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How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday: Predictive Modeling
ATLANTA — When running a web-scale operation, reacting to increased demand means you are already behind the curve, advised a duo of Amazon engineers at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon NA conference, held...
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AWS, Google Build a Multicloud Bridge
Addressing a long-standing perceived roadblock in enabling systems to span multiple cloud services, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud have jointly developed a standard for customers to easily...
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Mooncake Brings Databricks Rich Transactional Processing
All those AI Agents will that will soon be swarming about will need fresh data, which is causing the data platform community to urgently think about ways to better inject analytics directly into...
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Ignore Prior Instructions: AI Still Befuddled by Basic Reasoning
A fact is a fact is a fact. But for a large language model (LLM), a fact is what someone says is a fact, if, in fact, they say it sternly enough. The CTO of Microsoft Azure had select words to share...
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IBM’s Confluent Acquisition Is About Event-Driven AI
IBM is no stranger to AI, given its long history with its AI Watson project and countless other efforts. But today’s AI hits different. On Monday, IBM announced that it had begun the process of...
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Apache Wayang Makes Data Processing a Cross-Platform Job
Most data processing frameworks are built on a single execution engine. Not Apache Wayang. Last week, The Apache Software Foundation debuted the Wayang data processing framework as a top-level Apache...
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IBM HashiCorp ‘Sunsets’ Terraform’s External Language Support
Going forward, when you run IBM‘s Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software, you will have one language to write your configurations: the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). On Monday,...
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CSS Layout: How To ‘Center a Div,’ the Old School Way
In the early days of the internet, centering something on a webpage was easy: Just put a <center> tag on it. When it revised the HTML to version 4.0, however, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)...
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Docker Sets Free the Hardened Container Images
With a sprawling cloud native ecosystem, security needs to be as scalable as everything else. Hence, the rise of the software bill of materials (SBOM), a systematic accounting for all the software...
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Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling
As any good home gardener knows, a healthy plant can outgrow its planter. And so it is with Kubernetes jobs, some have found. They are growing too big for the nodes that they run on. The latest...
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Apple UX Pioneer on Reviving Computer Desktop Design
Scott Jenson is sad over the stagnation of computer desktop design, a field with still-untapped potential for making humans way more productive. “Desktop UX has not meaningfully changed in 20 years,”...
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Kubernetes: Get the Most from Dynamic Resource Allocation
With both data center electricity and hardware prices skyrocketing, most organizations will soon be looking to squeeze more efficiencies from their current investments, especially those embarking on...
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Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing
Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he has seen in his entire career. In an interview on the...
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How AI Will Help Tomorrow’s IT Operations
The year 2025 started out with a bang, with the AI community collectively deciding to use the MCP format to build agentic systems, and moving on to a focus on building operational AI frameworks. For...
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Kepler: OpenAI’s Internal Agent Platform for Synthesizing Data
For OpenAI employees, asking a question even as seemingly simple as how many ChatGPT Pro users it has in one particular country can be surprisingly difficult, given that the needed data may be...
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Red Hat Customizes RHEL for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI Platform
Building on continual partnership work with the chip company, Red Hat has pledged to offer “Day 0” support for Nvidia’s newly-announced Vera Rubin Platform, when it arrives later this year. The...
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Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly
Did Kubernetes break up Amazon Web Services cloud party? As the co-founder and CTO of cloud native hardware company Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill isn’t one to shy away from speaking his mind....
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OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes
Database support provider Percona is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). For Kubernetes environs, the newly named...
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The Key to Agentic Success? BASH Is All You Need
Agent builders are finding that sometimes the easiest way for an agent to do its job is to simply give it a few Unix tools and “let it cook.” A recent project from Vercel found that stripping away...
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ScyllaDB’s New Cloud Challenges DynamoDB Cost, Performance
High-performance database system provider ScyllaDB has launched a new database cloud service that promises to rival the performance of Amazon Web Services‘ DynamoDB key store, while costing only half...
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CNCF Dragonfly Speeds Container, Model Sharing with P2P
The Dragonfly project, an open source peer-to-peer image and file distribution system, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation‘s program for incubating new cloud native technologies....
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The art of visual inspection: Spot the hidden story in your charts
You have a nice set of data, but how do you convey its meaning to an audience? In the latest of a series of free technology talks, the Association for Computing Machinery presented noted researcher...
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Cisco is using eBPF to rethink firewalls, vulnerability mitigation
Networking giant Cisco purchased Isovalent in 2024 to get in on the cloud native action. In our cloud native community, Isovalent was primarily known for Cilium, an Extended Berkeley Packet Filter...
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QCon chat: Is agentic AI killing continuous integration?
In the age of AI, will we still need continuous integration (CI) at all? One panelist in a QCon AI conference panel on AI and engineering asked this, perhaps deliberatively provocative, question: Will...
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Terraform challenger Formae expands to more clouds
Late last year, startup Platform Engineering Labs made waves in the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by introducing a new IaC platform, called Formae, available initially on Amazon Web Services....
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Kubernetes telemetry feature fully compromises clusters
If Kubernetes admins don’t have enough to worry about with the upcoming Nginx gateway cutoff, they now may need to rifle through their Helm charts to potentially thwart a dangerous setting. Security...
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