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Is VPA "Good Enough"? How Kubex Delivers Enterprise-Ready Workload Optimization

Kubernetes workload rightsizing is one of those tasks everyone agrees is important and almost nobody enjoys doing by hand. Set requests too high and you pay for capacity that sits idle; set them too low and you invite CPU throttling, out-of-memory kills, and late-night pages. It’s no surprise, then, that many teams reach for the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) as their first step toward automated rightsizing.

18: Building an Agentic Future: AI and Optimization with Sachin Gharge

On today's episode, Andrew Hillier chats with Sachin Gharge, Head of Cloud Platform at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). They discuss AI, agents, Kubernetes, MCP, and optimization. Sachin shares how he and his team are optimizing cloud costs, leveraging automation, and experimenting with agentic AI, including bots and Slack integrations, to make operations easier and more effective for developers and the business.