# cluster (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 153 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cluster. Page: Feed: --- ## [Which Platforms Help With Kubernetes Deployment Without the Overhead?](https://www.qovery.com/blog/kubernetes-deployment-platforms-without-overhead) _2026-08-23 · romaric · Qovery Blog_ A direct comparison of the platforms that reduce Kubernetes operational overhead - managed distributions, GitOps tools, and internal developer platforms - and how to pick the right layer for your team size. ## [God Packages and Other Slow Failures](https://imti.co/go-architecture-ratchet/) _2026-08-22 · IMTI_ Function-level lint cannot see a god package. gocyclo at 10, funlen at 80, revive's argument limits: all of those look inside one function. Two hundred methods of complexity 8 on one type is legal. After six months of agents on txn2/mcp-data-platform , Platform had 265 of them and gocyclo had never failed. An agent rereads the tree at the start of every session, with a finite context window. A… ## [Webb Opens Treasure Chest](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/webb-opens-a-treasure-chest-filled-with-stars/) _2026-08-21 · NASA Image of the Day_ This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month takes us to a fantastical realm within our home galaxy, where piercing starlight and billowing winds sculpt dust clouds into inventive shapes. This scene is from the Carina Nebula, which lies just 7500 light-years away in the constellation Carina (the Keel). ## [Cloud Migration Providers: Comparing Systems Integrators, Dev Shops, and Self-Service Platforms](https://www.qovery.com/blog/cloud-migration-providers-comparison) _2026-08-21 · melanie · Qovery Blog_ Three ways to run a cloud migration compared: systems integrators, dev-shop staff augmentation, and self-service PaaS platforms like Qovery. How to choose. ## [DJI Osmo Pocket 4P – Windows Wireless File Transfer](https://blog.intermit.tech/2026/08/dji-osmo-pocket-4p-windows-wireless-file-transfer.html/) _2026-08-20 · quindor@quindorian.org · Intermittent Technology_ I bought a DJI Osmo Pocket 4P and wanted to use the built-in WiFi 6 filetransfer capabilities to send my recording to my Windows PC. Turns out, you can only send it to the phone app and there is no Windows functionality available. Utterly useless and unforgivable in 2026. Luckily, some smart people have decoded … Continue reading DJI Osmo Pocket 4P – Windows Wireless File Transfer → The post DJI… ## [Artemis Mission Patches](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1304/) _2026-08-20 · NASA Image of the Day_ A NASA jacket containing Artemis I and II mission patches, along with other NASA patches hangs on the back of a chair on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, inside Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a terminal countdown simulation for the Artemis III mission. ## [Do Cross-References Help LLM Agents Complete Documents?](https://imti.co/graph-completion-benchmark/) _2026-08-20 · IMTI_ mcp-data-platform exposes knowledge as wiki-style pages. An agent talking to it over MCP can search them and fetch them, and the pages can point at each other the way an internal wiki does. The server is txn2/mcp-data-platform , also hosted as Plexara . The previous note measured knowledge pollution after a curation gate. This one is about cross-references. The agent is writing a change plan, or… ## [Ancient Milky Way Merger](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kz4n4d8g9ak26cf28hd5nt5n-d2d764/) _2026-08-19 · NASA Image of the Day_ About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters. ## [The Talos Linux Cluster API providers are moving to community maintenance](https://www.siderolabs.com/blog/talos-linux-capi-community-maintenance/) _2026-08-19 · Sterling Koch · Sidero Labs_ Sidero Labs is moving the Talos Linux Cluster API providers to community maintenance. The code stays open source and nothing breaks. ## [Infrastructure Automation Tools Comparison: Provisioning vs. Orchestration Layer](https://www.qovery.com/blog/infrastructure-automation-tools-comparison) _2026-08-19 · melanie · Qovery Blog_ Infrastructure automation tools by layer: provisioning (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CDK, Crossplane) vs. orchestration (Spacelift, env0, Scalr, Qovery). ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pk3fJPf0u3xe) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [Warhammer 40k: Ciaphas Cain Novels](https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/ciaphas-cain-books/) _2026-08-18 · ln --help_ My review of the Ciaphas Cain series of novels by Sandy Mitchell ## [NASA's B777 Gets New Coat of Paint](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e407303/) _2026-08-18 · NASA Image of the Day_ NASA's Boeing 777 returns to the agency's Langley Research Center after receiving a new paint scheme. ## [ChillPill Freebie Kit-VelvetNerves](https://whimsicalfaerie.com/blog/chillpill-freebie-kit-velvetnerves/) _2026-08-18 · ENCHANTED SCRAPS · Enchanted Scraps_ I love this kit and I hope you will too. It’s dark. It’s funny because it has... ## [Hyperscalers vs. Utilities: The Fight Over Minimum Bills, Exit Fees, and Collateral](https://measuredai.substack.com/p/hyperscalers-vs-utilities) _2026-08-18 · Corey Trinetti · Measured AI_ What Amazon, Google, and Oracle's public power agreements reveal about a tougher utility playbook — and who bears the risk when gigawatt-scale demand falls short. ## [How (Not) to Photograph a Solar Eclipse](https://adfr.io/thoughts/20260818_how_not_to_photograph_a_solar_eclipse/) _2026-08-18 · Frank Adler :: Astrophotography & Web Engineering_ A new telescope, an improvised solar filter, very little time - and one wrong recording mode. My attempt to capture the August 12 solar eclipse didn't quite go as planned, but after a lot of manual work I still ended up with a timelapse and a useful reminder: don't learn new equipment during an event you can't repeat. ## [Full Control Over Permissions, Welcome API Policy Tokens](https://www.qovery.com/blog/full-control-over-permissions-welcome-opa) _2026-08-18 · alessandro · Qovery Blog_ API Policy Tokens let you control what a Qovery token can do action by action, using OPA and Rego, so an agent or script never gets more access than the one job it was built for. ## [Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebula](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/30dor-crop/) _2026-08-17 · NASA Image of the Day_ Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes. The resulting cosmic “craft” reveals new details about the star formation region known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula. ## [CNPG Recipe 27 - Running OpenBao on Kubernetes with a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL backend](https://www.gabrielebartolini.it/articles/2026/08/cnpg-recipe-27-running-openbao-on-kubernetes-with-a-cloudnativepg-postgresql-backend/) _2026-08-17 · Unleashing the Power of Postgres in Kubernetes_ A walkthrough of running OpenBao on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG as its PostgreSQL storage backend. Every layer of this stack is open source, with no vendor lock-in: Kubernetes and CloudNativePG are both CNCF projects, authenticated entirely over TLS client certificates via the 1.30 DatabaseRole CRD, with no passwords anywhere in the stack. Co-authored with Rob Kenefeck from ControlPlane . ## [6 Best Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps Tools in 2026](https://www.qovery.com/blog/best-cloud-cost-optimization-finops-tools) _2026-08-17 · melanie · Qovery Blog_ Compare the top cloud cost optimization and FinOps tools - Vantage, nOps, CloudZero, CloudAware, PointFive, and Qovery - across spend visibility, Kubernetes rightsizing, and migration cost control. ## [Knowledge Pollution: Verification Displacement, Capability, and the Price of a Curation Gate](https://imti.co/knowledge-pollution-benchmark/) _2026-08-17 · IMTI_ Agents on mcp-data-platform write notes during a session. A reviewer promotes the good ones. Later sessions search them. That is the knowledge loop the platform was built around, over MCP , in the open at txn2/mcp-data-platform and hosted as Plexara . The earlier posts in this series asked whether the layer helps and when agents use what it stores . This one is the case I had not priced. A… ## [Prime Noise-Cancelling Picks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CdtCGJqw0F7h) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Browse Prime-eligible, 4-star-and-up noise-cancelling earbuds with fast shipping and deals ## [Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools](https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/) _2026-08-16 · Quantum · Quantum_ My experience fixing my Framework 13" laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support. ## [The Triangulum Galaxy](https://adfr.io/astro/20260813_m33/) _2026-08-16 · Frank Adler :: Astrophotography & Web Engineering_ Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy , is one of our closest galactic neighbours. Located approximately 2.7 million light-years away in the ... ## [A GPU Has More Than One Depreciation Curve](https://fullhoffman.com/2026/08/16/a-gpu-has-more-than-one-depreciation-curve/) _2026-08-16 · jason · Jason A. Hoffman_ Jason A. Hoffman, PhD | August 16, 2026 On my desk is a desktop with an RTX 2080 that is fine. A Titan in an external enclosure still gives a laptop the offload I ask of it. Plenty of people still game on a 1080 Ti. None of these devices became slower because NVIDIA shipped \[…\] ## [8 Cloud Governance Automation Tools for Multi-Cloud Kubernetes in 2026](https://www.qovery.com/blog/cloud-governance-automation-tools) _2026-08-16 · morgan · Qovery Blog_ Compare cloud governance automation tools for multi-cloud Kubernetes across policy enforcement, SOC 2 and HIPAA automation, multi-cloud coverage, and CI/CD integration. ## [elpacman -- a command-line package manager for Emacs](https://dnaeon.github.io/elpacman/) _2026-08-16 · Marin Atanasov Nikolov_ My home lab machines are running a mix of GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS and over the years I have accumulated a decent amount of shell scripts and tools, which eventually got refined as my personal Configuration Management system for keeping these systems up-to-date and sync configs between them easily. Years ago I used to be managing all that using tools like CFEngine, Puppet, Ansible, etc. These… ## [Dragonfruit Dream-kit](https://whimsicalfaerie.com/blog/dragonfruit-dream-kit/) _2026-08-14 · ENCHANTED SCRAPS · Enchanted Scraps_ Hi! Little freebie (personal use) scrap kit for you. Dedicated to my granddaughter Evey and my daughter... ## [CU Freebie-MD August blogtrain](https://whimsicalfaerie.com/blog/cu-freebie-md-august-blogtrain/) _2026-08-14 · ENCHANTED SCRAPS · Enchanted Scraps_ This is my part of the CU blogtrain for August (Magickal Dreamers). Keep riding the train at... ## [Ghostty as a Shell for Herdr](https://suraj.io/post/2026/ghostty-as-a-shell-for-herdr/) _2026-08-14 · Suraj Deshmukh_ Strip Ghostty down to a dumb container and send every iTerm2-style shortcut straight to Herdr, no prefix key required. ## [Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/2026-total-solar-eclipse-3/) _2026-08-14 · NASA Image of the Day_ This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. ## [Some post summer updates](https://fredrickb.com/2026/08/14/some-post-summer-updates/) _2026-08-14 · Fredrick Biering_ Summer is over, took a break from the homelab and OSS projects. Came back to a large set of updates on the Proxmox hosts and a few PRs in calico-flow-logs-otlphttp-exporter (I’m starting to regret the name when having to spell it all out). Proxmox Since I don’t have a good solution for replicated storage for VMs I drain the K3s node VMs on each Proxmox host before rebooting after kernel updates.… ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q030YGcAEHJL) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [When Three Kubernetes Pods Try to Run One Database Migration](https://www.sahansera.dev/when-three-kubernetes-pods-try-to-run-one-database-migration/) _2026-08-14 · sahansera.dev RSS Feed_ Three replicas raced the same Prisma migration. A PostgreSQL advisory lock coordinator fixes it when your platform cannot run a pre-deploy Job. ## [A GPU Hour Is Not a Barrel of Oil](https://fullhoffman.com/2026/08/13/a-gpu-hour-is-not-a-barrel-of-oil/) _2026-08-13 · jason · Jason A. Hoffman_ Jason A. Hoffman, PhD August 13, 2026 Compute is the new oil again. Before that it was the new electricity. Before that, cloud computing was supposed to become a commodity traded on neutral exchanges. The latest version is more concrete. CME Group and Silicon Data plan to launch two cash-settled futures contracts on October \[ \] ## [Perseids Meteor Shower](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/perseidsorion-2/) _2026-08-13 · NASA Image of the Day_ The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors on Aug. 12, 2018, in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah. ## [The Data Machine Must Grow](https://www.technowizardry.net/2026/08/linkedin-wants-my-face/) _2026-08-13 · Techno Wizardry_ It finally happened to me. I dared to log into my LinkedIn account and update my job status because I left my job. I dared to update LinkedIn while I was on vacation in Hawaii. When I tried to login, I found my account locked for security and they just needed a quick peek at my government ID to make sure I’m legit. Don’t worry, only LinkedIn and Persona have access they say. Ah yes,… ## [Scaling an Agentic Coding SDK: What Concurrency Actually Costs](https://www.sahansera.dev/scaling-an-agentic-coding-sdk-what-concurrency-actually-costs/) _2026-08-13 · sahansera.dev RSS Feed_ Running agent jobs in parallel is not free. Measuring the real memory, process and shared-state costs of concurrency in an agentic coding SDK. ## [2026 Total Solar Eclipse in Spain](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/2026-total-solar-eclipse-2/) _2026-08-12 · NASA Image of the Day_ A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. ## [Google's Wyoming Data Centers: A 1.8 GW AI Campus Powered by a Gas Fleet It Doesn't Own](https://measuredai.substack.com/p/google-wyoming-data-centers) _2026-08-12 · Corey Trinetti · Measured AI_ Google takes control of a Crusoe-launched 716-acre, 3.08-million-square-foot Cheyenne campus with four data centers, a 42-turbine natural gas fleet, fuel cells, and $7+ billion in power investment. ## [On-Prem GPUs in a Boring Kubernetes Cluster](https://imti.co/on-prem-gpus-kubernetes/) _2026-08-12 · IMTI_ The clearest reason to put your own hardware in the hybrid cluster is the GPU. Sustained AI work on rented cloud GPUs runs up a large bill, and a GPU you own pays for itself quickly when you actually use it. This is the final piece of the platform, and it is what makes the optional in-cluster AI, self-hosted model inference and