IBM Cloud: What is etcd?
Using Pixie, developers can view the high-level state of their cluster (service maps, cluster resources, application traffic) and also drill down into more detailed views (pod state, flame graphs) without having to modify or redeploy their code.
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Michelle Nguyen, Pixie maintainer, explains how Pixie provides instant Kubernetes observability, and the internals of how it works.
We cover how Pixie uses eBPF to collect telemetry without code instrumentation, what it captures (protocol tracing, resource metrics, application CPU profiles), how data stays in-cluster for privacy, and when to use Pixie alongside OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Watch now → youtu.be/hZ-a72ggR…
#Pixie #Kubernetes #eBPF #CNCF #Observability
Surveys have shown that less than 2% of people one or two layers around you as a leader understand what the priorities are.
Julia Hoggett, the London Stock Exchange CEO, says she spends a third of her time constantly creating this clarity. When people feel responsible for an outcome, magic can happen.
Jana Werner wrote The Octopus Organization after interviewing 70 executives.
Find out what separates the adaptive ones from the rigid ones: www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/116
#Leadership #OrganizationalDesign #TechLeadership #Management
KubeCon Europe: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
Coming soon! Join me and my illustrious guest Lin Sun (Head of Open Source at Solo.io, CNCF TOC member, and Kagent co-creator) for an ⚡️ Enlightning livestream about kagent! I can’t wait!
Click ‘notify me’: www.youtube.com/live/SjiF…
Goofin’ w David Faircloth, VP of Architecture and Engineering at Wendy’s, at Google Cloud Next
ヘ( ^o^)ノ＼(^_^ )
DevOps Paradox: KubeCon EU 2026 Review
DevOps Paradox: KubeCon EU 2026 Review
OpenFGA: Relationship-Based Authorization at Scale
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Raghd Hamzeh, OpenFGA maintainer at Auth0, explains relationship-based authorization. When Whitney shares a document with Raghd, you tell OpenFGA “Raghd is now an editor of this document.” Later, when Raghd tries to access it, OpenFGA already knows . There are no database calls, and there is no runtime logic. We cover how OpenFGA differs from RBAC and attribute-based systems, why sharing becomes trivially easy, how immutable authorization models let you test changes against production data safely, and what auditability looks like when permissions live outside your application code.
KubeCon Europe: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
KubeCon North America: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
AI for the Rest of Us: How to Trust a Liar: Instrumenting AI Execution with OpenTelemetry
Edera: Cloud Native Quizmas Clash
🌩️ Thunder: Managing Secrets in Configuration Files with SOPS
Software Defined Interviews: AI Tools Lab, conferences, devrel, with Jason Hand
Logging Operator: Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Logging
In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Peter Wilcsinszky, maintainer of Logging Operator, explains how the project’s Flow and Output custom resources bring Kubernetes-native control to log routing.
During the holiday break I went on a waterfall tour of the Chattahoochie National Forest in North Georgia ♫
Transformation, DevOps, Open Source, and Fast Food Operations, with Andrew Clay Shafer
It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews podcast! Andrew Clay Shafer — co-founder of Puppet and someone who’s spent 15 years helping organizations transform — has a theory. True transformation only happens under one of two conditions: an inspired leader with enough social capital to push through change, or an existential crisis so obvious that everyone in the building knows they have to do things differently. Do you agree? Have a listen.
Fluent Bit Explained: Data Pipelines for Observability
Check out this new 🌩️ Thunder where Eduardo Silva, creator and maintainer of Fluent Bit, discusses the evolution of cloud native logging.
The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies
It is a new episode of the Software Defined Interviews podcast! Russell Davies has blogged for 20 years, made a TikTok every day for months, and written multiple books. When Coté and I asked how he stays so prolific, his answer surprised me: “I have quite low standards.”