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AWS Architecture

ReadyOn’s Four Walls of tenant isolation on Amazon EKS

ReadyOn runs a multi-tenant platform on Amazon EKS that handles highly sensitive enterprise data. This post describes their Four Walls model: four independent layers of tenant isolation combining Kubernetes namespaces, Karpenter node pools, Amazon VPC security groups, and per-tenant Amazon Aurora databases for zero-tr…

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Cloudflare

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.

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AWS Architecture

Building cloud-native PACS on AWS

A hybrid cloud architecture pattern for modernizing medical imaging on AWS. Learn how multi-hospital networks can centralize PACS archives, enable cross-facility interoperability, and use Amazon S3 storage tiers to manage cost and retention at scale.

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes v1.37: Pod-Level Resource Managers graduated to Beta

With the release of Kubernetes v1.37, the Pod-Level Resource Managers feature has graduated to Beta status (disabled by default)! First introduced as an Alpha feature in Kubernetes v1.36 , this enhancement builds on Pod-Level Resources by equipping Kubelet's Topology Manager, CPU Manager, and Memory Manager to use Pod…

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta . If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage in Kubernetes, the Alpha announcement covers the motivati…

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta

Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first introduced as Alpha in v1.22, and expanded in v1.36 with tiered memory reservati…

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes v1.37: Native Histograms Graduates to Beta

I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37! Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808 ) bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes metrics. By adoptin…

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