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Why Linux creator Linus Torvalds gets angry hearing “99% of code is AI”
During his keynote at the recent Open Source Summit North America, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds did not mince words about those who contend AI will remove the need for human programmers. Instead of AI “replacing” programming, Torvalds told the audience gathered in Minneapolis that AI boosts productivity in the same way that past technological revolutions did. Programmers will ultimately use AI to generate the source code, which compilers then turn into machine code.
Why Broadcom is betting on a private cloud comeback
Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) continues to evolve from a turnkey infrastructure stack to a modern app substrate. At stake for VCF’s ongoing development is striking a balance between providing an “easy button” for cloud infrastructure and an open, flexible platform aligned with the evolution of Kubernetes.
SUSE Rancher and Vultr want to break AI infrastructure free from the hyperscalers
Organizations looking to scale their AI workloads and infrastructure on Kubernetes were largely limited to expensive hyperscaler options. As DevOps and platform engineering teams learn how to properly adopt AI infrastructure for cloud-native deployments, a range of choices is emerging beyond what the major cloud providers offer for deploying heavy AI-inference workloads running on Kubernetes.
Vultr says its Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure costs 50% to 90% less than hyperscalers
Vultr is using Nvidia GPUs and AI agents like OpenClaw to automate infrastructure setup for developers — and says the result costs 50% to 90% less than comparable offerings from major hyperscalers. The platform, built for internal developer portals, lets platform engineering teams train AI on their own security policies, networking rules, and compliance requirements, then expose that as a library of preconfigured options developers can deploy with a click.
Why Broadcom gave Velero to the CNCF Sandbox — and what it means for Kubernetes data protection
Broadcom has deep roots as one of the leading contributors to CNCF open source as it continues to extend its support for Kubernetes and other projects as organizations improve and grow their cloud native infrastructure. With the VMware donation of Velero this month, more open-source community and user organizations can integrate their needs more easily when contributing to the project, and with the addition of CNCF support as well.
WebAssembly is now outperforming containers at the edge
The mass adoption of WebAssembly has yet to be realized. The true turning point for WebAssembly — specifically its ability to ship lightweight code to any number of endpoints with millisecond latency — rests on finalizing the component model.
WebAssembly could solve AI agents’ most dangerous security gap
AI agent-generated code poses an often-overlooked threat: the possibility that an agent will generate unchecked, potentially lethal commands. Think of Hal 9000 taking over the mission in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. While that was sci-fi, it’s not far from a real scenario playing out today: Code derived from LLM output can produce AI agents that gain access to sensitive data and applications, wreaking havoc on the environment.
Broadcom donates Velero to CNCF — and it could reshape how Kubernetes users handle backup and disaster recovery
Broadcom VMware announced on Monday that it will donate Velero to the CNCF sandbox project, a move the company describes as a way to extend VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service to Kubernetes user organizations in both private and public clouds. Taking a cue from user-organization feedback, Broadcom VMware’s expanding integration with open-source options gives users more freedom to mix and match Kubernetes infrastructure support.
Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure
My gut reaction has often been to compare WebAssembly to Kubernetes. Flash back to over four years ago: Then, I put this concept to the test by comparing WebAssembly to Kubernetes in an article. Not long after the article’s publication, I attended a workshop generously hosted by Cosmonic to use the WebAssembly cloud and learn how to deploy applications with WasmCloud. I got my first hands-on experience with WebAssembly.
The AI Shift: Why RISC-V is poised to challenge Arm and x86
The RISC-V standard has evolved and matured to the extent that performance drawbacks have largely disappeared compared with the long-tried and tested – and much pricier – Arm and x86 processors.
How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility
The integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) into the Helm ecosystem streamlines the orchestration of WASI-compliant binaries across disparate environments, including OCI containers and virtualized infrastructure. By leveraging Helm’s templating engine, developers can standardize the lifecycle of sandboxed modules while maintaining a high degree of portability.
Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets
Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets Featured image by Serena Viola for Unsplash+. Internal access management (IAM) is seeing compounded growth in demand and adoption as a key component in zero trust and security in general, expanding across cloud native to legacy infrastructures. According to Forrester, the market size of identity access will total $27.5 billion by 2029 at a compound annual growth rate of 15.3% from 2024 until 2029.
OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead
OpenTelemetry roadmap: Sampling rates and collector improvements ahead Featured image by Getty Images for Unsplash+. OpenTelemetry has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing number of organizations in need of instrumenting applications and standardizing telemetry data. It is designed so that the data can be understood by different observability platforms and visualization and storage systems of your choice.
Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice
The often-misunderstood controversies regarding Prometheus and OpenTelemetry arise more from technical incompatibilities that have since been resolved. Without going into the history of those controversies, it can be said that Prometheus remains the gold standard for metrics from Kubernetes deployments. OpenTelemetry acts as a conduit to Prometheus, complementing it with distributed traces and, more recently, logs.
The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V?
The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V? Featured image by Getty Images for Unsplash+. The Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) has continued on an adoption path that extends its integral role in observability, security, and networking functionality from the kernel to wherever applications and environments are deployed. Since its creation, it has served as a par excellence way to distribute code directly from the kernel and through a sandbox throughout the network.
Is open source in trouble?
First, the bad. I would argue that current open-source practices and usage are unsustainable, or at the very least, there is a lot of room for improvement. In the current climate, there is a long litany of structural problems. These include the growing possibility of burnout, as some of the most talented developers are working for free or with little — usually no — compensation, even though that compensation would be well warranted. Burnout is a real issue.
Docker versus Nix: The quest for true reproducibility
When conducting performance benchmarks, the ultimate goal is an apples-to-apples comparison. Docker, widely recognized as one of the most brilliant inventions of the last 15 years, offers a level of reproducibility that allows engineers to share applications running on a test bed. Consequently, containers have become a practicable standard for replicating tests. However, significant caveats remain.
The ‘weird’ things that happened when Clickhouse replaced C++ with Rust
ClickHouse’s decision to shift parts of its codebase to Rust is a perfect storm: the convergence of a wildly popular database and a language riding a massive wave of momentum.
Beyond automation: Dynatrace unveils agentic AI that fixes problems on its own
AI unsurprisingly took center stage during the keynotes and throughout much of Dynatrace Perform 2026, the annual user conference last week in Vegas. But while AI now plays a profound role in DevOps, platform engineering, and IT in general, its role in observability is rapidly becoming critical for those who monitor systems and take action based on AI-augmented observability data.
Start Small and Go Big With Open Source Gonzo for Observability
Logs are essentially a language, and if you throw the right information into a large language model (LLM), it can help explain what happened. There is a hook in Gonzo where users can throw a log into their favorite LLM via backend APIs. This helps bubble up patterns such as repeated critical metrics and assists in pattern analysis and heat charts to separate the signal from the noise.
Open Source Whamm: Use WebAssembly To Monitor and Fix Running Apps
Whamm is designed to allow users to instrument their WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications with a programming language or code, or let them program their WebAssembly applications in modules directly. With it, they can debug and monitor their applications within WebAssembly modules. If you have Homebrew already installed, updates will be installed automatically as Whamm is installed.
Honeycomb’s 'Private Cloud' Is Largely About OpenTelemetry, AI and AWS
Honeycomb’s 'Private Cloud' Is Largely About OpenTelemetry, AI and AWS Featured image by Getty Images for Unsplash+. The observability provider Honeycomb has named its recent offering for private cloud — eponymously called Private Cloud. It is largely designed to accommodate the explosion of code and AI hallucinations, for which observability is increasingly required. Additionally, it is almost exclusively for AWS.
WASI 1.0: You Won't Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026
WASI 1.0: You Won't Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026 Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash. WebAssembly made huge strides with the release of Wasm 3.0 and the component model. However, the last lap in the race to WebAssembly’s true fruition is set to come with the planned release of WASI 0.3.0 in 2026, likely in February.
Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026?
Observability is not living up to expectations. As prices continue to rise, the pain is increasingly felt. This year has a foreboding sense of increased infrastructure complexity to manage at scale. In reaction to skyrocketing public cloud pricing, many organizations have shifted toward private cloud, often resulting in even more complexity. At scale, organizations now increasingly face multi-cloud and heterogeneous environments spanning public cloud, private cloud and on-premises systems.
Sidero Labs Extends Talos Linux Directly to Broadcom VMs
ATLANTA — Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux was created to offer an alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments. It serves as a lightweight but highly scalable operating system designed for Kubernetes. In many ways, it does the opposite of Red Hat‘s Linux OpenShift, SUSE Rancher and other Kubernetes distributions. In all of these, Kubernetes is installed and runs on top of a general-purpose operating system.
Meet Whamm: The WebAssembly Instrumentation Framework
Every once in a while, a particularly interesting release or project is introduced at a larger conference amid zero marketing backing or by large, corporate-esque teams. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Elizabeth Gilbert, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, described a project called Whamm that really can work out of the box with one line of code. It does not replace, ameliorate or improve existing tools and processes but can actually do things that have not properly existed before.
