OpenTofu 1.10: Major Updates for Modern IaC (9 minute read)
OpenTofu 1.10 introduces long-requested features like OCI registry support, native S3 backend locking, advanced resource migration, and improved PostgreSQL state management, reinforcing its position as a robust, open-source infrastructure-as-code tool. Now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTofu is gaining rapid adoption with nearly 10 million GitHub downloads, 25,000 stars, and a revitalized governance model that strengthens its community-driven future.
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Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute (6 minute read)
Cloudflare Containers are now in beta for all paid users, enabling powerful, flexible workloads to run alongside Workers with a familiar development workflow and tight integration across the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Containers spin up globally on demand, support custom logic and observability, and offer transparent, usage-based pricing with upcoming features like global autoscaling and enhanced intercommunication between Containers and Workers.
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Announcing Rust 1.88.0 (4 minute read)
Rust 1.88.0 introduces let chains for more flexible conditional logic (available in the 2024 edition), naked functions for low-level control of assembly, boolean config predicates for clearer conditional compilation, and automatic cache cleanup in Cargo to reduce disk usage. It also stabilizes several APIs and const contexts, and demotes the i686-pc-windows-gnu target to Tier 2.
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Who is Going to Pay For This? (7 minute read)
Observability tools often appear inexpensive per unit of data but can become extremely costly at production scale due to high volume telemetry ingestion and storage. OpenTelemetry reduces vendor lock-in but increases data size and costs, highlighting the need for careful planning on what telemetry to collect and how it will be used to control expenses.
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GKE workload scheduling: Strategies for when resources get tight (6 minute read)
GKE enables efficient workload scheduling using a combination of autoscaling tools, workload configurations, and compute classes, but effective deployment still requires careful planning around cost, performance, flexibility, and capacity constraints. Solutions like workload priorities, placeholder pods, custom compute classes, and multi-cluster orchestration help platform engineers navigate scheduling challenges and optimize resource allocation across regions.
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Gemini CLI (GitHub Repo)
The Gemini CLI, a command-line AI workflow tool, allows users to interact with the Gemini AI model directly from their terminal.
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Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere (3 minute read)
Ticket-driven development prioritizes constant activity over thoughtful progress, reducing developers to task-completers instead of problem-solvers and eroding code quality, team morale, and long-term effectiveness. To escape this cycle, teams must reclaim autonomy, ask why, improve code incrementally, and remember that meaningful delivery means moving with purpose—not just moving fast.
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