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How NetEase Games Cut LLM Cold Starts From 42 Minutes to 30 Seconds Using Fluid
NetEase Games published a Kubernetes case study walking through how they took their serverless GPU inference cold-start time from 42 minutes down to under 30 seconds. The bottleneck isn't the GPU. It's the 60GB model weights crossing a region. Here is what they did with the CNCF Fluid project and how to apply the same pattern even if you are not on Kubernetes.
OpenTelemetry Just Graduated: What to Retire from Your Stack This Quarter
On May 21, 2026, CNCF graduated OpenTelemetry. All three core signals (traces, metrics, logs) are now production-ready, the project is the second-most-active in CNCF after Kubernetes itself, and Anthropic, Bloomberg, Capital One, eBay, and Heroku run it at scale. Here is the decision framework for what proprietary agents you can stop running, what is still risky, and the 90-day adoption checklist.