Istio 1.31 Explained: What Changed and How to Upgrade Your Service Mesh
Istio 1.31 explained: ambient mesh changes, deprecations and upgrade notes, plus a safe revision-based canary upgrade plan for sidecar or ambient mode.
Rust in the Linux Kernel Goes Mainstream: What It Means for Embedded and IoT Drivers
Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel. What changed, how Rust drivers work, and what embedded and IoT teams should do about out-of-tree.
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.