⎈ AI Cut Debugging 75%, 60% Less Pods Doubled Traffic, Scaling Django to 1M Users, Kubernetes Bad Practices, PKI & Kubelet Credential Abuse

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📚 Articles

1. How We Cut Build Debugging Time by 75% with a DevEx AI Assistant

2. 🔥 We Cut Our Kubernetes Pods by 60% and Doubled Traffic Capacity

3. Scaling Django SaaS to 1M Users: Async ORM, Caching, and Horizontal Pods

4. Hidden Kubernetes Bad Practices Learned the Hard Way During Incidents

5. Kubernetes PKI & Kubelet Credential Abuse: From Popping a Pod to Owning the Cluster

6. A Non-MDM MDM: Certificate-Based Wi-Fi Without Device Management

7. From Chaos to 99.9% Uptime: Rebuilding a Kubernetes Platform for GPU Workloads

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Migrating Kubernetes Off Big Cloud

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📖 Tutorials

1. Making and scaling a game server in Kubernetes using agones

2. PostgreSQL migration with CloudNativePG Logical Replication on Kubernetes — Zero-Downtime

3. Gateway API setup on GKE with NGINX Gateway Fabric

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

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👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Wozz: Kubernetes Cost Tool

2. Over-Engineered GitOps Homelab

3. k8sql: Kubernetes SQL query

4. Sgl-project/rbg: AI inference orchestrator

5. k8s-d2: Kubernetes visualization

6. GoKubeDownscaler: workload autoscaler

7. kubesdk: Kubernetes SDK

8. Karpenter Optimizer: cost optimization

9. k8sgpt: Kubernetes analyzer

10. cek : Container Exploration Kit

11. Linnix: eBPF Observability & AI Incident Detection for Kubernetes

12. pwru (packet, where are you?)

13. Radar: Kubernetes visibility

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Mar 12

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Munich) 📅 Mar 16

T3chfest 📅 Mar 13

Kubernetes: The Ideal Foundation for a High-Performance open source CDN 📅 Mar 11

Exploring Koordinator 📅 Mar 12

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Cloud Native Days Amsterdam ⏳ closes Mar 20

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Czech & Slovak - Prague 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 1

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 29

🔥 Cloud Native 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 23

SREday Seattle 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 16

SREday San Francisco 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 16

SREday Munich 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 21

SREday Austin 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 12

Devopsdays Feira de Santana ⏳ closes Jun 4

👉 You can find more Call for Papers on Kube Events.

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Until next time!

— Gulcan