Tech Radar, April 23, 2026: Kubernetes v1.36 Haru Ships 18 GA Features and Closes the Lifecycle Gap

Kubernetes v1.36 “Haru” shipped on April 22, 2026, one day ago. The release carries 70 enhancements: 18 to stable, 25 to beta, 25 to alpha. After reading the full release notes and the detailed pre-release analysis directly from the source material, the picture that emerges is not a flashy feature drop. It is a release that closes several long-standing lifecycle gaps, hardens the security model in ways that matter for production, and makes a meaningful architectural bet on Dynamic Resource Allocation as the future of GPU and AI workload management. ...

April 23, 2026 · 10 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

Tech Radar, April 18, 2026: Argo CD Turns GitOps Into a Full Lifecycle Discipline

The selected items for pipeline run 32 all revolve around GitOps, but they do more than repeat the same story. After fetching and reading the full source material directly from the original URLs, a clear pattern emerges: GitOps in 2026 is no longer just about syncing manifests from Git to Kubernetes. It is becoming a disciplined lifecycle model for platform operations, with deletion safety, stronger reconciliation semantics, clearer governance boundaries, and increasingly explicit tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized control planes. ...

April 18, 2026 · 8 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

21-Service E-commerce Blueprint: Architecture & Traffic

Answer-first: Complete architectural blueprint of a Go 21-service e-commerce platform. Covers domain boundaries, traffic flow, and event-driven patterns. When transitioning from a monolithic platform to a distributed microservice setup, the hardest question isn’t “How do we write the code?” — it’s “How do these moving parts talk to each other safely, and why is each boundary drawn exactly where it is?” This post is the architectural anchor for the full composable commerce series. It presents the complete system blueprint and explains the reasoning behind each domain boundary. For deep-dives into specific layers, each section links to the dedicated post in the series. ...

April 12, 2026 · 7 min · Lê Tuấn Anh

GitOps at Scale: Kubernetes & ArgoCD for Microservices

Answer-first: Why kubectl apply is dangerous. Learn how to automate a 21-service Go platform using ArgoCD App-of-Apps, Kustomize, and git revert rollbacks. Building 21 well-architected Go microservices is only half the battle. If your deployment process relies on an engineer running kubectl apply from their laptop on a Friday afternoon, you haven’t built an enterprise platform — you’ve built a ticking time bomb. When designing this composable e-commerce ecosystem, we made one hard architectural rule from day one: no human touches the production cluster directly. Everything flows through Git. ArgoCD enforces it. ...

April 12, 2026 · 7 min · Lê Tuấn Anh