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How to Fix Developer Productivity at 50+ Engineers

You ship a feature. It works. A week later, someone asks why it's not in staging yet, and you realize it's behind an infrastructure request that's still in review. The ticket isn't urgent enough to escalate. It's also not small enough to ignore. So it waits.

That's what a developer productivity problem feels like at 50 engineers.

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AI Reliability Engineering: The New Era of SRE

🤖 As AI becomes part of critical business operations, reliability is no longer just an infrastructure concern. From latency and model drift to observability and trust, AI workloads introduce a new set of challenges for modern SRE teams. In our latest article, we look at how reliability engineering i..

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@eon01 shared a link, 1 week ago

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Running AI shouldn't require a credit card. This list curates genuinely free models — open-weight models you can self-host, free API tiers from major providers, and tools to run everything locally.

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Kata Containers is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project designed to close the security gap between traditional Linux containers and virtual machines. Instead of sharing a single host kernel like standard containers, Kata Containers launches each pod or container inside its own lightweight virtual machine using hardware virtualization.

This approach dramatically reduces the attack surface and prevents container escape vulnerabilities, making Kata ideal for multi-tenant, untrusted, or sensitive workloads. Despite using VMs under the hood, Kata is optimized for fast startup times and integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes through the Container Runtime Interface (CRI), allowing it to be used alongside runtimes like containerd and CRI-O.

Kata Containers is commonly used in scenarios such as multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, confidential computing, sandboxed AI workloads, serverless platforms, and agent execution environments where strong isolation is mandatory. It supports multiple hypervisors, including QEMU, Firecracker, and Cloud Hypervisor, and continues to evolve toward faster boot times, lower memory overhead, and better hardware acceleration support.