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Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer

DigitalOcean just dropped **Organizations**—a real upgrade for anyone juggling multiple Teams. Think one top-level account to rule them all: centralized user control, one invoice to track, and org-wide settings for taxes, credits, and permissions...

Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer
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How FinOps Drives Value for Every Engineering Dollar

Duolingo’s FinOps crew didn’t just track cloud costs—they wired up sharp, automated observability across 100+ microservices. Real-time alerts now catch AI and infra spend spikes before they torch the budget. They sliced TTS costs by 40% with in-memory caching. Dumped pricey CloudWatch metrics for P..

How FinOps Drives Value for Every Engineering Dollar
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Observability for the Invisible: Tracing Message Drops in Kafka Pipelines

When an event drops silently in a distributed system, it is not a bug, it is an architectural blind spot. Detect, debug, and prevent message loss in Kafka-based streaming pipelines using tools like OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Jaeger, and dead-letter queues. Make sure observability gaps in event strea..

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Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

A teardown of Argo CD anti-patterns calls out 28 common misfires—stuff like skipping Git for Application CRDs or stuffing Helm/Kustomize config right into Argo CD manifests. Yikes. It pushes for a cleaner setup: use **ApplicationSets** instead of rolling your own YAML, turn on **auto-sync/self-heal..

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What are Error Budgets? A Guide to Managing Reliability

OneUptime shows how to put **error budgets** to work—keeping feature velocity in check without tanking reliability. The goal: ship fast, stay within SLOs. They do it by tracking **burn rates**, syncing across teams, and tuning SLOs to match how users actually use the product. Less guesswork, more s..

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GitHub MCP Registry

GitHub just rolled out the **MCP Registry**—a hub for finding **Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers** without hunting through scattered corners of the internet. No more siloed lists or mystery URLs. It's all in one place now. The goal? Cleaner access to AI agent tools, plus a path toward **self-pu..

GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover AI tools
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v1.34: Pod Level Resources Graduated to Beta

Kubernetes v1.34 bumps **Pod Level Resources** to Beta—and flips them on by default. Now you can set CPU, memory, and hugepages limits for the whole Pod, not just per container. That means smoother scheduling, stricter resource caps, and less sidecar thrashing. **Why it matters:** This shifts Kuber..

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Top 10 Kubernetes Deployment Errors: Causes and Fixes (And Tips)

Misconfigured YAML. Broken image refs. Botched resource settings. Most Kubernetes deploys don't fail mysteriously—they fail predictably. This guide breaks down the top 10 culprits: things like `CrashLoopBackOff`, bad image pulls, and `OOMKills`. More importantly, it shows how to dodge them with bet..

Top 10 Kubernetes Deployment Errors: Causes and Fixes (And Tips)
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Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks

Databricks replaced default Kubernetes load balancing for a **proxyless, client-side gRPC setup**, wired up through a custom control plane. No more **CoreDNS**. No more **kube-proxy**. Clients now get live endpoint discovery through **xDS**, plus smarter routing tricks like **Power of Two Choices** ..

Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks
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Fluentd to Fluent Bit: A Migration Guide

Fluent Bit just edged out Fluentd as the CNCF’s go-to log processor. Why? It's fast—up to 40× faster. Built in C. Embedded plugins. Native OpenTelemetry. Full observability baked in. It handles routing, schema changes, and telemetry across containers and edge systems without flinching. No Ruby here..

Fluentd to Fluent Bit: A Migration Guide
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