The Rise of the Cognitive Architect
At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI teams. He envisions developers evolving into “cognitiv...
10 Des 202522min
Why the CNCF's New Executive Director is Obsessed With Inference
Jonathan Bryce, the new CNCF executive director, argues that inference—not model training—will define the next decade of computing. Speaking at KubeCon North America 2025, he emphasized that while the...
9 Des 202525min
Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmented AI ecosystem. Announced at KubeCon + CloudNative...
8 Des 202530min
How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain with Deterministic Testing
The etcd project — a distributed key-value store older than Kubernetes — recently faced significant challenges due to maintainer turnover and the resulting loss of unwritten institutional knowledge. L...
5 Des 202521min
Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager?
Helm — originally a hackathon project called Kate’s Place — turned 10 in 2025, marking the milestone with the release of Helm 4, its first major update in six years. Created by Matt Butcher and collea...
3 Des 202524min
All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization
Kubernetes has relied on role-based access control (RBAC) since 2017, but its simplicity limits what developers can express, said Micah Hausler, principal engineer at AWS, on The New Stack Makers. RBA...
2 Des 202516min
Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible
JupyterLite, a fully browser-based distribution of JupyterLab, is enabling new levels of global scalability in technical education. Developed by Sylvain Corlay’s QuantStack team, it allows math and pr...
1 Des 202519min
2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS
AWS’s approach to Elastic Kubernetes Service has evolved significantly since its 2018 launch. According to Mike Stefanik, Senior Manager of Product Management for EKS and ECR, today’s users increasing...
28 Nov 202523min
