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Waiting for a large AI container image to pull before your workload starts?

Phil Estes from AWS on how SOCI lazy loading cuts that wait down





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Become an expert in Kubernetes!

LearnKube runs its iconic 4-day Advanced Kubernetes course next week!

If you want to get your hands dirty with Kubernetes, join us for a workshop packed with hands-on labs!

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"VPC flow logs give you IPs. Kubernetes gives you pods. Correlating the two is the real blind spot."

Elamaran Shanmugam on network traffic visibility



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"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





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🗣️ Zain Malik explains how his team overcame limitations when implementing Cluster API for managed Kubernetes services like AKS, originally designed for self-managed clusters

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

☁️ Event-Driven Architecture Missing Standards
🔥 Sandboxes for AI
🔐 Securing East-West Traffic
💥 Chaos Engineering Best Practices
📊 AWS Monitoring Platform

⭐️ Portworx

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/179

"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



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🗣️ William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant, discusses the successful model for operating Kubernetes: platform owners build infrastructure while developers focus on business logic

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🗣️ David Pech discusses the critical evaluation process before implementing Postgres as a Service on Kubernetes

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Delete a Pod from a Deployment and a new one appears.

The API server didn't create it. The scheduler didn't schedule it yet. A controller inside the controller manager noticed the count was wrong and created a replacement before anything else happened.

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🗣️ Nicholaos Mouzourakis explains how Go's default thread management clashed with Kubernetes CPU limits, causing performance issues. The solution? Reducing GOMAXPROCS

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"Before Hadron, we were retrofitting general-purpose OS. Now we have a minimal system designed exclusively for edge workloads."

Ettore Di Giacinto on the shift



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Routing. Engine. Caching. Orchestration. Nodes. That's RECON — a framework for the AI inference stack

Tsahi Duek on the five layers every AI platform needs



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Ingress has two core problems: annotation sprawl and role mixing

Sai Vennam explains why those two problems pushed the Kubernetes community toward the Gateway API



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Intuit celebrates Numaproj — a Kubernetes-native, serverless platform for building scalable, reliable event-driven applications. Check out the project here: https://ku.bz/PQ-hn3ZCm

"NumaFlow is primarily Kubernetes-native while others are not."

Sriharsha Yayi on how NumaFlow differs from Flink, Spark, and Kafka Streams



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🗣️ Tanat Lokejaroenlarb explains why EKS in-place upgrades are far more complex than the "one-click" perception many have

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

🔥 RCE via Nodes/Proxy
🦅 Chaos to Engineering Excellence
☸️ Extended Toleration Operators
🔄 K8S to ECS Fargate
🗄️ SQL Server on AKS with GitOps

⭐️ StormForge

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/178

GKE Autopilot in Standard mode. llm-d to CNCF. Agent Sandbox. MCP server. Ray on TPUs

Abdel Sghiouar from Google Cloud runs through every Kubernetes announcement at KubeCon EU 2026





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Michael Levan redefines platform engineering as a combination of customer service & product development, focusing on making teams' lives easier

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KubeProxy routes once per connection, not per request. For gRPC, some pods burn at 80% CPU while others sit idle

Rohit Agrawal from Databricks on replacing it with proxy-less, client-side load balancing

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