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Sound the alarm, because Works with Home Assistant just welcomed our newest partner to the program: FireAvert! 🎉 Specialists in fire safety, FireAvert are on a mission to keep you and your home out of harm’s way. They bring the very first gas and electric appliance shutoff devices to the program, a
Read article →Cloudflare Radar tracked Internet disruptions driven by natural disasters, government-mandated shutdowns, and DNSSEC key rollovers over the last quarter. This post analyzes traffic telemetry to explain how these events impacted global connectivity. Like most infrastructure, the Internet's fragi
07 / 28 / 2026
Learn how AI coding agents can expose credentials in supply chain attacks and how Docker Sandboxes keep secrets out of an agent's reach. This is Part 4 of our AI Coding Agent Horror Stories series, a look at real security incidents involving AI coding agents, and how Docker Sandboxes keeps credentia
07 / 28 / 2026pvcli is a curl-like tool designed to simplify the testing of complex privacy protocols like OHTTP. Debugging privacy-preserving protocols is hard. Oblivious HTTP has several different steps across four different parties, not to mention binary HTTP encoding and details spread across many draft RFCs.
07 / 27 / 2026
Every multi-region setup eventually meets the same awkward moment: a whole cluster goes away, and the identical copy of your service running two regions over might as well not exist, because nothing is wired to treat... Every multi-region setup eventually meets the same awkward moment: a whole clust
07 / 27 / 2026By doing in-depth testing, we found nearly 70% of BGP paths experience ORIGIN attribute rewrites by transit providers seeking traffic advantages. We examine the global impact of this practice and argue for deprecating ORIGIN in route selection. Border Gateway Protocol ( BGP ) is the de facto routing
07 / 24 / 2026
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very... In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel)
07 / 24 / 2026Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,... Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer wo
07 / 24 / 2026Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure. Kubernetes and the broader Cloud Native ecosystem are becoming increasingly critical foundations... Japanese article follows English one.
07 / 24 / 2026Perhaps you’ve seen something that should sail out of cache get dragged back to the origin by a stray Set-Cookie or Cache-Control, headers that can be difficult to change on the origin itself. Cache Response Rules is the fix, applied at the right time. Today we’re excited to announce Cache Response
07 / 23 / 2026Ever since we introduced the idea of a community-powered device database at State of the Open Home 2025, our goal has been clear: create a “Wikipedia of smart home devices” based on real-world usage. In February, we took the first step by inviting Home Assistant users to voluntarily share anonymized
07 / 23 / 2026A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together... A follow-up to our earlier post
07 / 23 / 2026The symptom that made no sense The first time we saw it, we didn’t trust the dashboard. A distributed training job was scheduled and healthy — every pod was running, no crashes, no OOMKills, nothing in... The symptom that made no sense The first time we saw it, we didn’t trust the dashboard. A
07 / 23 / 2026