Author: Carmen Burke
Kubernetes 1.32’s Native Sidecars: The Unsexy Feature That Actually Matters
The Problem We’ve Been Working Around for Years If you’ve spent any meaningful time with Kubernetes service meshes, you know the pain. Istio injects sidecar proxies into your pods, and the... Read More
The Vibe Coding Backlash Is Here and It’s Mostly Justified — A Senior Engineer’s Honest Assessment
What Actually Is Vibe Coding, and Why the Term Matters Back in February 2025, Andrej Karpathy—someone whose opinion on neural networks I’d trust with my mortgage—dropped a two-word term into... Read More
Aurora DSQL: The Distributed SQL Database That Actually Solves a Real Problem
The Announcement Nobody Expected to Care About Amazon Web Services dropped Aurora DSQL at re:Invent 2025 with about as much fanfare as a firmware update. No keynote moment. No Steve Jobs-style theater... Read More