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.. read more  

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.. read more  

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... read more  

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.. read more  

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.. read more  

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.. read more  

Obot.ai just dropped out of stealth with $35M in seed and a big swing: it’s building a control plane for agentic AI, anchored on the now-standard **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**. Its **MCP Gateway** handles registry, secure proxying, RBAC, and observability for MCP servers. Think API gateway, but .. read more  

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.. read more  

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** .. read more  

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.. read more