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  • The Optimal – June 2026
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    The Optimal – June 2026

    In the June 2026 edition: why Netflix says CPU utilization alone tells you nothing, the two misconfigurations behind Spark OOM…

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  • The Optimal – May 2026
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    The Optimal – May 2026

    In the May 2026 edition: hunting CPU zombies in Kubernetes, when observability becomes the outage, and how JDK 27’s compact…

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  • The Optimal – April 2026
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    The Optimal – April 2026

    In the April 2026 edition: engineering cost-efficient microservices with backend FinOps, why Java pods keep hitting Kubernetes OOMKills, and the…

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  • The Optimal – March 2026
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    The Optimal – March 2026

    In the March 2026 edition: why cloud cost is really a distributed systems bug, the performance debt left behind by…

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  • The Optimal – February 2026
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    The Optimal – February 2026

    In the February 2026 edition: how LinkedIn saved 275,000 GPU hours with full-stack optimization, the JDK 26 initial heap change…

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  • The Optimal – January 2026
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    The Optimal – January 2026

    In the January 2026 edition: in-place Pod vertical scaling goes GA in Kubernetes v1.35, why QA is shifting left into…

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