Topic
Cloud Native
My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Cloud Native.
Selected work
Eduardo Ordax — Principal GTM GenAI at AWS
The reality of GenAI in production — why organizational culture is the biggest blocker, scaling non-deterministic LLM systems, and what separates AI winners from experimenters.
Alexey Grigorev — Founder of DataTalks.Club
How a chain of reasonable-sounding decisions led an AI coding agent to run terraform destroy against a live production database — and the guardrails that separate moving fast from losing everything.
Half of Kubernetes Clusters Are About to Lose Security Updates
A deep dive into the Kubernetes support lifecycle and what it means for the massive number of clusters running end-of-life versions.
Kubernetes 1.34: Security, Performance, and DRA Go GA
Release lead Vyom Yadav unpacks 58+ enhancements: DRA GA for GPU workloads, mutating admission policies, and major API server performance gains.
Chase Roberts — COO at Northflank
Operating a developer platform company and the reliability challenges of running infrastructure for others.
Marino Wijay — Staff Solutions Architect at Kong
API gateway architecture, service mesh patterns, and reliability at the network edge.
Uplevelling Your Container Lifecycle Management
Best practices for managing the full container lifecycle — from build to runtime to decommission.
Dependency and Runtime Management
Strategies for managing dependencies and runtimes in containerized environments — keeping images secure and up to date.
Buildpacks Optimization, Portability and Lifecycle
Advanced buildpacks techniques for optimizing build times, ensuring portability across clouds, and managing lifecycle updates.
Mariano Cocirio — Staff Software Engineer at Vercel
Frontend infrastructure reliability, edge computing, and the operational side of Vercel's platform.
Modern PostgreSQL Deployment: 3 Cloud Native Approaches You Should Know
Comparing three cloud native approaches to deploying and managing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes — operators, managed services, and hybrid models.
Boost Your Shipping Velocity With Argo and Buildpacks
Combining Argo Workflows with Cloud Native Buildpacks to create a fast, repeatable CI/CD pipeline that eliminates Dockerfile maintenance.
Harbor: the artifacts registry
Harbor maintainer Vadim Bauer walks through container image management, OCI artifact storage, replication for disaster recovery, and storing AI models.
Streamlined APM Integration in Cloud Native Buildpacks
How to embed application performance monitoring directly into your buildpack pipeline without modifying application code.
How to Streamline the Java Application Containerization Process
Simplifying Java app containerization with buildpacks — skip the Dockerfile complexity and let the platform handle the build.
How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps
PaaS commands a $170B share of the cloud market, yet manual deployments persist. A practical framework for workload APIs that goes beyond Heroku-style apps.
Scaling on Kubernetes With Open Source Korifi
How Korifi brings Cloud Foundry's developer experience to Kubernetes, enabling simple app scaling without deep K8s knowledge.
Deploy Multilanguage Apps to Kubernetes with Open Source Korifi
Using Korifi to deploy polyglot applications to Kubernetes with the simplicity of Cloud Foundry's cf push experience.
No US SaaS for European businesses?
The growing tension between US SaaS providers and European data sovereignty requirements — what it means for cross-Atlantic business.
The Future of Data on Kubernetes with Adobe and CNCF
Panel with Joseph Sandoval and Xing Yang on the future of data on Kubernetes — storage, stateful workloads, and the evolving CNCF landscape.
Private SaaS: a new gold standard?
Exploring the rise of private SaaS deployments as a response to data sovereignty concerns and enterprise security requirements.
Overcoming Kubernetes Namespace Limitations
Kubernetes namespaces have limits. How to work around them for multi-tenant clusters, resource isolation, and organizational scaling.
Why Are Operators Paramount to Running Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes?
DoKC panel on why Kubernetes operators are essential for managing stateful workloads — database operations, storage patterns, and automation.
How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles
94% of orgs deploy on Kubernetes, but stateful workloads remain hard. Six principles covering operators, storage classes, StatefulSets, and Day 2 operations.
Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes Are a Thing, but There Is a Twist
Running databases and stateful services on Kubernetes is possible — but requires understanding operators, persistent volumes, and Day 2 operations.
Create an Open Source AWS S3 Server
A hands-on guide to setting up your own S3-compatible object storage server using open source tools.