How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry
How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry sponsor-catchpoint,sponsored-topic, Image by Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Organizations absolutely need to squeeze as much value out of their telemetry as they possibly can, for a number of reasons. Gathering telemetric data or observability is also a very tricky proposition, to say the least.
How Okta Scaled From 12 to 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters With Argo CD
How Okta Scaled From 12 to 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters With Argo CD Featured image by Alex Shuper for Unsplash+. ATLANTA — Let’s just say that Okta’s Auth0 platform customers for private cloud weren’t getting what they likely wanted. Okta’s support was problematic at best, especially for those customers at scale. This led to a decision to take a huge bet on open source for GitOps, specifically the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD (previously called Argo Workflows).
Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF
Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF Photo by An Lê Khánh on Unsplash. ATLANTA — Broadcom used KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA to allay fears that it was pulling back on its support for open source, highlighting ongoing backing for VMware-developed projects and unveiling further contributions to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem?
The so-called “DevOps practitioner” can be a developer, an operations team member, a site reliability engineer or a business stakeholder. What they all have in common is that they must be able to interpret telemetry data in order to make business decisions. What they face is sprawl, siloed teams, and cost concerns. Add to the list making sure heavy investments in observability are at least paying for themselves.
Has Grafana Taken Lead in AI for Observability?
Grafana Labs has integrated AI support into its observability platform and panel, offering practical improvements to the observability experience. Whether Grafana is surging ahead of the observability vendor pack or not depends on how one measures the different vendors’ offerings. Providers currently hold diverging philosophies on how best to use AI for observability. DataDog’s AI is very much dependent and built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) agents.
Conformant Kubernetes Update Availability Varies Significantly Across Services
Organizations often want to integrate the latest Kubernetes features or security upgrades as soon as possible. However, ReveCom’s analysis shows a lag of 2 to ~7 months between the release of Kubernetes updates by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and their general availability through Kubernetes platforms from on-premises cloud infrastructure providers or hyperscalers.
Set Up Talos Linux on Your Machine
Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux is not an orthodox Linux distro. It’s designed to offer a refreshing alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments. It can be argued that it does the opposite of Red Hat’s Linux OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, and other Kubernetes distributions. In all of these, Kubernetes is installed and runs on top of a general-purpose operating system.
Open Source Talos Linux: Bringing Simplicity to Kubernetes
Disclosure: Sidero Labs paid for the author’s travel and lodging to TalosCon. The last few years have seen a huge shift from the public cloud to on-premises and private cloud infrastructure, thanks to a range of drivers — including skyrocketing costs and data sovereignty concerns. This is, in turn, having a major effect on Kubernetes management. Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux offers a refreshing alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments.
Fixes Required for Prometheus’ OpenTelemetry Integration
We have covered how there have been some conflicts between OpenTelemetry and Prometheus compatibility for a number of reasons. Much of this has to do with how Prometheus has been — and remains — a very tried and trusted open source metrics solution that preceded what OpenTelemetry has offered as an alternate way of standardization and other attributes that definitely shine for observability.
Why Your Observability Strategy Should Start With SLOs
Observability platforms often require highly skilled practitioners to make sense and use of those platforms. Ideally, a non-technical stakeholder would rely on monitoring, understanding problems or optimizations to make and then rely on the platform to do the rest of the work. For debugging, an AI-guided problem solver detects, updates and fixes the issue, and articulates the situation in such a way that the non-technical user can understand it.
OpenTelemetry Adoption Update: Rust, Prometheus and Other Speed Bumps
OpenTelemetry is arguably living up to its hype. The open source project for observability has evolved over the last few years to become the de facto standard of choice for a rapidly growing number of organizations in need of instrumenting applications and standardizing telemetry data. It is designed so that the data can be understood by different observability platforms and visualization and storage systems of your choice.
Why Google Cloud's OTLP Support Matters for Your Telemetry Pipeline
Google Cloud’s engineers have enabled Google Cloud Observability, and specifically Cloud Trace, to support the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) ingest for near-direct and more vendor-neutral ingestion of trace data. Now that users can send their trace data using OTLP via the Telemetry (OTLP) API, Google Cloud recommends this approach in many cases, including for users who anticipate high volumes of trace data when paired with the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Why Broadcom's Ubuntu Bet on VMware Will Delight Devs and Ops
It’s not often a vendor makes a choice that delights both the developer and operations sides of the house. But Broadcom’s decision to integrate Canonical Ubuntu directly into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) will likely solve several pain points for both communities when it comes to cloud native. For those who want to continue to rely on Photon OS (already available by default), Broadcom is expanding the choice for platform engineers and developers with Ubuntu OS.
