OpenTelemetry Specification 1.61 and Q3 2026 Changes: What Platform Teams Should Do
OpenTelemetry Specification v1.61 and recent Collector, Rust 0.33 and Demo 3.1 releases: what changed in Q3 2026, migration risks, and a pragmatic upgrade.
Time-Series Database Internals: InfluxDB 3, TimescaleDB, and QuestDB Under the Hood
Time series database internals compared: InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, TigerData TimescaleDB and QuestDB, with updated October 2026 facts.
gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL vs Connect: API Protocol Comparison 2026
gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL vs Connect compared at the wire level for October 2026: framing, caching, streaming, browsers and a decision matrix.
eBPF for Observability: How Kernel-Level Tracing Replaced Traditional APM
eBPF observability, updated October 2026: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) v0.13, Tetragon 1.7, Cilium 1.19, Parca, Pixie and kernel 7.x.
PostgreSQL 19 Release Guide: Logical Replication, WAL Level and Upgrade Plan
PostgreSQL 19 beta guide: sequence replication, dynamic WAL level, new monitoring views, breaking changes, and a pg_upgrade or logical replication upgrade plan.
Kubernetes 1.37 Memory QoS and Pod-Level Resource Managers Beta Explained
Kubernetes 1.37 brings Memory QoS and pod-level resource managers to beta. cgroup v2 memory.high behavior, throttling risks and tuning guidance.
Kubernetes 1.37 Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles GA: Workload Identity Guide
Pod Certificates and ClusterTrustBundles reach GA in Kubernetes 1.37. How pod X.509 identity works vs SPIFFE and cert-manager, with migration steps.
Kubernetes 1.37 HPA Scale-to-Zero Beta vs KEDA and Knative
Kubernetes 1.37 moves HPA scale-to-zero to beta. How it works, its limits, and when KEDA or Knative still win for event-driven workloads.
AI Data Center Power: Behind-the-Meter, Nuclear PPAs and Grid Architecture
JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan a 400MW behind-the-meter AI campus; Amazon signed a Calvert Cliffs nuclear PPA. How AI data center power architecture works.
AI-Generated Code in CI/CD: Guardrails for a DevSecOps Pipeline
42% of developers say AI writes half their code. A CI/CD guardrail architecture: provenance, SAST, policy-as-code, review gates and metrics.