InfoQ - DevOps

Presentation: Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

By Patrick Debois

Kubernetes Teams Get a Safer Way to See Their Own GPU Metrics

Craig Risi — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Adobe engineers have described an open-source approach for giving teams self-service access to their own Prometheus metrics in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, without exposing the shared metrics of other teams.

By Craig Risi

Atlassian Rebuilds Metrics Pipeline Around OpenTelemetry at Massive Scale

Matt Saunders — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SLO, so the team had to change the platform without disrupting the metrics used by production alerts.

By Matt Saunders

Cloudflare Worker Previews: Per-Branch Environments for Workers

Claudio Masolo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare has introduced Worker Previews. This feature allows each Git branch to have its own isolated, production-like environment for a Worker. Each environment has a stable URL. It also has its own configuration and unique state for each branch. Plus, there’s scoped observability.

By Claudio Masolo

Python Workers Reach GA on Cloudflare, with Questions About Cold Starts and Upstream Maintenance

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:33:00 GMT

Cloudflare has made Python Workers generally available, built on PEP 783 and on socket syscalls implemented over the Workers connect API. The announcement carries no performance figures. A urllib3 maintainer questioned who supports the upstream work afterwards, and Wasmer's founder asked for cold-start numbers, citing about 1.027 seconds from Cloudflare's own earlier post.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Artifactory Vulnerabilities under Active Exploitation Enable Authentication Bypass and Admin Access

Sergio De Simone — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Three Artifactory vulnerabilities under active exploitation enable authentication bypassing on Internet-accessible, self-hosted deployments, potentially allowing attackers to establish persistent administrator access in under five minutes. The exploits then enable dangerous activity, including credential and key theft, arbitrary code execution, persistence, and anti-forensics measures.

By Sergio De Simone

Uber Separates Scaling Intent from Execution on Kubernetes Platform

Matt Saunders — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Uber has published a detailed account of its new ServiceScale controller, which allows multiple orchestrators to safely manage the scaling of the same Kubernetes workloads. The blog post, written by senior software engineers Egor Grishechko and Srikar Paruchuru, describes how the company separated scaling intent from execution to support regional failover without carrying reserved idle capacity.

By Matt Saunders

GKE Pod Snapshots Cut Model Load Times, and Move the Work to Snapshot Lifecycle Management

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:46:00 GMT

Google has published benchmarks for GKE Pod snapshots, reporting up to 89% lower startup latency and a 70B model loading in 37 seconds. The feature checkpoints CPU and GPU memory through gVisor into Cloud Storage. Practitioners have asked whether invalidation is the harder problem, since snapshots match on a spec hash, machine series, and kernel and driver versions.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Docker Cloud Sandboxes Provide a Consistent Sandbox Abstraction across Laptop and Cloud

Sergio De Simone — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Docker Cloud Sandboxes provide secure, hosted execution environments for running AI coding agents on Docker-managed infrastructure. Built on hardware-enforced microVM isolation, the platform provides a consistent execution environment and unified CLI workflows for seamlessly moving workloads from local machines to the cloud.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Details its Migration to "WordPress Successor" EmDash

Renato Losio — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:38:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently documented the migration of its main blog from WordPress to EmDash, the open source content management system developed internally. The new platform is designed to improve performance and caching, and it was tested to handle traffic of up to 7000 requests per second.

By Renato Losio

Grafana Turns Cypress Test Results into Persistent Observability Data

Craig Risi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Grafana Labs has published a practical approach for monitoring Cypress test suites by converting test results into Prometheus metrics and sending them to Grafana Cloud.

By Craig Risi

Presentation: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model communication via OCapN, and petname systems. Discover how Spritely leverages Scheme, WebAssembly (Hoot), and local-first CRDTs to build secure, peer-to-peer applications without central servers.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson

Un-Mused: How a Single Debug Setting Bypassed macOS Security in Meta’s AI Client

Olimpiu Pop — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:14:00 GMT

Security researcher Patrick Wardle revealed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse desktop client for macOS. This flaw lets unprivileged software manipulate the assistant's extensive permissions, compromising input confidentiality and account security. Despite a hotfix from Meta, the vulnerability raises significant concerns about platform trust and security boundaries.

By Olimpiu Pop

Beyond Kubernetes at Modal: How to Scale 1 Million Concurrent Sandboxes in Seconds

Sergio De Simone — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second.

By Sergio De Simone

Presentation: APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

Jim Gough, Andreea Niculcea — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea explain how Morgan Stanley uses Architecture as Code with CALM to modernize its API program. They demonstrate integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communications, enforcing automated governance through deployment gates, and executing zero-downtime platform upgrades to safely scale enterprise AI and agentic workflows.

By Jim Gough, Andreea Niculcea