_{Greetings, friends!} 

_{We have sifted through the silicon sands to bring you the freshest tech news to admire, Kubernetes quirks to apply, and the upcoming webinars to join.}

_{Consider this your cheat sheet to staying ahead in a world where "MCP" isn't just a fast-food craving.}

_{Enjoy the C-Growth Guide!}

• _{TSMC's upcoming 2nm microchip is a breakthrough. Here's what it means for the future of tech — from AI to smartphones.}

• _{AI policy alert: What you need to know about the EU AI Act}

• _{Cloud startup Nirvana Labs raises $6M seed extension, hoping to reduce crypto's reliance on AWS and Google Cloud}

• _{OpenAI releases HealthBench dataset to test AI in health care}

• _{AWS adds MCP support to Amazon Q Developer Platform}

• _{User Namespaces ON by default – container UID isolation without seccomp gymnastics}

• _{Image Pull Policy now truly “IfNotPresent” (avoids surprise re-pulls)}

• _{Volume Populators → GA, Image Volumes → Beta – big for data-heavy stateful sets}

• _{HPA configurable tolerance, Streaming List API, EndpointSlice migration continuations}

• _{Kubelet 30s grace period when unregistering drivers – smoother CSI rollouts}

GrafanaCON 2025: Observability as Code meets GenAI

• _{Grafana 12 – new JSON dashboard spec, Git Sync (dashboards ⇆ GitHub PRs), “dashboards-as-code” CLI (grafanactl)}

• _{Private-preview Grafana Assistant – an agentic LLM that auto-writes queries/dashboards from chat prompts}

• _{Donation of Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) → OpenTelemetry project, renamed OTel-eBPF Instrumentation}

• _{Prometheus 3.0 and Mimir 3.0 previews; Grafana k6 1.0 GA}

Data Innovation Summit 2025: The "reunion feel" of the 10th anniversary

• _{Responsible / Trustworthy AI goes mainstream – every Gen-AI session baked in monitoring, bias-testing, and EU-AI-Act mapping.}

• _{Data-mesh pragmatism – “start with thin contracts, not federated committees” became the unofficial mantra.}

• _{LLMOps is the new MLOps – vector-DB selection, hybrid search, and GPU-cost telemetry were hot hallway topics.}

• _{Real-time everywhere – from streaming OLAP in retail to low-latency feature stores for autonomous systems.}

• _{AI-for-Ops – AI agents automatically tuning warehouse workloads and forecasting cloud spend drew packed rooms.}

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