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What production is teaching us.

Engineering notes from operating open infrastructure: the failures, design decisions, and upstream work that make open infrastructure better.

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OpenStackAugust 13, 2026

VEXXHOST Is Heading to ALL IN 2026

Join VEXXHOST at ALL IN 2026 in Montreal! Visit Booth M30 for live demos, giveaways, and conversations about sovereign AI infrastructure and open-source cloud.

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OpenStackAugust 13, 2026

Production-Ready Private Cloud Checklist

Learn what makes a private cloud production-ready, from high availability and storage to security, observability, recovery, capacity, and operations.

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OpenStackAugust 12, 2026

Predictable and Unpredictable Workloads, and Where Each One Belongs

Elasticity is a feature you pay for. It is worth it for a viral spike, but wasted on flat baseline load. A framework for measuring your peak-to-median ratio and placing workloads where they belong.

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When OpenStack is Not a Good Fit for Your Team
May 25, 2026
OpenStack isn't the right answer for every team or workload, and knowing when it isn't matters as much as knowing when it is. An honest guide to fit, from a team that's been operating it since 2011.
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Most organizations waste 95% of their GPU spend without knowing it. Run this five minute audit to find the leaks and fix them before the next invoice.
May 20, 2026
The fix to platform team understaffing isn't hiring more — it's building on infrastructure where monitoring, security, and upgrades come built in.
May 15, 2026
Upstream contribution costs real engineering time. It also compounds over time in ways that internal fixes never do. What fifteen years of contributing to OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph actually looks like.
May 14, 2026
A technical deep-dive into how Navos manages zero-downtime Kubernetes cluster upgrades — the sequencing, primitives, and operational process behind every upgrade.
May 13, 2026
The cloud first era is over. AI, regulation, and cost pressure are driving a shift to control first. Learn what changed and how open infrastructure fits.
May 8, 2026
Atmosphere isn't the right fit for every workload, and we're candidly sharing when it isn't. A guide to the genuine non-fits, and the four reasons teams incorrectly rule themselves out.
May 7, 2026
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Training and inference have fundamentally different infrastructure needs. Learn what your Kubernetes platform must handle for GPU scheduling, storage, networking, and autoscaling across the full MLOps lifecycle.
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Is your infrastructure ready for AI workloads? Evaluate compute, storage, networking, and orchestration layer by layer to find the gaps before they stall you.