.NET Aspire 10, released alongside .NET 10, represents Microsoft’s answer to the complexity of cloud-native development. It provides an opinionated, orchestrated approach to building distributed applications with built-in service discovery, health checks, telemetry, and deployment automation. This comprehensive guide explores Aspire’s architecture, the developer experience improvements in version 10, and patterns for deploying Aspire applications […]
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Ingress NGINX Deprecation: Complete Migration Guide to Kubernetes Gateway API
In January 2026, the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees issued a critical warning: Ingress NGINX will cease receiving security patches from March 2026. With approximately 50% of cloud-native environments relying on this controller, this deprecation represents one of the most significant infrastructure migrations in Kubernetes history. This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step migration path […]
Read more →Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resource Updates and AI Model Image Volumes
Kubernetes 1.35, released in January 2026 and now supported on Amazon EKS and EKS Distro, marks a significant milestone in container orchestration—particularly for AI/ML workloads. This release introduces In-Place Pod Resource Updates, allowing you to resize CPU and memory without restarting pods, and Image Volumes, a game-changer for delivering large AI models using OCI container […]
Read more →Security as Code: Why the Best DevSecOps Teams Treat Vulnerabilities Like Bugs, Not Afterthoughts
The first time I watched a security vulnerability slip through our CI/CD pipeline and make it to production, I felt the same sinking feeling every engineer knows: that moment when you realize the system you trusted has a blind spot. It was 2019, and we had what we thought was a mature DevOps practice. Automated […]
Read more →Why Kafka Became the Backbone of Modern Data Architecture: Lessons from Building Event-Driven Systems at Scale
When LinkedIn open-sourced Kafka in 2011, few predicted it would become the de facto standard for real-time data streaming. Fourteen years later, Kafka processes trillions of messages daily across organizations of every size, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Having architected event-driven systems for over two decades, I’ve watched Kafka evolve from an interesting alternative […]
Read more →Azure Container Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Serverless Containers
Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s serverless container platform, offering Kubernetes-like capabilities without cluster management complexity, powered by KEDA auto-scaling and native Dapr integration. Container Apps Architecture Platform Comparison Key Features Feature Description Use Case Revisions Immutable snapshots of app version Blue-green, canary deployments Traffic Splitting Route % traffic to different revisions A/B testing, gradual rollouts […]
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