GitHub Actions Ubuntu 26.04 Migration: What Breaks When ubuntu-latest Moves On September 17, 2026, GitHub announced that the ubuntu-latest runner label is moving from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04, rolling out gradually between October 19 and November 19, 2026. If your workflows just say runs-on: ubuntu-latest and …

Azure User-Bound Delegation SAS Is GA: Lock Storage Tokens to a Single Entra Identity Every SAS token you've ever generated for Azure Storage has the same underlying weakness: it's a bearer credential. Whoever holds the URL — the person you sent it to, whoever they forwarded it to, whoever it leaked to in a log line or …

AWS Lambda SnapStart for Container Images: Setup Guide and Cost Tradeoffs If you package a Lambda function as a container image and it runs Java, Python, or .NET, you have probably eaten cold starts of several seconds every time traffic scaled up. SnapStart was the fix for that on .zip functions since 2022, but until …

Managed Instance on Azure App Service Is GA: Migrate Legacy .NET Framework Apps Without Rewriting Them If you've ever tried to move a 15-year-old ASP.NET app to Azure App Service and hit a wall — a COM component that needs registering, an MSI installer the app depends on, hardcoded C:\ paths, or a registry key some …

AKS Hyperscale Control Plane (Preview): Setup Guide and When You Actually Need It If you've ever run a large AKS cluster and watched kubectl requests start queuing during a traffic spike, or seen pods sit Pending while the scheduler falls behind, the cause is usually invisible: the managed control plane itself, not …

Kubernetes 1.37 HPA Scale-to-Zero: Setup Guide and Cold-Start Gotchas Kubernetes v1.37 ("Garhwal") shipped on August 26, 2026, and the change most teams will actually feel is quiet: HorizontalPodAutoscaler scale-to-zero graduated from Alpha to Beta, and it's enabled by default. If you're running batch consumers, queue …

Docker VMM Public Beta: What Docker's First-Party Virtualization Engine Changes On August 12, 2026, Docker shipped the public beta of Docker VMM — a virtualization layer it built and now owns end to end, replacing the third-party engines Docker Desktop has relied on since it first needed a Linux VM on Mac and Windows. …