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TFIR: “How CNCF Is Preparing Cloud-Native Projects for AI-First Developers | Alex Chircop”
TFIR: “How CNCF Is Preparing Cloud-Native Projects for AI-First Developers | Alex Chircop” December 19, 2025
Alex Chircop from Akamai explains how CNCF projects are evolving to support AI workloads, from Kubernetes GPU orchestration to open source infrastructure tooling.

The New Stack: “Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling”
The New Stack: “Kubernetes 1.35 “Timbernetes” Introduces Vertical Scaling” December 17, 2025
This release also features 60 enhancements, including a specialized KYAML format and gang scheduling for AI workloads, while phasing out legacy components like Ingress Nginx and cgroup v1.

Network World: “Kubernetes 1.35 enables zero-downtime resource scaling for production cloud workloads”
Network World: “Kubernetes 1.35 enables zero-downtime resource scaling for production cloud workloads” December 17, 2025
Kubernetes 1.35, dubbed ‘Treenetes,’ delivers in-place pod resource adjustments, a capability that benefits AI training workloads and edge computing deployments.

Help Net Security: “Prometheus: Open-source metrics and monitoring systems and services”
Help Net Security: “Prometheus: Open-source metrics and monitoring systems and services” December 15, 2025
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting system built for environments where services change often and failures can spread fast. For security teams and DevOps engineers, it has become a common way to track system behavior, spot early...

CRN: “The 10 Coolest Open-Source Software Tools Of 2025”
CRN: “The 10 Coolest Open-Source Software Tools Of 2025” December 12, 2025
OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework that standardizes the collection, processing and export of observability data (including log, metric, and trace data) from applications. Its proponents say it offers a vendor-neutral way for IT managers to gain...

The New Stack: “Why the CNCF’s New Executive Director Is Obsessed With Inference”
The New Stack: “Why the CNCF’s New Executive Director Is Obsessed With Inference” December 9, 2025
Why inference will dominate the next decade of computing and what the CNCF’s new Kubernetes AI conformance program means for enterprises.

The New Stack: “How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry”
The New Stack: “How Capital One Cut Tracing Data by 70% With OpenTelemetry” December 5, 2025
Learn how Capital One used OpenTelemetry and tail-based sampling to reduce its tracing data volume by 70%, achieving smarter, optimized observability.

Forrester: “KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud”
Forrester: “KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud” December 3, 2025
The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change —...

The New Stack: “Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager?”
The New Stack: “Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager?” December 3, 2025
WebAssembly plugins are among the upgrades in the latest version of one of the cloud native ecosystem’s oldest projects. Learn more in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

The New Stack: “Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF”
The New Stack: “Broadcom ‘Doubles Down’ on Open Source, Donates Kubernetes Tool to CNCF” December 2, 2025
Broadcom’s VCF engineers and developers have consistently continued to contribute to open source, and it remains one of the top five CNCF open source contributors and a major Kubernetes contributor.