Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release) (25 minute read)
Kubernetes v1.35 features 60 enhancements, including 17 stable, 19 beta, and 22 alpha features, most notably graduating in-place updates for Pod resources and native workload identity with automated certificate rotation to general availability. The update also removed cgroup v1 support, deprecated ipvs mode in kube-proxy, and announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX controller.
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Let's talk about GitHub Actions (6 minute read)
GitHub rebuilt the core architecture of Actions to scale reliably to 71 million jobs per day, then shipped long-requested improvements, including YAML anchors, deeper reusable workflows, larger caches, and more inputs. Further UX, scheduling, and parallelism enhancements have been planned for 2026.
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CDKTF is deprecated: What's next for your team? (5 minute read)
CDK for Terraform (CDKTF), introduced in July 2020, was officially deprecated on December 10, leaving many teams seeking a replacement for cloud infrastructure management. Pulumi is the simplest and most broadly compatible migration path. It offers similar multi-language support and built-in conversion tools for CDKTF projects.
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (4 minute read)
Engineers are responsible for delivering code that is proven to work, not dumping large, untested AI-generated changes onto reviewers and shifting the burden of validation onto others. Proof requires both manual testing and automated tests, and even when using coding agents, the human remains accountable for ensuring evidence of correctness accompanies every PR.
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OpenLIT (GitHub Repo)
OpenLIT is an open-source platform for AI engineering that simplifies Generative AI and LLM development by providing full-stack, OpenTelemetry-native observability for LLMs, vector databases, and GPUs via a single line of code. The platform integrates with over 50 LLM providers, vector databases, agent frameworks, and GPUs. It offers tools for prompt management, cost tracking, exception monitoring, and secure API key handling.
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headson (GitHub Repo)
headson is a CLI tool similar to head/tail for JSON and YAML, but structure‑aware. It provides a compact preview that shows both the shape and representative values of your data, all within a strict byte budget.
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Azure networking updates on security, reliability, and high availability (5 minute read)
Azure is advancing its networking platform to power the next wave of cloud and AI transformation, with massive backbone scale, AI-optimized datacenter fabrics, zone-resilient networking by default, expanded security capabilities, higher-throughput ExpressRoute and VPN options, and deeper Kubernetes and container networking enhancements to deliver resilient, secure, and high-performance connectivity at hyperscale.
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Inside the feature store powering real-time AI in Dropbox Dash (7 minute read)
Dropbox developed a custom feature store to power the AI-driven search in its Dash product, enabling rapid retrieval of relevant files by understanding complex user queries across company content. This hybrid architecture leveraged Feast for orchestration, Spark for computation, and Dropbox's in-house Dynovault for low-latency lookups, alongside a custom Go service that achieved sub-100ms p95 latencies for thousands of feature lookups per query.
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