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We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-18T15:00:00Z

Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...

CNCF · 2026-09-17T11:00:00Z

A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-17T00:26:43Z

Managing infrastructure secrets on Kubernetes needs a backend that is self-healing and free of vendor lock-in, and that is exactly what OpenBao (the Linux Foundation’s open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault) and CloudNativePG give you: an entirely...

CNCF · 2026-09-16T11:30:00Z

If you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it. Here's what I did to support GitHub's APAC marketing team. The post Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-11T18:26:10Z

On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed the...

CNCF · 2026-09-15T16:24:05Z

Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-10T21:31:19Z

Cilium 1.20, the second major open source Cilium release of 2026 after Cilium 1.19, is finally here. Three themes stand out in this release: Thank you to every contributor, reviewer and maintainer who made Cilium 1.20...

CNCF · 2026-09-14T10:45:49Z

In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-10T02:05:17Z

This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City. From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across open source and cloud native communities for...

CNCF · 2026-09-11T12:29:33Z

In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot. The post Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-04T16:04:14Z

AI workloads are changing what platform teams need from infrastructure. Provisioning GPUs and standing up a cluster no longer makes a platform “AI-ready.” Once training spans more than one node, the bottlenecks show up in places...

CNCF · 2026-09-11T11:00:00Z

Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-03T16:00:00Z

Scope This document describes three failure scenarios that separate having backups from being able to recover, and the guidance that follows from each. Every scenario is reproducible on a laptop from the lab repository above, and...

CNCF · 2026-09-10T11:37:00Z

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my! appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-02T21:00:00Z

The question that stopped the meeting It was a routine cost review. The slide showed the month’s GPU spend, the biggest line on the whole infrastructure bill, and someone asked a five-word question: “Are we using...

CNCF · 2026-09-09T11:27:00Z

Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-09-02T18:00:00Z

“A sales guy writing code” used to be the lead-up to a joke. But now no one’s laughing. Designers used to sit meekly waiting for the high priests of code to make their designs real. Now...

CNCF · 2026-09-09T08:13:23Z

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

The GitHub Blog · 2026-08-27T16:00:00Z

Access control belongs on the same day-zero checklist as networking and storage. On most on-prem clusters, it never makes the list. The Identity Gap Managed cloud Kubernetes ships IAM or SSO integration out of the box....

CNCF · 2026-09-08T11:30:00Z

You’ve probably felt this one: GitHub Actions usage creeps up across your org, and your actual visibility into it doesn’t keep pace. Which workflows are slow? Which are flaky? How long are jobs sitting queued for...

CNCF · 2026-09-08T11:00:00Z