Uber Separates Scaling Intent From Execution on Kubernetes Platform

Matt Saunders — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Uber has published a detailed account of its new ServiceScale controller, which allows multiple orchestrators to safely manage the scaling of the same Kubernetes workloads. The blog post, written by senior software engineers Egor Grishechko and Srikar Paruchuru, describes how the company separated scaling intent from execution to support regional failover without carrying reserved idle capacity.

By Matt Saunders

Stateless MCP Removes Session Affinity Requirements for AWS Server Deployments

Leela Kumili — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:58:00 GMT

AWS details how the latest Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol-level sessions, sticky-session requirements, and session storage for remote MCP servers. The change enables independent request routing and simpler horizontal scaling while shifting application state, retries, observability, and idempotency concerns to other layers.

By Leela Kumili

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Uber Separates Scaling Intent From Execution on Kubernetes Platform

Stateless MCP Removes Session Affinity Requirements for AWS Server Deployments