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Vendor posts say OpenTelemetry's GenAI client spans went stable in early 2026. The specification says Development on every page, which sits below Alpha. Here is what that means for your instrumentation.
Manu Shukla 
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.
Manu Shukla 
The 2026-07-28 MCP revision removes the initialize handshake and the protocol-level session, so any instance can serve any request. The maintainers say nothing switches off on 28 July.
Manu Shukla 
Four vendors rebuilt their agent runtimes around the session in 2026, and they agree on routing but disagree on the compute primitive underneath. A comparison of AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Google Agent Engine
Manu Shukla 
Cloud Run now fails over between regions automatically using readiness probes and serverless NEGs. Here is the working gcloud setup, plus the two defaults that silently break failover.
Manu Shukla 
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
Manu Shukla 
Kubernetes 1.35 shipped Pod Certificates at Beta and constrained impersonation at Alpha. Neither is the zero-trust mTLS upgrade the headlines promised, and the KEP says so directly. Here is the real scope.
Manu Shukla 
Most modernization fails on delivery risk, not technology. Here are five patterns that cut that risk in 2026, framed as a platform engineering playbook, from strangler fig to DORA-metric guardrails.
Manu Shukla 