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Terraform moved to the BUSL license in 2023 and IBM now owns HashiCorp. OpenTofu, the MPL 2.0 fork under the Linux Foundation, has diverged. A 2026 decision guide: pricing, feature gaps and migration steps.
Docker Compose 5.3.0 (2 July 2026) adds pre_start init containers that run migrations, fix permissions, and generate config before a service boots, gating startup on exit 0. Four copy-paste patterns inside.
On July 27, 2026, Node.js patched HIGH-severity flaws across the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x lines, days after Next.js shipped its own. Here is which version to run and how to patch fast without breaking production.
Node.js is ending its twice-a-year major cycle. From October 2026 it ships one LTS release a year, and Node 27 lands in April 2027. What backend teams should change about upgrade planning and EOL risk.
CloudNativePG 1.30, released July 6, 2026, adds a DatabaseRole CRD for GitOps-friendly roles, a Lease-based primary election for safer failover, and three security fixes. Here is what changed, the config that matters
AI agents are long-running, stateful and GPU-hungry, and standard Deployments fight them. Here is how Agent Sandbox, warm pools and Kubernetes DRA change the design in 2026, with configs and comparison tables.
PostgreSQL 19 beta 2 landed on 16 July 2026 with online REPACK, native SQL/PGQ graph queries, self-scaling async I/O, parallel autovacuum and controllable query plans. Here are the five changes production teams should
Cursor Automations, live since March 2026, run cloud agents on a timer or on events from Slack, GitHub, Linear and PagerDuty. This guide covers setup, six useful workflows, costs on Pro and Ultra, and guardrails.
Kubernetes 1.35 is the last version to support containerd 1.x; from 1.36 containerd 2.0 is the floor. Here is what breaks in your node config, how to find at-risk nodes, and how GKE, EKS and AKS differ.
Amazon Bedrock's new Mantle console connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more to GPT, Claude and open-weight models with IAM or a Bedrock API key. Here is how to wire each coding agent through Bedrock.
TanStack's release pipeline authenticated 84 malicious npm versions in six minutes using a valid OIDC token. No token was stolen. Here is the chain, and the controls that close it as of July 2026.
LangChain's June 2026 survey of 1,340 practitioners found 89% run observability but only 52.4% run offline evals. Here is the four-gate CI setup that closes the gap.
GitHub reduced hosted runner prices by up to 39% on 1 January 2026, yet a macOS minute still costs $0.062 against $0.006 for Linux. Google found 84% of pass-to-fail transitions were flaky tests. Seven rules for a suite
Ingress-NGINX reached end of life in March 2026, and about half of cloud native environments ran it. A tested migration path to Gateway API using ingress2gateway 1.0, including what it cannot translate.
Ingress NGINX maintenance ended in March 2026: no releases, no bugfixes, no security updates. ingress2gateway v1.1.0 maps 34 ingress-nginx annotations to Gateway API, refuses 7 more, and there are two NGINX providers
Kubernetes v1.35 introduced the Workload API and native gang scheduling. Four months later v1.36 replaced the API version entirely. Here is the current shape, the migration, and the GPU maths that justifies it.
In-place pod resize graduated to stable in Kubernetes v1.35, and pod-level resize reached beta in v1.36. What changed, what still forces a restart, and how to wire it to the Vertical Pod Autoscaler.
npm 12 is generally available and tagged latest. Lifecycle scripts, git dependencies and remote tarballs are now opt-in, node-gyp builds are blocked, and the failure shows up in CI first. Here is the migration.
AWS removed its advanced-instances tier on June 30, 2026, so you can manage Azure VMs from AWS Systems Manager at no per-node charge. A setup walkthrough, an honest SSM versus Azure Arc comparison, and the App Manager
