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Weekly vs. split-week on-call rotations: A guide to finding the right rhythm

When you move past daily rotations but find anything longer than a week feels too stretched out, you often end up choosing between weekly and split-week rotations. Weekly rotations give you a full seven days before handing off. Split-week rotations break that time into smaller chunks like 2-day, 3-day, or 4-day shifts. Each approach creates a different rhythm for your team. This guide compares both patterns across three key criteria.

Kubex and Tangoe Partner to Deliver Unified Cloud, Kubernetes, and FinOps Optimization

Enterprises operating at cloud scale today face a growing reality: managing infrastructure performance and cost in silos no longer works. Kubernetes, multi cloud environments, and GPU accelerated workloads deliver immense agility and capability, but they also introduce complexity that outpaces traditional monitoring and cost governance approaches.

Your Boss Doesn't Understand Your Work (Here's Why)

Developer productivity metrics create unique anxiety. If your company rolled out tracking systems like DORA metrics or velocity dashboards, you're probably wondering what these numbers mean and how they'll evaluate your work. At GitKon 2025, we assembled senior engineers from GitHub, Cloudflare, Kong, and GitKraken to discuss "Your Boss is Measuring You, Now What?" The panel included both individual contributors and engineering leaders, creating an honest conversation about measurement from both perspectives.

From Blueprint to Production: Building a Kubernetes MCP Server

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve from simple chatbots into agentic workflows, the need for a standardized way to connect them to external data and infrastructure has become critical. In a recent workshop hosted by Nir Adler, Innovation Engineer at Komodor, we explored how to bridge this gap using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

What is the Open Container Initiative?

In this video, we explain the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and how open, vendor-neutral standards make containers portable and interoperable across platforms, tools, and environments. We cover what OCI is, why OCI compliance matters, and how OCI defines the core building blocks of the container ecosystem: container images, runtimes, and distribution.

The AI-Empowered Site Reliability Engineer: Automating the Balance of Risk and Velocity

You might expect an AI-SRE agent to target 100% reliable services, ones that never fail. It turns out that past a certain point, however, increasing reliability is worse for a service (and its users) rather than better! Extreme reliability comes at a non-linear cost: maximizing stability limits how fast new features can be developed, dramatically increases the operational cost, and reduces the features a team can afford to offer.

Custom Dashboard Creation: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Creating a custom dashboard is the best way to monitor metrics that matter most to your systems. Tools like MetricFire make this process straightforward by combining hosted Grafana and Graphite, eliminating the need for self-hosted solutions. Here's how you can build dashboards tailored to your needs.

How Dartmouth avoided vendor lock-in and implemented LBaaS with HAProxy One

History is everywhere at Dartmouth College, and while the campus is steeped in tradition, its IT infrastructure can’t afford to get stuck in the past. In an institution where world-class research and undergraduate studies intersect, technology must be fast, invisible, and – above all – reliable. That reliability was put to the test when Dartmouth’s load balancing vendor was acquired twice in five years, as Avi Networks moved to VMware and VMware moved to Broadcom.