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How to Evaluate Live & Voice Agents in ADK
Moving live voice agents from demo to production requires rigorous, automated testing to handle the unpredictability of real multi-turn conversations. ADK now provides native live evaluation, allowing developers to test graph-based agent wo
Build zero-trust AI agents with Google's Agent Development Kit
Building autonomous AI agents that mutate production state requires moving beyond soft system prompts to a robust zero-trust architecture. To secure Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) workflows against prompt injections and malicious execut
HeyGen x Google Cloud: Bringing Avatar IV to TPUs
HeyGen ported their 18B+ parameter Avatar IV video generation model to Google Cloud's Trillium (v6e) TPUs via torchax and XLA, utilizing FSDP and Ulysses sequence parallelism across an eight-chip mesh. To achieve a 1.86x speedup for real-ti
Introducing Credentio: Open Source C++ Library for C2PA Content Credentials from Google
Credentio is a newly released, open-source C++ library from Google that allows developers to integrate high-performance, local-first validation of C2PA Content Credentials into their client and server applications. By processing assets enti
How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To
YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a lot of…
Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity. Go directly addresses this new paradigm by uti
Mastering Edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma
Deploying secure, real-time Edge AI on Raspberry Pi is now simplified using LiteRT and lightweight Gemma open models. LiteRT optimizes CPU and GPU performance, delivering fast token speeds for models like Gemma4, enabling real-time local re
Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes…
Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took,…
Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative,…
See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision…
From Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: Understanding the Transition
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it…
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)…
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by…
Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional…
Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature…
Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also…
Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta
Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical…
Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS
On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was…
Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers
Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken…
Kubernetes v1.36: ハル (Haru)
Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality…
The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter
Every container image you pull from registry.k8s.io got there through kpromo, the Kubernetes image promoter. It copies images from staging registries to production, signs them with cosign, replicates signatures across more than 20 regional…
New Conversion from cgroup v1 CPU Shares to v2 CPU Weight
I'm excited to announce the implementation of an improved conversion formula from cgroup v1 CPU shares to cgroup v2 CPU weight. This enhancement addresses critical issues with CPU priority allocation for Kubernetes workloads when running…
Cluster API v1.12: Introducing In-place Updates and Chained Upgrades
Cluster API brings declarative management to Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, allowing users and platform teams to define the desired state of clusters and rely on controllers to continuously reconcile toward it. Similar to how you can use…