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Kubernetes v1.34: Enabling Smarter Traffic Routing With PreferSameNode and PreferSameZone (Fri, 07 Nov 2025)
Kubernetes has steadily evolved into an industry standard for container orchestration, powering platforms from small developer clusters to hyperscale AI and data infrastructures. Every new release introduces features that not only make workloads easier to manage but also improve performance, cost efficiency, and resilience. With the v1.34 release, one of the standout enhancements is the introduction of traffic distribution preferences for Kubernetes Services. Specifically:
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Beyond Dashboards: How Autonomous AI Agents Are Redefining Enterprise Analytics (Fri, 07 Nov 2025)
The field of data analytics is going through the biggest change since business intelligence platforms were first introduced. Agentic AI — "intelligent systems that perceive, reason, plan, and act on their own" — is changing the way businesses get information and make choices. Generative AI only responds to prompts, but agentic systems work on their own, going after complex goals with little human oversight. They also have persistent memory and can adapt to new situations. This change marks a shift from reactive analytics to proactive intelligence. Companies are moving away from static dashboards and manual analysis cycles in favor of self-driving systems that monitor data, find insights, and make decisions. The market is expected to be worth $196.6 billion by 2034, and 62% of executives expect a return on investment of more than 100%. This change is transitioning from small-scale tests to large-scale deployments, which significantly impact how businesses operate.
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Prompt Engineering vs Context Engineering (Fri, 07 Nov 2025)
As AI integration becomes standard in modern applications, developers face a very critical decision: How do we effectively communicate with large language models (LLMs) to get reliable and accurate results? The answer lies in understanding two distinct  but often confused approaches: prompt engineering and context engineering. While these terms are frequently used interchangeably, they represent fundamentally different strategies for working with AI systems. Understanding their differences is important for building robust and production-ready applications that leverage LLMs effectively.
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How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team? (Fri, 07 Nov 2025)
The role of a Scrum Master is to establish Scrum, and the Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team’s effectiveness. Thus, it is quite tempting to ask how a Scrum Master can help improve the productivity of the development team. But, in a complex working environment like software development, productivity is often not the right measure to showcase all the complexities of software developers’ knowledge work.        In simple working environments, productivity means a ratio of output to input. The traditional idea is to know how much is achieved (output) with a given amount of resources (inputs), largely in numbers, and the focus is on maximizing the output. That’s why, in traditional project management of software development projects, stakeholders evaluate the development team’s productivity based on the lines of code. Or, even today in Agile project management, stakeholders with a traditional mindset ask for the number of story points per iteration, known as Sprint Velocity.   
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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