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S8E17 The Hidden Cost of Slow Autoscaling, with John Ford
Forced platform migrations are usually treated as something to survive. At Scout24, a mandatory OS migration became an opportunity to rethink Kubernetes autoscaling, node provisioning, and…
S8E16 The Namespaces Scaling Trap, with Brian Stack
Most teams scale Kubernetes by thinking about pods and nodes. At Render, Brian Stack ran into a different dimension: hundreds of thousands of namespaces per cluster, multiplied across DaemonSets that…
S8E15 AI Agents Running Kubernetes, with Mike Solomon
What happens when an AI agent stops generating Kubernetes YAML and starts operating the cluster directly?Mike Solomon, software engineer at AIATELLA, explains how his team moved from a sprawling Helm…
S8E14 SaaS with Kubernetes Operators and Garbage Collection, with Alexander Held
A single Kubernetes CRD for every service request turns small changes into full-platform reconciliations.Alexander Held, former platform engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, describes a…
S8E13 What Hip-Hop Can Teach Us About Kubernetes, with Kelsey Hightower, Eric Abercrombie, and Julius Payne II
Kelsey Hightower, Eric Abercrombie, and Julius Payne II reflect on life after achievement, entering the Kubernetes world for the first time, and how music, creativity, and lived experience shape the…
S8E12 Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing, with Rohit Agrawal
You're running gRPC services in Kubernetes, load balancing looks fine on the dashboard — but some pods are burning at 80% CPU while others sit idle, and adding more replicas only partially…
S8E11 That Time I Found a Service Account Token in my Log Files, with Vincent von Büren
You're integrating HashiCorp Vault into your Kubernetes cluster and adding a temporary debug log line to check whether the ServiceAccount token is being passed correctly. Three months later, that log…
S8E10 GPU Containers as a Service, with Landon Clipp
Running GPU workloads on Kubernetes sounds straightforward until you need to isolate multiple tenants on the same server. The moment you virtualize GPUs for security, you lose access to NVIDIA kernel…
S8E9 How We Cut Build Debugging Time by 75% with AI, with Ron Matsliah
Build failures in Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines are a silent productivity killer. Developers spend 45+ minutes scrolling through cryptic logs, often just hitting rerun and hoping for the best.Ron…
S8E8 Migrating Kubernetes Off Big Cloud, with Fernando Duran
Managed Kubernetes on a major cloud provider can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month — and much of that spending hides behind defaults, minimum resource ratios, and auxiliary services…
S8E7 Migrating to Karpenter: Fun Stories, with Adhi Sutandi
Running multiple Kubernetes clusters on AWS with the cluster autoscaler? Every four months, you face the same grind: upgrading Kubernetes versions, recreating auto scaling groups, and hoping instance…
S8E6 From ECS to Kubernetes: A Real Migration Story, with Radosław Miernik
Migrating from ECS to Kubernetes sounds straightforward — until you hit spot capacity failures, firewall rules silently dropping traffic, and memory metrics that lie to your autoscaler.Radosław…
S8E5 Faster EKS Node and Pod Startup, with Jan Ludvik
Kubernetes nodes on EKS can take over a minute to become ready, and pods often wait even longer — but most teams never look into why.Jan Ludvik, Senior Staff Reliability Engineer at Outreach, shares…
S8E4 Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday, with Thibault Martin
You self-host services at home, but upgrades break things, rollbacks require SSH-ing in to kill containers manually, and there's no safety net if your hardware fails.Thibault Martin, Director of…
S8E3 Patroni Backups: when pgBackRest and Argo CD have your back (literally), with Ziv Yatzik
Your database backup strategy shouldn't be the thing that takes your production systems down.Ziv Yatzik manages 600+ Postgres clusters in a closed network environment with no public cloud. After…
S8E2 Running a Full Kubernetes Cluster for $2 a Month, with Varnit Goyal
Most developers assume Kubernetes requires an enterprise budget. Varnit Goyal proves otherwise — he built a full three-node Kubernetes cluster for $2.16/month using Rackspace Spot Instances.The…
S8E1 We Broke Our EKS Cluster Autoscaler with the AL2023 Migration, with Dilshan Wijesooriya
Dilshan Wijesooriya, Senior Cloud Engineer, discusses a real incident where migrating EKS nodes to AL2023 caused the cluster autoscaler to lose AWS permissions silently.You will learn:Why AL2023…
S7E17 A Journey Through Kafkian SplitDNS in a Multitenant Kubernetes, with Fabián Sellés Rosa
Fabián Sellés Rosa, Tech Lead of the Runtime team at Adevinta, walks through a real engineering investigation that started with a simple request: allowing tenants to use third-party Kafka services.…
S7E16 More Kubernetes Than I Bargained For, with Amos Wenger
Amos Wenger walks through his production incident where adding a home computer as a Kubernetes node caused TLS certificate renewals to fail. The discussion covers debugging techniques using tools…
S7E15 The Karpenter Effect: Redefining Kubernetes Operations, with Tanat Lokejaroenlarb
Tanat Lokejaroenlarb shares the complete journey of replacing EKS Managed Node Groups and Cluster Autoscaler with AWS Karpenter. He explains how this migration transformed their Kubernetes…
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