Twenty-eight per cent of working adults in Great Britain were hybrid workers between January and March 2025, according to the Office for National Statistics, and the proportion has climbed steadily since March 2022. That single figure understates the architectural problem…
Across more than 23,000 production Kubernetes clusters running AI workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP, average measured GPU utilisation was just 5 percent. On AKS specifically, it averaged just 2 percent. That figure comes from Cast AI’s 2026 State of…
From 12 January 2027, cloud providers may no longer impose switching charges on EU customers for moving to another provider or back on-premise, and that prohibition expressly includes egress fees. Standard service fees and proportionate early termination penalties sit outside…
By 2029, Gartner predicts that more than 75 percent of operations processed in untrusted infrastructure will be secured in-use by confidential computing, up from a small fraction today. That forecast is not a marketing claim from a TEE vendor. It…
The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report, drawn from organisations responsible for over $69 billion of cloud spend, found that only a small minority of organisations have reached “Run” maturity, with the majority still at “Walk” or “Crawl” stage.…
Roughly half of all cloud-native environments run community ingress-nginx, a number cited by internal Datadog research and acknowledged by the Kubernetes Steering Committee itself. As of March 2026, the community ingress-nginx project is retired and no longer receiving upstream bug…
Eighty-two per cent of organisations running containers now run Kubernetes in production, according to the CNCF Annual Survey released in January 2026. That figure is up from 66 per cent in 2023 and is routinely cited as evidence that Kubernetes…
Catchpoint’s SRE Report 2025, now in its seventh year of tracking the profession, reported something unexpected: operational toil rose for the first time in five years. Median toil time across 301 site reliability practitioners climbed from 25% to 30% of…
Most teams treat Lambda cold starts as a performance problem to be fixed. The more experienced position is to treat them as a design constraint to be managed, and to be precise about which functions actually need managing. According to…
The caching product most Azure architects are designing around has a published end-of-life date. Azure Cache for Redis, across all tiers from Basic to Enterprise Flash, is being retired. Enterprise and Enterprise Flash retire on 31 March 2027, with remaining…
