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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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
From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of Mirantis, Sean O'Dell of Dynatrace and James Harmi...
28 Nov 202544min
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026
AWS re:Invent has long featured CTO Werner Vogels’ closing keynote, but this year he signaled it may be his last, emphasizing it’s time for “younger voices” at Amazon. After 21 years with the company,...
25 Nov 202554min
How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem?
DevOps practitioners — whether developers, operators, SREs or business stakeholders — increasingly rely on telemetry to guide decisions, yet face growing complexity, siloed teams and rising observabil...
20 Nov 202522min
