A former engineering leader lays out a no-nonsense framework for tracking team output without turning into Big Brother. Think:daily Slack updates,weekly GitHub changelogs,tight 1:1s,demo-fueled All-Hands, andauto-verified deploys. It leans onpublic artifacts, not peeking over shoulders - and puts th.. read more  

The 2025 State of AI Report just landed—China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels. AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate plannin.. read more  

Docker just made debugging Dockerfiles inVS Codefeel like real development. With the latest Docker extension and Docker Desktop update, you can now set breakpoints, step through builds with F10/F11, poke at variables, and mess with the container’s file system mid-build... read more  

The Kubernetes Gateway API leveled up - unifying North-South, East-West, and egress traffic with standard CRDs likeGRPCRoute,HTTPRoute, andReferenceGrant. In a Linkerd world, that means clean, declarative canary releases, granular egress control to outside APIs (say, Mistral AI), and clearer lines b.. read more  

Running RKE2 with Cilium and MetalLB in a lightweight Podman VM on macOS enables experimentation with Kubernetes. Unique network challenges require SSH port forwarding for service exposure... read more  

The Kubernetes Policy Working Group got busy turning good intentions into real specs. They rolled out thePolicy Reports API, dropped best-practice docs worth reading, and helped steerValidatingAdmissionPolicyandMutatingAdmissionPolicytoward GA. Their work pulled inSIG Auth,SIG Security, and anyone e.. read more  

Seven ways folks trip over Kubernetes - each more avoidable than the last. Top offenses: skippingresource requests/limits, forgettinghealth probes, trustingephemeral logsthat vanish when you need them. Reusing configs across dev and prod? Still a bad idea. Pushing off observability until it’s on fir.. read more  

Bare-metal Kubernetes just got a cloud-style glow-up. By wiring upMetalLBin layer2 mode with theNGINX ingress controller, the setup exposesLoadBalancer-typeservices—no cloud provider in sight. MetalLB dishes out static, LAN-routable IPs. NGINX funnels external traffic to internalClusterIPservices th.. read more  

AWS shows how to wire upArgo CDwithAWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)to automateEKS Pod Identityfor IAM roles - GitOps-style. The catch? The Pod Identity API has a lag. So they bolt on apre-deployment validation jobto wait-and-confirm that the IAM role's actually bound before app pods come online... read more  

DoubleVerify built a traffic replay tool that actually scales. It runs onPekko StreamsandPekko Cluster, pumping real production-like traffic into non-prod setups. Throttlenails the RPS with precision for functional tests.Distributed datasyncs stressful loads across cluster nodes without breaking a s.. read more