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Deep dives, how-tos, and field notes on Kubernetes development and AI-driven software engineering. From the MetalBear team, the company behind mirrord.

How Our Engineering Team Uses AI, Part II: Meat Proxies
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How Our Engineering Team Uses AI, Part II: Meat Proxies

In January, AI was a tool around the edges of our work. Eight months later, we asked the engineering team the same questions again, and AI has moved to the center.

Posted October 7, 2026 by Eyal Bukchin · 9 min read
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Give Your AI Agent a Playground, Not a Sandbox
Give Your AI Agent a Playground, Not a Sandbox

A sandbox leaves the agent to rebuild your system. A playground hands it the real one.

Sep 30, 2026 · 7 min Read more →
CAFE(S) and the Context You Can't Write Down
CAFE(S) and the Context You Can't Write Down

Some context only people know. The rest, the running system can tell the agent itself.

Sep 25, 2026 · 4 min Read more →
How monday.com Runs Agent Evals Against Real Dependencies: Webinar Recap
How monday.com Runs Agent Evals Against Real Dependencies: Webinar Recap

Mocks drift, run on thin synthetic data, and can't represent state. Here's how monday.com wired its agent eval suite to a real Kubernetes …

Sep 17, 2026 · 8 min Read more →
Chaos Testing When Your Testers Are Agents
Chaos Testing When Your Testers Are Agents

Fault injection has mostly been a one-at-a-time activity. That was fine when the testers were people.

Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min Read more →
The AI-Native SDLC Starts With Your Infrastructure
The AI-Native SDLC Starts With Your Infrastructure

The playbook tells you the agent needs a check it can run. It does not say what that check should run against.

Aug 30, 2026 · 6 min Read more →
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.37 Release
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.37 Release

Kubernetes 1.37 'Garhwal' graduates KYAML, DRA device taints, and Pod Certificates to stable, and takes early steps toward scheduler-aware …

Aug 27, 2026 · 14 min Read more →
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