Topic
DevOps tooling, CI runtimes and hiring: what it costs and what changes next.
Amazon EKS charges $0.60 per cluster hour once a Kubernetes version leaves standard support, six times the $0.10 base rate. That number, not a job title, is what a DevOps hire is really being asked to prevent.
Manu Shukla 
xUnit.net v3 4.0.0, Analyzers 2.0.0 and the Visual Studio adapter 4.0.0 shipped together on 14 August 2026. Native AOT and full test parallelisation arrive with three dropped support lines.
Manu Shukla 
AWS DevOps Agent reached general availability in March 2026, billed per agent-second with no idle charges. What it automates, the published MTTR data, competitor pricing, and when to build instead.
Manu Shukla 