Node Readiness Controller 🎛️, Forget Technical Debt 😮, Claude’s Constitution 📜

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Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR DevOps 2026-02-04 📱 News & Trends Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.35 (2 minute read) Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes 1.35, enabling new cluster creation and upgrades across all regions. The release adds in-place pod resource updates, improved traffic locality, topology labels via Downward API, and image volumes for delivering data artifacts. Introducing Node Readiness Controller (2 minute read) The Kubernetes project introduced the Node Readiness Controller, a declarative system designed to ensure nodes meet all complex infrastructure dependencies, like GPU drivers or network agents, beyond the standard "Ready" condition before pods are scheduled. This controller dynamically manages taints based on custom health signals, allowing operators to define specific readiness requirements across heterogeneous clusters. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Securing GPU-accelerated AI workloads in Oracle Kubernetes Engine (5 minute read) A rapidly evolving threat landscape, marked by sophisticated supply-chain compromises and runtime exploits, has emerged for AI and ML workloads increasingly deployed on cloud infrastructure like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). To counter this, Sysdig developed a CNAPP platform that offers real-time detection and posture management, integrating with OCI Kubernetes blueprints to enable secure-by-default GPU-accelerated AI deployments. Forget technical debt (14 minute read) Technical debt is only one small contributor to increased cognitive load, which ultimately causes higher development effort and poorer runtime stability. Focusing narrowly on technical debt misses larger, often more damaging drivers—such as wasteful requirements, stress, process complexity, and organizational choices—so real improvement requires a broader, more holistic approach. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools Cut your dev loop from hours to seconds (Sponsor) mirrord (4.9k GitHub stars) lets you run your microservice locally with access to everything in the cloud, speeding up development, improving code quality, and reducing cloud costs. It's used by companies like monday.com, which reduced dev cycle time by 70%. Learn more about mirrord. Moltworker (GitHub Repo) OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot, can run on Cloudflare Workers within a Sandbox container. This setup offers a fully managed, always-on deployment that features optional R2 storage for persistence, browser automation capabilities, and Cloudflare AI Gateway integration. Shipyard (GitHub Repo) The Shipyard project provides a Go framework and tooling for creating multiple Kubernetes clusters with kind, enabling local E2E testing and development. This is facilitated through specific Dockerfile and Makefile integrations that leverage Dapper for a consistent environment. Stelvio (GitHub Repo) Stelvio is an open-source framework that lets users build and deploy modern AWS applications using pure Python. 🎁 Miscellaneous Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project (2 minute read) Cedar, an AWS-originated open-source authorization policy language, joined the CNCF as a Sandbox project to provide a vendor-neutral, formally verified standard for fine-grained application authorization, supporting RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC with high-performance, analyzable policy-as-code. Alerting Best Practices with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (8 minute read) This post explains how to design, validate, route, and monitor scalable alerting using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, combining recording and alerting rules, AlertManager integrations, and CloudWatch metrics and logs to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident response. ⚡ Quick Links Introducing Kthena: LLM inference for the cloud native era (3 minute read) Kthena is a Kubernetes native orchestration and routing layer for large language model inference that improves GPU and NPU utilization, latency, and throughput through topology aware scheduling, KV cache aware routing, and Prefill Decode disaggregation. Anthropic Releases Updated Constitution for Claude (2 minute read) Anthropic released an updated Claude constitution that combines principles with reasoning context to guide training, alignment, and real world behavior. Why the OpenTelemetry Batch Processor is Going Away (Eventually) (4 minute read) The OpenTelemetry community no longer recommends the batch processor for production deployments due to its vulnerability to data loss during Collector restarts when telemetry is buffered in memory. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/3b85ceef/10 Track your referrals here. Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of devops professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here, create your own role or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! TLDR is one of Inc.'s Best Bootstrapped businesses of 2025. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! 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