Topics

Running production workloads on Kubernetes — runtimes, service mesh, operators, registries, and multi-cluster orchestration.

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• container runtimes
• containerd
• CRI-O
• Helm
• +14

Designing systems that live in the cloud — multi-cloud, serverless, microservices, event-driven patterns, and disaster recovery.

• multi-cloud strategy
• hybrid cloud
• serverless architecture
• microservices
• event-driven architecture
• cloud-native design patterns
• +12

Managing infrastructure through code — Terraform, Pulumi, GitOps, policy as code, and the platforms that abstract over them.

• Terraform
• Pulumi
• CloudFormation
• CDK
• Ansible
• configuration management
• +11

Knowing what your systems are doing in production — metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and the pipelines that move telemetry around.

• monitoring
• logging
• tracing
• metrics
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• +15

Moving packets between services and to users — CDN, DNS, ingress, VPC design, eBPF, and modern proxy architectures.

• CDN
• DNS
• load balancing
• edge computing
• ingress controllers
• network policies
• +14

Where your data lives and how it stays consistent — relational, NoSQL, vector, warehouses, lakes, caches, and replication strategies.

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• MongoDB
• Cassandra
• +19

Managing what the cloud actually costs — allocation, reservations, right-sizing, unit economics, and the culture around spend.

• cloud cost management
• FinOps
• cost allocation
• tagging strategies
• reserved instances
• savings plans
• +11