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Security Tool Sprawl: The New Breach Vector for Cloud Native
“More is better” has always been a dangerous assumption in tech. In security, it’s downright reckless. Across the cloud-native ecosystem, organizations are drowning in their own defenses: dozens of overlapping tools, agents, ...

You are More Likely to Land a Lead-Level Cloud-Native Role Than a Junior One!
Cloud-native job market 2025: Software Engineers dominate at 47%, followed by DevOps, Platform Engineers, and SREs. See role trends and insights ...

eBPF: The Silent Power Behind Cloud Native’s Next Phase
eBPF is quietly reshaping cloud native computing, powering service meshes, observability, networking, and security directly in the Linux kernel. By reducing sidecar overhead, enabling zero-instrumentation telemetry, and enhancing runtime protection, eBPF is ...
Alan Shimel | | Cilium eBPF, cloud native 2.0, eBPF, eBPF in DevOps, eBPF networking, eBPF performance monitoring, eBPF security, extended Berkeley Packet Filter, Falco eBPF, Istio Ambient Mesh eBPF, kernel-level programmability, Kubernetes eBPF, Linux kernel observability, Pixie observability, service mesh without sidecars, Tetragon runtime security, zero-instrumentation observability

vCluster Embraces Karpenter for Dynamic Scaling of Virtual Kubernetes Nodes
vCluster Labs today added an ability to automatically scale nodes running on a virtual Kubernetes cluster. Company CEO Lukas Gentele said the Auto Nodes capability added to the vCluster platform are enabled ...

Shimmy’s Early Look: Can’t-Miss Sessions at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
CNCF turns 10 as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 heads to Atlanta this November. With 300+ sessions on Kubernetes, AI, platform engineering, security, and observability, the event showcases the next decade ...
Alan Shimel | | AI workloads on Kubernetes, cloud native AI, cloud native events, CloudNativeCon 2025, CNCF community, DevOps conferences 2025, KubeCon 2025, KubeCon keynotes, Kubernetes conference Atlanta, Kubernetes security, multi-cluster orchestration, observability Kubernetes, platform engineering, supply chain security

Fitting Square Kubernetes Into the Round AI-Native Apps
Kubernetes tamed cloud-native workloads, but AI-native apps push its limits. Can it evolve for GPU-first, data-intensive AI — or is it time for new control planes? ...
Alan Shimel | | AI control plane, AI infrastructure, AI pipelines Kubernetes, AI-native applications, cloud-native vs AI-native, container orchestration AI, distributed training orchestration, GPU scheduling, inference at scale, internal developer platforms, Kubeflow, KubeRay, kubernetes, Kubernetes AI workloads, Kubernetes future, Kubernetes limitations, Kubernetes vs AI, platform engineering, Ray on Kubernetes, Volcano scheduler

Best Practices for Monitoring Your Kubernetes Applications
Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern cloud-native applications, offering unique flexibility and scalability. However, with its complexity, there are significant challenges in maintaining visibility of the health and performance of Kubernetes ...

From Observability to Actionability: Why Metrics Alone Aren’t Enough
Observability has plateaued. The next step is actionable observability—using AI, automation, and SLOs to turn telemetry into reliable outcomes ...
Alan Shimel | | actionable observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, auto-remediation, cloud native, continuous verification, devops, ELK stack, golden paths, internal developer platforms, metrics logs traces, observability, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, SLO-driven operations, SRE, telemetry automation

Driving Business Value Through Cloud-Native Architectures: Insights for CTOs
Cloud-native architectures empower CTOs with agility, scalability and innovation. Learn best practices for leveraging containers, Kubernetes, DevOps & AI ...
Bhaskar Dhawan | | AI and DevOps integration, cloud cost optimization, cloud modernization leadership, cloud scalability and resilience, cloud transformation, cloud-native architectures, cloud-native best practices, cloud-native security compliance, containers and microservices, CTO strategy, DevOps and cloud native, enterprise digital transformation, future-proof cloud strategy, Kubernetes orchestration, serverless architecture

Practical Tips for Advanced Use of Kubernetes Gateway API
Learn advanced strategies for Kubernetes Gateway API adoption — from custom GatewayClasses to multi-cluster routing and observability-driven SLO enforcement ...
Nell Jerram | | Calico Enterprise Gateway API, GAMMA Kubernetes service mesh, Gateway API custom classes, Gateway API vs Ingress, Kubernetes cloud-native routing, Kubernetes Gateway API, Kubernetes microservices networking, Kubernetes networking best practices, Kubernetes observability Prometheus, Kubernetes service networking, Kubernetes SLO enforcement, Kubernetes traffic mirroring, Kubernetes traffic routing, multi-cluster Kubernetes networking, traffic splitting Kubernetes