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Spotlight on SIG Storage
In our ongoing SIG Spotlight series, we shine a light on the groups that keep the Kubernetes project moving forward. This time, we catch up with SIG Storage , the group responsible for persistent data, volume management, and the interfaces that connect Kubernetes workloads to the storage systems ben...
ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Faisal Saeed
Meet Faisal Saeed, Principal Customer Engineer on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.
Cloud Topics: the Metastore
Learn how Redpanda's metastore powers Cloud Topics, from offset lookups and whole cluster restore to cross-region read replicas, and why it's built to be a foundational primitive for the future.
ScyllaDB Operator 1.21 Release — with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Support
Introducing Oracle Kubernetes Engine support, stronger TLS, and a lighter dependency footprint
Updated Requirements to How Apps Access Data in Servers
Discord is updating requirements to how apps access certain data within servers, changing the review threshold and requiring annual review. Here's what's changing and why.
Game On: Discord Is Backing the Next Generation of Dutch Gaming Founders
Together with Techleap, we’re launching the Gaming Founders Circle: a hands-on program for the most ambitious gaming companies in the Netherlands to provide participants with a direct line to the people, investors, and networks that help great games scale.
How We Moved Discord Voice to the Edge
Moving Discord’s voice and video onto Cloudflare's edge network. Closer servers, lower ping in most regions, and a few real bugs getting there.
The four pillars for AI agent governance at scale
AI agents need governance infrastructure, not just “better models”. Here are the four pillars every enterprise needs to deploy agents safely at scale: identity, authorization, observability, and accountability.
Introducing: You Bar
Introducing the You Bar: an update to the Discord mobile app that celebrates your identity, simpler navigation, and a peek at what’s next.
Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves
Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents with less of a penchant for self-destruction by teaching their agents to do anything risky in a Sprite. You get an agent that stays alive long enough to actually use its snazzy self-impr...
Discord Patch Notes: June 4, 2026
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Using Salting to Lower Latency for Large Blobs in ScyllaDB
A modified salting technique that cuts P99 write latency 22x for large blobs
Dear cqlsh: Your dependencies were killing us (P.S. We rewrote you in Rust)
A story of rewriting cqlsh in Rust…with Claude Code and a lot of planning Dear cqlsh, I vouched for you. I told the team you were fine. I forked you, catered to you, vendored your dependencies and your dependencies’ dependencies. I patched things upstream that I knew you would never merge. I pinned ...
How OmniNode uses Redpanda to scale AI agent workflows
OmniNode’s founder shares his journey building the AI agent workflows that became OmniNode, and how Redpanda keeps topic names from drifting with contracts.
From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped developers, students, and operators make sense of Kuber...
Real-time streaming for the agentic era with NVIDIA
NVIDIA Vera launches today with Redpanda as part of the ecosystem, delivering 5.5x lower latencies for agents running in mission-critical environments.
ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Tyler Denton
Welcome to the first installment of a new blog series introducing some of the experts you’re likely to encounter when you work with ScyllaDB. Let's get to know Tyler Denton, a Solutions Architect on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.
Official Discord Integrations for Steal a Brainrot, Grow a Garden, Brookhaven RP, and more
How some of the most popular Roblox games have integrated Discord account linking to enhance social features and safety capabilities for official community servers.
Redpanda SQL is GA: the query engine that skips the pipeline
Your warehouse can't query data that hasn't been ingested yet. Redpanda SQL can. Ad hoc SQL against live topics and Iceberg history, no ETL pipeline required.
Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the official Kubernetes CVE Feed , we ha...
Making It Easier Than Ever to Connect with Friends in League & VAL!
Link your Discord and Riot accounts to sync your friends lists, show your in-game activity as your Discord status, and invite your Discord friends directly to your League or VAL lobby.
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0 . This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components and interfaces. v3.7 wi...
Cloud Topics: Level Zero garbage collection
How Redpanda Cloud Topics tracks the lifecycle of temporary L0 objects and determines when they're safe to delete, without risking data loss or runaway storage costs. Read more.
Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
As of March 2026, E2EE is now enforced for every voice and video call on Discord. This represents a multi-year commitment, and Discord’s VP of Engineering is here to talk about why it matters.
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider . T...