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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

How Cloud-Native Technologies Are Revolutionizing Contact Centers
Modern customer service is evolving rapidly, driven by rising customer expectations and the growing pressure to deliver seamless experiences across channels. For years, legacy contact center infrastructure has struggled to keep pace, ...

Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open
In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...

The GitOps Plateau – Have We Stopped Innovating?
GitOps adoption is steady but innovation has slowed. AI-native GitOps could be the breakthrough that makes Kubernetes delivery smarter, safer, and scalable ...
Alan Shimel | | AI-native GitOps, ArgoCD GitOps, event-driven GitOps, Flux GitOps, GitOps and AI, GitOps automation, GitOps for multi-cloud, GitOps future, GitOps innovation, GitOps plateau, GitOps platform engineering, GitOps reconciliation, Kubernetes delivery, Kubernetes YAML automation, policy-as-code GitOps

CNCF Elevates Platform for Managing Bare Metal Servers Running Kubernetes
CNCF elevates Metal3.io to incubation, advancing open-source automation for managing Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure ...
Mike Vizard | | AI workloads bare metal, Baremetal Operator BMO, cloud-native infrastructure automation, Cluster API Provider Metal3 CAPM3, CNCF incubation project, CNCF open source projects, Ericsson Metal3, Ironic framework, Kubernetes automation, Kubernetes bare metal, Kubernetes infrastructure management, Kubernetes on bare metal, Kubernetes operators, Metal3.io, Red Hat Metal3