platform engineering

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

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

GitOps Under Fire: Resilience Lessons from GitProtect’s Mid-Year 2025 Incident Report
GitOps may power cloud-native delivery, but rising outages and breaches across GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Azure DevOps expose just how fragile today’s pipelines really are ...
Alan Shimel | | Azure DevOps pipelines, Bitbucket reliability, CI/CD disruption, cloud-native delivery, DevOps platform outages, GitHub incidents, GitLab breach, GitOps dependencies, GitOps resilience, GitOps security, GitProtect report 2025, internal developer platforms, Jira downtime, Kubernetes GitOps, platform engineering, resilience engineering, self-healing infrastructure, SRE practices, supply chain stability, zero-trust DevOps

Kubernetes Has Become Boring — That’s a Good Thing
Nearly 10 years on, Kubernetes has become the invisible backbone of cloud-native infrastructure—stable, trusted and still quietly evolving ...

Cloud Native’s Two‑Headed Monster
Kubernetes brought order to containers. Observability brought clarity to complexity. Now, they’re co-leading the cloud-native movement—and redefining the CNCF ecosystem ...

Why Kubernetes 1.33 Is a Turning Point for MLOps — and Platform Engineering
With Kubernetes v1.33, that point has arrived for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) infrastructure. ...

Komodor Extends Kubernetes Management Reach to IDPs
Komodor this week revealed it has integrated its platform for managing Kubernetes clusters with internal developer portals (IDPs), starting with the open source Backstage and the proprietary Port platform. Company CTO Itiel ...

Platform9 Adds Free Community Edition of Private Cloud Platform
Platform9 this week at the Kubecon + CloudNative Europe 2025 conference, unfurled a free Community Edition of its Private Cloud Director platform for deploying virtual machines that has no hidden fees or ...

Why Teams, Not Just Tools, Drive Cloud-Native Success
Cloud-native is not a project with a defined endpoint — it is a continuous process of learning and adapting and is more than just a trend ...