AWS EKS engineers published the real root cause of slow CUDA/PyTorch image pulls on Aug 10, 2026: it's serialization, not bandwidth. Two containerd fixes now shipping in EKS Auto Mode — chunked range-request downloads and concurrent layer unpacking.
The CNCF just made Dapr Agents v1.0 generally available. After years of AI agent frameworks focused on intelligence, here's one that focuses on survival — durable workflows, state management, and production-grade reliability on Kubernetes.
The complete deployment guide: Docker multi-stage builds, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, zero-downtime deploys, go-live checklist, production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, and the operational runbook that keeps voice AI running at scale.
From 10 concurrent interviews to 10,000. LiveKit SFU mesh, stateless agent workers, Kubernetes auto-scaling, regional deployment, and the infrastructure patterns that handle hiring season surges.
Docker and Kubernetes explained like you're having coffee with a friend. No jargon walls — just real analogies about shipping containers, apartments, and why 'works on my machine' is everyone's least favorite sentence.
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