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#044 - Scaling Platforms and Pioneering AI Agents with Hasith Kalpage (Outshift by Cisco)

Join us as Hasith Kalpag, Head of Platform Engineering at Outshift by Cisco, shares his fascinating journey. Hear about his experience leading the massive WebEx transformation to cloud-native using Kubernetes, including the intense push during the COVID-19 response, where they went from zero to over 50 production clusters in just three months.

Komodor + Backstage: Bringing Kubernetes Visibility into the Leading Open Source IDP

Platform engineering has emerged as the natural progression of DevOps—not a replacement as some may think, but rather more of a refinement. While DevOps broke down silos and encouraged shared responsibility, it often left teams fending for themselves across sprawling infrastructure stacks. Developers were promised autonomy, but were instead overwhelmed by the burden of managing CI/CD, security, observability, infrastructure provisioning, and more.

Port + Komodor: Bringing Kubernetes Visibility into the Modern Commercial IDP

Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are no longer just an experimental concept—they’re now a foundational component of modern software delivery. As engineering organizations look to reduce cognitive load, increase self-service, and streamline infrastructure workflows, IDPs have emerged as the most effective way to productize platform engineering.

#043 - Gaming on K8s: Stateful Servers, Low Latency, and an Incredible Infra Journey with Siddha...

In this episode, Sid, CEO of Hathora, discusses building game infrastructure, specifically for hosting dedicated servers. He shares how Hathora tackles the challenges of running stateful, low-latency, high-throughput workloads that reconcile player actions up to 60 times per second. Sid explains their approach using Kubernetes to manage compute across bare metal and cloud VMs, leveraging technologies like Talos and Civo's Omni.

The Platform Engineer's Guide to Navigating Kubernetes with Confidence

Kubernetes has quickly made itself known as the de facto platform for today’s applications and the most common way to build an infrastructure platform for application developers. Kubernetes offers immense flexibility and power, but it can introduce its own unique set of operational challenges. If you find yourself spending more time chasing down cluster issues than helping your developers work hassle-free, this guide is for you.

Kubernetes v1.33: An Insider Perspective

I was lucky enough to serve on the v1.33 Release Team as Comms Shadow, and it was truly awe-inspiring to see the inner workings of the world’s biggest open-source project. There is a lot to cover around the structure, governance, processes, and maintenance of the Kubernetes project, but in this blog post, I want to focus on the exciting new features that v1.33 brings and what it means for all of us. Check out the official Kubernetes release blog for more details!