity has upgraded itsAutoScaler. It now handles persistent volumes on AWS-hosted Kubernetes, automatically scaling storage and reducing waste. The upgrade bringspod-level isolation,fault tolerance, andbulk Linux onboarding. Azure and GCP are next on the list... read more  

Nigel Douglas discusses the challenges of security in Kubernetes, particularly with traditional base operating systems. Talos Linux offers a different approach with a secure-by-default, API-driven model specifically for Kubernetes. CISOs play a critical role in guiding organizations through the shif.. read more  

A new attack chain messes withKubernetes DNS resolutionandArgoCD’s certificate injectionto swipe GitHub credentials. With the right permissions, a user inside the cluster can reroute GitOps traffic to a fake internal service, sniff auth headers, and quietly walk off with tokens. What’s broken:GitOp.. read more  

AI isn’t just burning compute—it's torching old-school FinOps. Reserved Instances? Idle detection? Cute, but not built for GPU bottlenecks and model-heavy pipelines. What’s actually happening:Infra teams are ditching cost-first playbooks for something smarter—business-aligned orchestrationthat chas.. read more  

Kubecost’s Amazon EKS add-on now handlesautomated container request right-sizing. That means teams can tweak CPU and memory requests based on actual usage—once or on a recurring schedule. Optimization profiles are customizable, and resizing can be baked into cluster setup using Helm. Yes, that mean.. read more