Cloud Native Compass
by Rawkode Academy
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Navigating Kairos: Immutable Operating Systems with a Cloud Native…
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About this podcast
The podcast that helps you navigate your way through Kubernetes and Cloud Native trends.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 24 episodes
- Navigating Kairos: Immutable Operating Systems with a Cloud Native Twist · 40 min · Episode 24Mauro Morales and Dimitris Karakasilis explain how Kairos turns any Linux distribution into an immutable, A/B-upgradeable OS shipped as an OCI image, and where it fits alongside…
- Flatcar Linux: A Modern OS for the Always-On Infrastructure · 51 min · Episode 23Flatcar maintainers Thilo, Mathieu, and Chewy explain the immutable A/B partition layout, Ignition provisioning, systemd-sysext for Kubernetes, LUKS/TPM disk encryption, and how…
- Platform Engineering: Asking "Why"? with Evelyn Osman · 44 min · Episode 22Evelyn Osman joins David and Laura to defend AWK and Bash, argue platform engineering must start by asking "why", and pick apart whether every workload really belongs on…
- AI-Augmented Programming · 42 min · Episode 21Laura quizzes David on how he uses Claude as a CLI coding partner across the Rawkode Academy monorepo, why he calls it smart coding rather than vibe coding, and the trade-offs…
- Observability for Developers: What You Need to Know? · 49 min · Episode 20Adriana Villela explains why developers, not observability teams, should instrument their own code. We cover OpenTelemetry's auto vs manual instrumentation, sampling and cost…
- The Future of Sustainability in Open Source · 48 min · Episode 19Hazel Weakly unpacks open source sustainability through Eleanor Ostrom's commons principles, covering reciprocity, governance, VC funding pitfalls, maintainer burnout, and why…
- Atlantis: The Terraform Automation Powerhouse · 40 min · Episode 18Pepe Amengual, a core maintainer of Atlantis, joins David and Laura to walk through the Terraform pull request automation server: how it runs plan and apply from PR comments…
- Java for Serverless Functions · 30 min · Episode 17Otavio Santana joins Laura and David to dispel myths about modern Java on Kubernetes. They cover JVM container awareness, GraalVM native compilation for serverless cold starts…
- Dapr: The Future of Microservices · 53 min · Episode 16Mark Fussell, CEO of Diagrid, explains how Dapr's building blocks (pub/sub, state, workflows, virtual actors) tame microservice complexity, and how Dapr Agents extends that same…
- Simplifying Kubernetes Adoption Challenges · 37 min · Episode 15Koray Oksay (Kubermatic, CNCF Ambassador) joins David to discuss why Kubernetes adoption still trips up teams: skipping container fundamentals, picking between managed services…
- Cloud Server-Side WebAssembly · 38 min · Episode 14Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj from Fermyon joins David and Laura to unpack Spin 3.0, WASI 0.3, and the WebAssembly component model. They cover running Wasm on Kubernetes via SpinKube…
- Navigating Kubernetes: Insights, Challenges, and the Release Cycle with Kat Cosgrove · 39 min · Episode 13Kat Cosgrove joins David and Laura to unpack how SIG Release ships Kubernetes: team structure, CI signal, bug triage, press embargoes, maintainer burnout, and why a Kubernetes…
- From Kubernetes to Cloud Run: Chainguard's Journey · 56 min · Episode 12Jason Hall walks through Chainguard's migration of its image-serving infrastructure from Kubernetes and Knative to Google Cloud Run, covering multi-region Terraform modules…
- InfluxDB 3 & Rust · 56 min · Episode 11InfluxDB, a time series database, underwent a major rewrite to create InfluxDB 3.0, also known as IOx. The decision to rewrite the database was driven by the need for strict…
- Trust and Validation in AI · 43 min · Episode 10JJ Asgar joins to discuss IBM watsonx.ai and why enterprises distrust today's black-box AI. The conversation covers training data provenance, The Pile, Hugging Face…
- The Magic of eBPF · 32 min · Episode 9Liz Rice explains how eBPF lets you safely run programs inside the Linux kernel, why the verifier makes it safer than kernel modules, and how projects like Cilium, Falco, and…
- Ambient Mesh with Marino Wijay & Matt Turner · 49 min · Episode 8Marino Wijay and Matt Turner unpack Istio Ambient Mesh, walking through ztunnel, HBONE, and waypoint proxies, the trade-offs against sidecars, and how eBPF, CNI plugins, and the…
- Is WebAssembly the Future of Cloud Native? · 43 min · Episode 7In this episode, hosts David and Laura, sit down with Laslo Fogas; a self proclaimed WebAssembly sceptic. They discuss the future of Cloud Native and improving the broken…
- Event-Driven Architectures at Wix · 46 min · Episode 6Natan Silnitsky shares how Wix operates 2,500+ microservices and 70 billion Kafka events per day. We cover when to choose event-driven over RPC, schema evolution with Confluent…
- Kubernetes Security with Identity & OIDC · 39 min · Episode 5Marc Boorshtein, CTO of Tremolo Security, explains why long-lived kubeconfig certificates are an anti-pattern, how OIDC and impersonation deliver revocable cluster access, and…
