Kelsey Hightower shares his views on AI, open source sustainability, and career resilience for engineers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being reproduced here with the author's permission.This 2,800-word essay (a 12-minute read) is

GraphQL adoption is set to double by 2027. Explore the operational shifts required for enterprise scale, including query complexity analysis.

If you work in data engineering or platform operations, the question is no longer whether Iceberg is the right foundation.

🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded the "Madaraka Express" on Madaraka Day (1 June 2017), the 54th anniversary of Kenya's attainment of self-rule from Great

Last night I dreamt I was merging onto a rushing freeway. My on-ramp was far too short, a concrete embankment hemmed me in to the right. Faceless, speeding vehicles filled the lanes; integrating wi…

Bell Labs "created many of the foundational innovations of the modern age," writes Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — from transistors and telecommunications satellites to Unix and the C programming language. But what was the secr...

The R&D organization had an outsize influence on 20th-century technologies. What was the secret to its success?

Posted on Friday 20 Mar 2026. 899 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

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A digital garden on the open web.

Introduction: When Mathematics Met Malware In February 1989, a remarkable paper appeared in the pages of Computers & Security, a leading journal in

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Programming is an art. It’s less like fine art or music and closer to architecture or carpentry – combining form and function – but it is an art. If you don’t believe me, consider code …

Not a month goes by without someone claiming they’ve killed tech writing. A few weeks ago, it was CodeWiki and its docs theatre. Now it’s the turn of Claude Skills and their ecosystem of Markdown instructions served as if they were executable code or macros. Docs, though, are tougher than they’d expect, because they’re the strongest signals in a sea of noise, and because they’re pretty much everywhere. Including, well, skills.

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Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

Where we are right now, and what likely happens next

Posted on Thursday 12 Mar 2026. 1,380 words, 17 links. By Matt Webb.

We understand the impact outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.

GitHub’s been taking it on the chin on the availability front lately. Yesterday, their CTO, Vlad Fedorov, wrote a post on their blog about their recent incidents: Addressing GitHub’s recent a…

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Shadow IT isn’t a visibility problem. It’s an identity failure. If devices can authenticate, your system is allowing what you think you’re detecting.