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Google Cloud publishes a six-phase playbook for its own outages

Google Cloud has documented a five-step Verify to Review loop, plus a Prepare phase, for how customers should respond when its own services fall over. The guidance tells you which of its consoles to check first.

Sep 17, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Runners & infrastructure

GitHub says 2.9 billion commits a month, and CI is the downstream tenant

The New Stack puts GitHub's monthly load at 2.9 billion commits, 130 million merged pull requests and 24 million new repositories, and reports the platform is straining under it. For teams running on Actions, that is a queue-depth story more than a growth story.

Aug 21, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

Where the controller-runtime cache bites you: stale reads, missing indexes, unbounded watches

A revised kubernetes.io deep dive walks through the local cache every kubebuilder-based controller depends on. The operational read: r.Get and r.List never touch the API server, and that is where a class of quiet controller bugs actually lives.

Aug 8, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

After the ingress-NGINX retirement, what your migration plan owes production

The Kubernetes SIG Network retired ingress-nginx in March 2026, leaving clusters still on it exposed to unpatched CVEs and stalled feature work. A CNCF post lays out the two migration paths operators are picking between and the tooling to make the move.

Jul 11, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

etcd v3.7 adds a streaming range API and drops the legacy v2 store

SIG etcd shipped v3.7.0 with a RangeStream API that chunks large read responses instead of buffering them, plus faster lease handling under load and the removal of the legacy v2 backing store. Kubernetes will expose the feature in v1.37 behind a gate.

Jul 9, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Incident response

Survey: 93% of large North-American IT shops have hit an AI-coding incident

A poll of 406 IT decision makers at North American organizations with more than 250 employees finds nearly all of them have logged at least one infrastructure incident attributable to AI coding tools, a number CI/CD owners can quote when arguing for tighter merge gates on agent-generated changes.

Jun 29, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

Flipkart's chaos platform runs 90% of fault injection in staging, ships five fixes back to LitmusChaos

Flipkart's central reliability engineering team won the CNCF End User Case Study contest for a multi-tenant chaos engineering platform on Kubernetes that runs roughly 90% of its experiments in staging clusters and contributed five fixes upstream to LitmusChaos. The next step on the roadmap is to wire chaos testing into the CI/CD pipeline as a mandatory phase.

Jun 18, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Runners & infrastructure

GitHub Actions resumes self-hosted runner version enforcement

Self-hosted runners must register on 2.329.0 or later and install each new release within 30 days, with full enforcement landing September 25, 2026 on github.com. The change moves runner version management from a hygiene task into a fleet-inventory problem.

Jun 15, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo