Physical AI took a real step forward this week, while Azure spent its energy on the less glamorous work of making existing services more complete: keys that no longer need wrapping, a gateway that finally speaks IPv6 properly, and locks…
64% of organisations use the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to manage workload capacity, and most of those autoscaling policies scale on exactly one signal: CPU or memory utilisation. Only 20% scale on anything else. The other 80% inherited a default…
Five stories this week, and remarkably few of them are about doing more. AWS gave Kubernetes clusters an undo button, Microsoft detailed the AI system that already decides whether you are having an outage, and Google Cloud picked up a…
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…
Riot Games cut $10 million from its annual infrastructure bill by moving from a self-managed Mesosphere environment to Amazon EKS with Karpenter. That figure makes headlines, and rightly so. What gets less attention is that a comparable savings opportunity is…
It has been a busy week across the major clouds, with announcements spanning AI agent infrastructure, Kubernetes performance, database architecture, and a heavyweight statement of intent from Microsoft on the European market. Underneath the noise, there is a clear theme:…
Cloud providers are offering up to 91% off on-demand compute prices, and most engineering teams are leaving that money on the table. Not because they lack awareness (Spot Instances, Azure Spot VMs, and GCP Spot VMs are well-publicised), but because…
Only 5% of cloud engineers contribute to open source projects, yet these engineers receive 38% more interview requests, command 15-25% higher compensation, and advance to senior roles 2-3 years faster than their peers. While the most rigorous academic study found…
Observability specialists in the UK now command a median salary of £80,000, representing a 14% premium over general DevOps engineers and an 18% premium over cloud engineers. More striking still, senior observability roles at the 90th percentile reach £130,000, a…
Kubernetes has achieved 96% enterprise adoption, yet 55% of Azure Kubernetes Service implementations fail their initial production readiness reviews. These failures cost organisations £100K-£500K in remediation work, delayed launches, and emergency architectural redesigns. The gap between “running Kubernetes” and “running…
