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"CPUs are not real metrics." Nicholas Eberts on why custom metrics beat CPU and memory for HPA scaling 📺: ku.bz/jlDL5XzCd

AI should assist the operators, not replace them YongKang He on AI as a co-pilot for SRE 📺: ku.bz/8Q7Vy60P7

This was fun to record/edit. Enjoy!

🗣️ Paul Butler explains why Custom Resource Definitions aren't always the best choice in Kubernetes Watch: ku.bz/Dmn93dd7M

💥 The Kubernetes Automation Trust Gap study found that SREs and platform engineers trust optimization automation much less than engineering directors, even within the same organization. (Link to the report is in the comments.) This makes sense when you consider who gets paged if something breaks. Directors see the savings dashboard, but SREs remember when a so-called safe recommendation reduced headroom just before a traffic spike, causing major issues. One respondent said they would not trust the tool unless it can demonstrate that it understands the SLO impact and blast radius. Good savings numbers alone are not enough.

🗣️ Mike Stefaniak, Head of Product, Kubernetes and Registries at AWS, discusses why organizations keep AI tools in read-only mode for Kubernetes due to insufficient security controls and AI hallucination problems Watch the full interview: ku.bz/PzjrglcZJ

🗣️ Andrew Charlton explains how instance matching addresses the limitations of StatefulSets when managing PostgreSQL clusters Watch: ku.bz/fhZ_pNXM3

🗣️ How do you build SaaS workflows with Kubernetes Operators without turning one CRD into a dumping ground? Alexander Held explains what went wrong with a 2,000-line CRD ku.bz/TGy4Qn7Qs 🌟 LearnKube 🎙 🎙Bart

Network encryption in Kubernetes: why CNI-based options like IPsec and WireGuard aren't equivalent to TLS. John Howard, Senior Software Engineer at Solo.io, explains the differences Watch: ku.bz/sk-ZF1PG9

@boredabdel LFG!!!!!

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@pablonete Hey thank you! Working on recording an EP actually with 2 friends. Got one of 4 tracks recorded so far so hopefully by the end of the summer we'll have it ready and then plan doing a few shows by the end of the year so stay tuned!

@birthmarkbart ¡Flipante! ¿Cuándo y dónde puedo verte en vivo? 🙂

Keep pushing, every move counts!

Day 2 of #GoogleCloudNext started with a run 🏃 and Interview 🎤 for @K8sFM with the one and only @birthmarkbart 🙌 #GoogleCloud #GoogleCloudNext #DevRel

Most organizations prefer one Kubernetes distro, but real deployments are not always that simple Przemysław Wojtunik on operating across on-premise infrastructure and AKS 📺: ku.bz/TJRYGMWV2

🗣️ Alessandro Pomponio, Research Software Engineer @ IBM Research, explains how his team addressed critical resource contention issues by moving from manual cluster administration to a GitOps-first approach Watch the full episode: ku.bz/5sK7BFZ-8

🗣️ Reid Vandewiele shares his perspective on Kubernetes' next decade, identifying complexity management as critical. He hopes AI will simplify operational tasks like auto-scaling as Kubernetes matures Watch the full interview: ku.bz/nSlLGBy5l

My Container Day summary at Google Next 2026. Enjoy!

ByteDance open sources Gödel, their high-performance Kubernetes scheduler, to give back to the open source community Watch: ku.bz/lMpNng_33

"Customers say, I need it to do X — and we can make it do X because the foundation is an agentic framework." Andrew Hillier on what differentiates Kubex 📺: ku.bz/KL4jRvsL4 📣: ku.bz/KL4jRvsL4

"That's one of the biggest gaps we're seeing right now… accurate visibility into what's happening." Phil Trickovic on Tintri's OpenTelemetry announcement 📺: ku.bz/fNT9T1FZZ 📣: ku.bz/Y-Hr_rhZk