‼️Helm v4.0.0 is now officially live! github.com/helm/helm/re... ‼️ New updates include: 🎉 plugin system that supports WASM based plugins 🎉 Server side apply support 🎉 & LOTS more Go check it out! & if you’re around at #KubeCon, come chat about it at the Helm booth!

Side projects, blog, podcasting is hard with 2 small kids, but I eventually managed to find time for a blog! (PS: I had to switch to 5am routine 🙈) Wrote some words about #lazygit OSS tool and what we can learn from its UX. Enjoy! 🤗 bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/

SARCASM : un robot railleur qui résout les Rubik’s Cube SARCASM est un formidable projet complètement documenté qui nous montre comment résoudre un Rubik's Cube avec un robot.. buff.ly/qOrEOmA #diy

Gateway API 1.4: New Features-

🎊 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released! 📡 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tVVHm9gnwl8/m/-oTvYIjCAQAJ 🗃 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.4 #golang

I don't post so often, these days, but this made my day. Versioned rollback is finally a thing in k8s. cloud.google.com/blog/product...

📣 OTel Unplugged is headed to Brussels in February 2026! A full day of in-person conversation and collaboration! Unconference sessions only—no organized talks. We’ll shape the next chapter of the #OpenTelemetry roadmap. Details on registration and sponsorship in our latest blog. buff.ly/vC9kqtZ

Rendez-vous lundi midi pour le premier duel de notre édition 2025 ! ⚔️ #VendrediLecture

Spent a couple evenings reverse engineering how Gerrit auth works, concluded it's OAuth2, started building a proxy to replace the long-lived ~/.gitcookies file... Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.

“Flight Recorder in Go 1.25” by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek — https://go.dev/blog/flight-recorder #golang

I recently spoke at GopherCon UK 2025 about the hidden power of #Go’s `-toolexec` flag. How it can turn every `go build` into a programmable pipeline for things like error-handling enforcement and observability hooks. Here’s the recording:

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

And then some of us grumble when we have to explain the value of observability over and over again... 😬

not wrong (and I'm sure still true)

Nous fêtons donc nos 25 ans (!) avec une toute nouvelle version du site ! :) Qui a dit "enfin" ? ;)

Whoever did #golang "modernize" - thank you! pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...

Today's AWS isn't the AWS of even 2020. www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...

clickhouse.com/blog/llm-obs... Nice writeup on LLMs and incident resolutions.

🎊 Go 1.25.0 is released! 📝 Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.25 ⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.0 #golang

I edited my Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures research into a stand-alone article, including recommendations reusable by other projects. tl;dr: no need for tokens or keys, modern browsers tell you if a request is cross-origin! words.filippo.io/csrf

A new term for SRE just dropped. Or really…a lot of my life even outside tech.

OTel Collector users — we want to hear from you (again)! Last year, we did a survey to learn how you’re using the Collector. The response shaped a lot of our thinking. Now we’re back with a quick follow-up. Tell us what’s changed, what’s working, and what’s still rough. 👉https://buff.ly/Ghoh5H9

Fantastic new blog post from my colleague Nayef. If you're into Go internals, check it out! www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...

Excellent #golang blog post with a bunch of interesting general Go performance nuggets along with an overview of a new (and fast) Protobuf parser in Go from the folks at Buf. 🚀

Funny how we force engineers to write ADRs for every trade‑off, yet billion‑dollar strategic bets live in hallway whispers and fluffy slide decks. What if we treated business decisions like architecture? Context, options, trade‑offs, metrics, all in a repo, version‑controlled and reviewed?

Today, we published @rawkode.dev's first editorial! ArgoCD's UI is great, but Flux's architecture is inevitable.

PROGRAMMER: I've saved so much time! NARRATOR: They did not save any time whatsoever. In fact, they spent as much time as they claimed to have saved. Again. bsky.app/profile/metr...

Today’s realization: Kubernetes is for maximizing utilization. If you need to maximize isolation, for performance or security reasons, you probably need a different platform, as close to bare metal as possible.

I'm working on an interactive Go 1.25 tour, but there are so many changes in json/v2 that I decided to cover them in a separate blog post. Plenty of interactive examples ahead! antonz.org/go-json-v2

What’s common knowledge in your field? But shocking to others when they learn it? All databases are bad. All systems are failing in some way. We just notice failure way less than we realize.

ok I had to do it, tag urselves

Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally. status.cloud.google.com Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare. www.cloudflarestatus.com #hugops

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. You don’t know your code. You’re babysitting it". Indeed, a very good read, harsh but realistic.

I've made it 3 paragraphs in and already need a neck brace from involuntarily violent head nodding syndrome. I'm in vehement agreement and already have expanded my perspective too. Anyone know a good central valley chiropractor? Oh yeah, and read the actual post from @hazelweakly.me Just do it.

Hey managers: Want to create a product faster? Easy. Remove the friction that you impose on the teams. When you don't impede the team's work, they can work blindingly fast. "Slow" is not the team's fault, it's yours.

If you can donate a few minutes of your time, I and the team will appreciate it greatly. Thanks!

This is one of the most entertaining things I’ve read in weeks.

Confused about the difference between logs and events? Check out our latest blog post to find out how the project distinguishes them. opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/op...

Check out this week's o11y newsletter with great content from OpenTelemetry tooling to KubeCon recap: o11y.news/2025-04-14/ #observability

Common painful thing. But I think we found epic solution, available from next @prometheus.io version, who knows! Slides with the recorded demo is available here: docs.google.com/presentation...

Data transfer costs (directionally; this includes CloudFront and Managed NAT gateway data processing) should be about 7% of your AWS bill. There are exceptions, sure, but this is what we’ve seen over dozens of client environments.

Don't count your quiet engineers out. I have a quiet engineer that always does a great job getting their work done, but through talking to people in & outside of my team, I've learned they do waaaay more work than I ever realized. Quiet storm 💜 Quiet people, don't be afraid to talk about your work!

But so far in 2025, 46% of the surveyed companies have thrown out their AI proofs-of-concept and 42% have abandoned most of their AI initiatives — complete failure. The abandonment rate in 2024 was 17%.

Introducing Dagger Shell: Unix philosophy meets modern infra. Familiar bash syntax with built-in containers, typed objects, and declarative workflows—all cached and sandboxed. No more juggling DSLs to ship software.

I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0". charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...

I with just released about 2 years of work on improving compression with a fixed encoding LZ77 style compressor for #golang Our goal was to improve compression by combining and tweaking the best aspects of LZ4 and Snappy. Check it out: github.com/minio/minlz

Opensource saving tons of money while boosting productivity 🥰

Use a liveness probe when you know for sure the best possible thing to do is to kill your app.

New article on my blog that explains all the various ways Kubernetes can evict your workloads. This wasn't all documented in one place so I'm hoping this helps the teams operating with Kubernetes in production. You'll also find a cheatsheet in the article. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...