Wasm 3.0: No Component Model and No 'Docker Moment'
Let’s just say Wasm 3.0 is an important release. And yet, the component model has not yet been completed. We can say that the great, widely anticipated “Docker moment” for WebAssembly has not yet been achieved. My idea of the “Docker moment” for WebAssembly refers to the now-famous tweet by Solomon Hykes, in which he said, to paraphrase, that if WASM+WASI had existed in 2008 and was finalized and in working order, then there would never have been a need for Docker in the first place.
How Dapr and WebAssembly Team Up for Microservices
Dapr’s distributed application runtime concept is simple, but enabling it is enormously complex (although its usage is simple). According to the project’s documentation, Dapr is designed to be portable and an event-driven runtime that’s geared for developers who are building stateless and stateful applications for the cloud edge, while using the languages and frameworks of their choice.
Why Agentic AI Orchestration Is Key To Managing AI Complexity
Over the last four years, Orkes has gained popularity for its ability to integrate data and microservices orchestration within a single platform. But its newer role — as a proper agentic AI to orchestrate enormously complex AI workflows — might be bringing Orkes to the forefront of the AI boom.
The Cyber Resilience Act: Fear, Confusion - And Reassurance
AMSTERDAM — If your organization generates revenue from open source software, whether directly or indirectly, you should at least be aware of the coming implications of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). While the CRA goes into effect in 2027, many organizations do not realize that the timeline for preparation is measured in months. This applies both to the legislation, which continues to be hashed out — adding to the confusion — and to knowing how to prepare for when it takes effect.
OpenSearch 3.2 Delivers Hybrid Search, Enhanced Observability Tools
AMSTERDAM — OpenSearch’s latest 3.2 release offers a good look not only at what’s available for its analytics and now increasingly observable capabilities, but how the project has grown and expanded following its donation to the Linux Foundation. Ongoing improvements to OpenSearch — a flexible open source data ingestion and analytics engine — cover testing, observability and faster and improved feedback for contributors.
AI Projects Aren’t Killing Open Source Because They Can’t Survive Without It
AMSTERDAM – AI is ostensibly a major cause of the severe downturn in employment prospects for computer science majors just coming out of college, as some companies believe that AI can replace junior developers. At the same time, AI-generated code is seen as the catalyst for an explosion in available code and pull requests in open source. This is a sign that we don’t need as many developers as in the past.
VCF 9 Gets MCP Support, GPU Optimization at No Extra Cost
Broadcom has expanded storage, security and compliance capabilities and has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support beyond just a perfunctory effort for its cloud infrastructure platform for the public and private cloud. By seeking to improve compliance, security and other challenges when making the leap to creating and implementing agentic AI into developer pipelines and operations, Broadcom is at least addressing rampant concerns in this new world of IT that organizations are articulating.
What Debugging JavaScript on WebAssembly Looks Like
WebAssembly (Wasm) debugging remains, understandably, a challenge for this relatively new and exciting technology that is still evolving. Originally designed for the browser, it functions well in that environment, especially for debugging web applications from within another browser. Emscripten, as the toolchain compiler and extensions built in Firefox and Chrome, offers reasonably reliable debugging for Wasm running in the browser.
Honeycomb’s Concept for AI Observability: Integrate Cursor With Your MCP
Honeycomb has created a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for observability that represents an ambitious concept, as observability expands both its usage and intelligence. At the same time, it takes the obvious step of figuring out how to integrate observability through its MCP. Honeycomb integrates your AI model of choice — such as Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop or VS Code — directly into the IDE.
Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Just Couldn't Get Along
Prometheus was long the de facto standard for metrics in observability. Then came VictoriaMetrics, originally a fork of Prometheus, and Grafana’s Mimir, a newer metrics backend designed for scalability. As OpenTelemetry matured, it introduced a unified standard for metrics, logs and traces — appearing to compete with Prometheus in the metrics space. But this competition was only surface-level. Prometheus now integrates well with OpenTelemetry and remains a core part of the ecosystem.
Endor: Fire up a Dev Environment in Seconds With WebAssembly
Newly launched Endor allows developers to create reproducible, isolated testing environments in a few seconds instead of hours or days, thanks to WebAssembly’s lightning-fast speeds. This capability is especially important in the era of asking questions to ChatGPT, running agents and vibe coding, allowing developers to quickly and securely test that code, Endor’s developers say. Endor provides a way to do so both in the browser and the command line.
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