Expedia's Performance and Reliability team has recently open-sourced its container-startup-autoscaler (CSA). It is a Kubernetes controller leveraging the In-Place Update of Pod Resources feature to dynamically adjust CPU and/or memory resources of containers during startup based on user-defined startup/post-startup configurations. By Claudio Masolo

Joni Collinge, Diagrid's founding software engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

During KubeCon EU the Mercedes Benz team presented their migration journey from Pod Security Policies to Validation Admission Policies to secure their 1000+ Kubernetes clusters. The solution was chosen in favour of Kyverno due to its improved performance. By Olimpiu Pop

Microsoft recently announced significant updates to the Govern section of its Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, enhancing cloud governance guidance across various domains, including identity, cost management, and AI, to support better organizations, from startups to large enterprises, in their cloud journey. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Google has released Android 15 Beta. This version brings loudness control, screen recording detection, edge-to-edge apps by default, improvements for satellite connectivity and OpenJDK core libraries, new SQLite Apis, and more. By Diogo Carleto

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Cassie Shum, VP of Field Engineering at Relational AI, about the importance of empathy in engineering culture and the key elements of building a strong team. By Cassandra Shum