Senior Editor, Data & Tech
Ashish Kale
Ashish leads Notifire's data and tech coverage. He writes about relational and analytical databases, data platforms, streaming systems, and the broader business of technology — fundraising, M&A, hiring trends, and consumer-facing product launches. His briefings translate platform decisions into operational impact for engineering and business teams.
Areas of coverage
- Kubernetes
- Cloud platforms
- Observability
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
Recent briefings by Ashish
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Grafana Now Lets AI Agents Read Live System Data
Grafana has released new tools that allow AI coding agents to directly query live system data like metrics and logs. This enables developers to build and debug applications using real-time information, not just static code.
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Cloudflare May Be Adding Code to Your Website
Cloudflare is reportedly adding its analytics script to websites automatically when users switch to its nameservers. This happens without explicit consent, raising concerns about transparency and site control for developers.
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Kioxia SSD Handles 10 Million Tasks Per Second
Kioxia unveiled a new enterprise SSD that achieves a record 10 million input/output operations per second. Its extreme speed and endurance are engineered to eliminate data bottlenecks for the most demanding AI systems.
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Your Cloudflare AI Traces May Be Incomplete
Cloudflare now offers agent tracing to help developers debug AI on its Workers platform. However, the company warns that traces are not lossless, data can be truncated, and the feature will become a paid service in 2026.
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Cloudflare Now Lets You Override Server Cache Settings
Cloudflare's new Cache Response Rules let you control caching *after* your server responds. This gives developers powerful, fine-grained control to optimize performance and reduce origin server load, all from the Cloudflare dashboard.
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A Tiny Chip Could Power a 1 Petabyte SSD
Kioxia and SanDisk revealed a new memory chip that could enable the world's first 1 petabyte SSDs. This breakthrough promises massive increases in storage density and speed for data centers and cloud infrastructure.
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Kubeflow Upgrades Simplify AI on Kubernetes
The open-source AI platform Kubeflow has released major updates, including better Spark support, to simplify building complex AI systems on Kubernetes. The project is also nearing official graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, signaling its maturity.
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How Google BigQuery Makes AI Agents More Trustworthy
Google Cloud has updated BigQuery with graph data capabilities. This helps AI agents understand the complex relationships within business data, leading to more accurate and trustworthy insights than what's possible with simple tables.
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Packer Now Signs Every Machine Image You Build
HashiCorp's Packer can now automatically generate and sign attestations for every machine image it builds. This gives teams a verifiable, cryptographic record to prove an image's origin and integrity, strengthening software supply chain security.
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Your Network Is Now a Boardroom-Level Concern
New research shows most UK tech leaders now view network outages as a critical business problem, not just an IT issue. Growing complexity in vendors and platforms is making it harder for technology to drive business transformation.
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Netflix Scrapped Its Own Tool for Open Source
Netflix has replaced its homegrown batch processing system with Kueue, an open-source alternative. The move gives them more features and saves the high cost of maintaining a custom internal tool for managing large-scale computing jobs.
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Oracle Is Adding a Quantum Computer to Its Cloud
Oracle is installing a Quantinuum quantum computer directly into its cloud infrastructure. The move aims to give enterprise customers on-demand access to quantum power for demanding AI and high-performance computing workloads, simplifying a complex technology.
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Vercel and LaunchDarkly Offer Instant Feature Flags
LaunchDarkly is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, letting developers add powerful feature flags to their projects with a single command. This integration automates setup, speeding up testing and safe feature rollouts for web applications.
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AI Boom Forces OVHcloud to Raise Server Prices
European cloud provider OVHcloud is raising server prices by up to 87% for all customers. The company blames the high demand for RAM and storage, driven by the AI boom, for the significant cost increase.
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How Netflix Built a Map That Never Loses Data
Netflix redesigned its real-time service map to handle massive scale without losing data. The new system uses a multi-stage pipeline and clever backpressure techniques to ensure every event is processed, even under extreme load.
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Is Your Observability Stack Counting Everything Twice?
Using a service mesh with other observability tools can accidentally double-count your traffic metrics. A new guide from CNCF shows developers how to fix this common issue, ensuring accurate data for monitoring and incident response.
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Google Now Uses AI Agents to Test Your Apps
Google Cloud launched a new platform that uses AI agents to automate mobile app testing on real devices. This aims to simplify the complex process of ensuring apps work across thousands of different phone models, evolving from Firebase Test Lab.
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Floating Nuclear Reactors Could Power Future Data Centers
The U.S. is backing an international push to simplify rules for floating nuclear reactors. The goal is to create a new power source for coastal data centers and industry, but it also creates complex new security challenges.
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Cloudflare Wants to Teach AI to Use Websites
Cloudflare is testing a new protocol, WebMCP, that lets AI agents interact with websites through a structured interface instead of scraping. Activated with a single switch, it aims to standardize how AI navigates the web.
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GKE Adds Security Rules That Don't Bother Developers
Google Cloud has launched ClusterNetworkPolicy for its Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The new feature lets platform administrators set cluster-wide security rules that work alongside developer policies, improving security without slowing down individual teams.