Good apps aren’t born, they’re guided: Building observable policy as code
As parents in tech, we’ve learned that neither children nor applications thrive without clear boundaries. There are no “good” or “bad” kids, just as there are no inherently “good” or “bad” applications, only behaviors shaped by…
CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds
Project reaches broad production adoption for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images across cloud environments Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 11, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems…
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used…
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…