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Learn the key differences between `removesuffix()` and `rstrip()` in Python. Avoid common pitfalls and choose the right method for precise string manipulation.

Interact with Kubernetes subresources like `status` and `scale` using `kubectl` natively with the new `--subresource` flag, no more raw HTTP calls.

CVE-2025-1767 exposes root-level access on nodes via a deprecated volume plugin; Kubernetes 1.33 will disable it by default

Explore the 10-year journey of CNCF, its major milestones, community growth, and impact on cloud-native technologies in this detailed, analytical post.

Explore OpenAI's major 2025 updates including new GPT models, research breakthroughs, multimodal tools, and how the community is shaping the AI ecosystem.

Enhance Kubernetes pod scheduling with dynamic affinity using matchLabelKeys and mismatchLabelKeys for safer rollouts and tenant isolation.

Pods can now exclude tainted nodes during topology spread calculations, improving placement predictability.

Kubernetes 1.33 ensures PV reclaim policies are honored even if PVs are deleted before PVCs, preventing storage leaks across CSI and in-tree drivers.

A Kubernetes pod takes a fast async path, skipping blocking API calls handled in the background, showing the shift from sync to async preemption.

Kubernetes adds limited swap support for Burstable pods, offering memory flexibility on cgroupsv2 nodes without compromising workload stability.

Explore the top 10 Python trends in 2025, from faster runtimes and type safety to AI, web, data, DevOps, and quantum. Stay ahead in every domain with Python.

Kubernetes now aligns memory-backed emptyDir volumes with pod memory limits for improved portability and consistency across node types.

Kubernetes wasn’t built from scratch. Learn how Google’s secret systems shaped its design, and why that origin still matters for developers today.

Use Pluto to identify deprecated or removed Kubernetes APIs in your manifests and Helm charts before upgrading, ensuring smooth and predictable cluster upgrade.

A new /statusz endpoint is coming to Kubernetes. Find out how it boosts debugging and observability without touching your metrics stack.

Python 3.14 simplifies exception handling with PEP 758, letting you drop parentheses when catching multiple exceptions, cleaner, consistent, and backward-safe.

Explore how CPython evolved from adaptive bytecode in 3.11 to JIT execution in 3.14, boosting performance without rewriting the interpreter.

A critical kubelet bug exposes a DoS risk via the unauthenticated /checkpoint API. Learn how to detect, mitigate, and patch CVE-2025-0426.

Tested Python 3.13's optional GIL. Shared results showing real multithreading gains, install steps, and when it outperforms multiprocessing.

Python 3.14 adds a native Zstandard module under compression.zstd, unifying high-performance zstd support and existing stdlib compressors under one namespace.

Learn how to simplify your Python loops using `zip()` for parallel iteration and `enumerate()` for index tracking. Includes practical, real-world examples.