embeddings, affordable: adding GPUs to Kubernetes, the modern way,… ## [Lion Nebula Roars in Webb's Sights](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01kx6d0xbhsyp7q1em5qtc43rp/) _2026-08-11 · NASA Image of the Day_ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.” ## [On Naming the Quantity](https://fullhoffman.com/2026/08/11/on-naming-the-quantity/) _2026-08-11 · jason · Jason A. Hoffman_ Jason A. Hoffman, PhD Someone tells you a number: a hundred petaFLOP/s, a million tokens, ninety percent utilized. The first question is never whether the number is right. It is which quantity the number describes. Most disagreements about computing infrastructure are people quoting different quantities at each other, and the confusion survives because the units \[ \] ## [NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir Uses VR Goggles](https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/iss075e0000191/) _2026-08-10 · NASA Image of the Day_ NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 commander Jessica Meir wears a set of virtual reality goggles, also called the Nevada Screening Vision System, for a test that measures visual function using a series of vision screening apps testing visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and more. ## [CT-CharmedDesigns-CocoaInAutumn](https://whimsicalfaerie.com/blog/ct-charmeddesigns-cocoainautumn/) _2026-08-10 · ENCHANTED SCRAPS · Enchanted Scraps_ Today I am creating with a wonderful rich autumn scrap kit by Charmed Designs. Rich tones of... ## [Jira and Linear Are Now a Trigger Into Your Governed Infrastructure](https://www.qovery.com/blog/stop-leaving-the-ticket-agent-triggers-for-jira-and-linear) _2026-08-10 · alessandro · Qovery Blog_ Agent Triggers extend Qovery's control plane to a new entry point: a ticket. Tag it on Jira or assign it on Linear, and it triggers the execution of a governed environment on your own infrastructure, where an agent performs whatever action it's configured for, given the context of that ticket, under the same guardrails as any other workload. ## [Build a Safe Repository Maintenance Agent with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework in .NET](https://www.sahansera.dev/safe-repository-maintenance-agent-dotnet/) _2026-08-10 · sahansera.dev RSS Feed_ Giving an AI agent access to a repository takes only a few lines of code. Giving it useful access without silently approving every command… ## [Build a Safe Repository Maintenance Agent with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework in Python](https://www.sahansera.dev/safe-repository-maintenance-agent-python/) _2026-08-10 · sahansera.dev RSS Feed_ In the .NET tutorial , we built a repository agent that could inspect a checkout, propose a one-line repair, run its tests, and report the… ## [One Cluster Across Clouds and Your Garage: Hybrid k3s With WireGuard](https://imti.co/hybrid-k3s-wireguard-cluster/) _2026-08-10 · IMTI_ The platform so far runs on a set of cloud virtual machines, and that is the right default. But some of the most useful hardware you can put a workload on is not in a cloud: a GPU box in your office, a server in a colo, devices at the edge near where data is produced, machines you already own and are not paying a cloud margin on. The cloud answer to mixing these is a separate managed cluster in… ## [Homelab](https://shanedowling.com/homelab/) _2026-08-09 · Shane Dowling_ I used to write periodic homelab update posts but they’d go stale almost immediately. So instead, I’m just going to keep this page current. It’s the state of things as of the last updated date at the bottom. Everything is managed via a private Git repo with FluxCD handling the GitOps side of things. The Hardware It’s a 5-node K3s cluster, all sitting under my desk. A mix of… ## [Why I switched to Astro but not WordPress](https://zaher.dev/blog/why-i-switched-to-astro/) _2026-08-08 · Zaher Ghaibeh · Zaher's Blog_ In this post, I'll explain my reasons for switching to Astro instead of using WordPress. ## [The Scientific Evidence for Preferring Coke Zero, and What Preferring Diet Coke Says About You](https://fullhoffman.com/2026/08/07/coke-zero-vs-diet-coke/) _2026-08-08 · jason · Jason A. Hoffman_ Jason A. Hoffman, PhD You may have this same division among your friends and family. At my table it runs between Diet Coke and Coke Zero: a friend drinks the first, I drink the second, and both of us believe the science is on our side. So I went and read the science. A disclosure \[ \] ## [What Happened to the Blockchain Chapter](https://imti.co/what-happened-to-blockchain-chapter/) _2026-08-08 · IMTI_ The 2020 book had a chapter on Blockchain. It built a private Ethereum network on Kubernetes, miners and all, and it was one of the more involved chapters in the book. This rebuild does not have that chapter, and rather than quietly drop it, I want to account for why, because the reasons are a useful lesson in betting on technology and in telling the difference between a capability and a fashion.