Challenge For more than ten years, HDFC Bank’s payments infrastructure reliably supported the organization’s growing digital banking ecosystem. However, the rapid acceleration of digital payment adoption and the emergence of real-time financial services created new requirements…
How a vector database platform eliminated manual operations and cut costs by 40% The organization operated their infrastructure with manual processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As the platform scaled to support enterprise AI/ML workloads, the…
Platform engineering for the agentic enterprise: Managing applications, resources, and AI agents
Platform engineering is evolving Platform engineering has become one of the defining disciplines of the cloud native era. As organizations embraced Kubernetes, microservices, GitOps, and distributed architectures, the complexity of building and operating software grew beyond…
KeycloakCon Japan 2026: Navigating cloud native identity and the AI frontier
The countdown is officially on. In just a few weeks, the cloud-native ecosystem meets in Yokohama for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. Taking place on Tuesday, July 28 from 09:00 – 12:30, KeycloakCon Japan brings together…
Is a Pod the right deployment unit for an AI agent?
When we first started building kagent, we didn’t run every agent in its own Kubernetes Pod, Service, and ServiceAccount. Instead, agents were simply executed inside the kagent runtime. It was the simplest architecture possible: one runtime…
Where should AI workloads run? A sovereign and sensible approach
Opinions on AI range from transformative optimism to deep skepticism, but one thing is clear: AI is becoming an increasingly important part of enterprise technology strategies. Feel free to pick whichever you like. But whatever you…
Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement
1. The Post-March 2026 landscape ⚠ The CatalystAcknowledge the March 2026 retirement of the Kubernetes SIG Network ingress-nginx controller. Staying on this controller introduces severe operational risks, including unpatched CVEs and a complete halt of feature…
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really…
Evolving platform engineering for AI-native workloads
Platform Engineering 1.0 delivered real value. Golden paths accelerated deployment. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) reduced cognitive load for developers. Self-service infrastructure gave developers back hours they had been spending filing tickets. Pipelines provided a standard vehicle to…
How data sovereignty is changing cloud native infrastructure design
The core issue isn’t where your server sits. It’s who can be compelled to hand over what’s on it. For years, cloud providers treated sovereignty as a geography problem. Pick a region. Choose a country. Keep…