Contributed Content
How to Implement Shift-Left Security in Cloud-Native Applications?
Most security teams still treat cloud-native security as something to handle after deployment. That approach is costing them more than they realize. According to research, the average cost of a data breach ...
Beyond the Runbook: How to Scale SRE Operations for Cloud-Native Infrastructure
The uncomfortable truth is plain for all to see: Trying to keep dynamic, living systems running with static runbook methodologies is dead thinking... What’s emerging to replace the runbook is a machine ...
The Inference Bottleneck: Architecting Kubernetes Autoscaling for Production LLMs
Generative AI (GenAI) is moving into production, but native Kubernetes autoscaling is fundamentally broken for large language model (LLM) inference ...
Why Observability is Critical for Modern Cloud‑Native Systems
In the future, observability will be a key factor for any organization looking to succeed with the concept of cloud native architectures ...
Designing Cloud-Native Performance Management Platforms That Scale Across the Enterprise
By taking a cloud-first approach to SPM design, companies can quickly scale sales performance management up or down as needed while ensuring that data used to inform quota, commission and capacity values is timely, accurate and reliable. ...
How Cloud‑Native DevOps is Accelerating Software Delivery
Cloud-native DevOps is no longer a buzzword; it’s a reality, a way of life, a manner in which we develop, ship and deliver our software today ...
The Questions Every Team Asks About Docker Sandboxes
Docker Sandboxes launched in March 2026. Since then, I’ve heard the same questions at meetups, on Slack, and during Docker Captain briefings. Instead of writing another overview piece, I want to answer ...
Architecting Enterprise GitOps: Scaling Argo CD on OKE
The industry is shifting to pull-based GitOps with Argo CD to solve configuration drift across Kubernetes fleets ...
Pavan Madduri | | App-of-Apps Pattern, ApplicationSets, Argo CD, automation, Cloud Controller Manager (CCM), Configuration Drift, continuous deployment, Enterprise Cloud-Native., External Secrets Operator (ESO), GitOps, IAM Policies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes Secret Management, multi-cluster orchestration, OCI Flexible Load Balancer, OCI Vault, OCIR, OIDC, OKE, Oracle Kubernetes Engine, Private VCN, Pull-based CI/CD, workload identity, Zero-Trust Architecture
Deploying Docker AI Agents on OCI and OKE
This guide details the architectural transition of AI agents from experimental scripts to "first-class production workloads" using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). It emphasizes a zero-trust, scalable approach ...
Pavan Madduri | | Agentic Architecture, AI, AI agents, containerization, Data Minimization, docker, Event-Driven Autoscaling, GitOps, infrastructure as code, kagent, KEDA, Kubernetes CRD, Kyverno, LLM Inference, MCP server, Model Context Protocol, oci, OCI Generative AI, OCI Vault, OCIR, OKE, OpenTelemetry, Oracle Kubernetes Engine, Production Workloads., Terraform, Virtual Nodes, Zero-Trust Security
Kubernetes in Production: Where Platform Decisions Break Down
Kubernetes is often described as “free,” but that assumption falls apart in production. What looks like a complete platform is only a foundation. Everything required to run real workloads reliably sits outside ...

