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Article: Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale

Karthiek Maralla — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.

By Karthiek Maralla

QCon London 2026: Wrangling Telemetry at Scale, a Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Renato Losio — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:17:00 GMT

At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate pillars.

By Renato Losio

War in Iran Damages Multiple AWS Data Centers, Challenging Multi-AZ Assumptions

Renato Losio — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:17:00 GMT

Earlier this month, Iranian drone strikes damaged three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, causing outages and disruptions to multiple services. The events, which affected multiple facilities within the same AWS region, sparked discussion in the community about how geopolitical conflict can directly impact global cloud infrastructure and multi-AZ deployments.

By Renato Losio