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KubeCon EU 2025 Recap: Kubernetes Meets AI - a New Decade of Cloud Native development

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 just concluded in London, bringing together thousands of cloud-native engineers, maintainers, and enthusiasts. As a local Distributed Systems Engineer involved in the Kubernetes community and ecosystem, attending in person was both energizing and insightful.

A central theme emerged across sessions: Kubernetes is rapidly evolving beyond microservices, adapting to support batch workloads, AI/ML training, HPC scenarios, and global-scale multi-cluster deployments. This shift isn’t just technical - it’s reshaping the cloud-native landscape and redefining how we think about workload orchestration, scheduling, and autoscaling.

FOSDEM 2025 Recap

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:19:03 +0200

FOSDEM 2025, one of the largest open-source conferences globally, concluded last week, featuring an array of talks, workshops, and community events. Held annually in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM gathers developers, contributors, and enthusiasts from around the world to explore the latest trends, projects, and innovations in the open-source ecosystem.

Having missed the in-person event in 2024 due to my relocation to London, I was excited to attend FOSDEM 2025 in person and reconnect with the vibrant open-source community. This year, I boarded the Eurostar from London to Brussels, eager to engage with fellow contributors, maintainers, and developers.

Beyond the Great (Fire)Wall: A Journey Through Forbidden Landscapes and Cultural Wonders

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:19:02 +0200

For years, I collaborated with Red Hat colleagues remotely, forging connections and driving projects forward from opposite ends of the globe. But it wasn’t until my trip to China that I finally had the opportunity to meet them in person, to put faces to names and share experiences beyond the confines of virtual communication.

I could meet with my first manager, the teammate just promoted from the intern position after months of work together, some of the historical leads and managers of the Openshift QE group. The experience of meeting and discussing of work with them and especially having beers, dinners, Kao Rou in particular, has been one of the most grateful times of working in my current team. It also is the beauty of such an international way we have of organizing our teams: it is technical need as anytime there is at least one person awake and working in the team, but it also is a way to share and enrich our culture and knowledge by exchanging experiences and traditions from our countries.

Hello World

Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:19:02 +0200

Yet another (Web1.0+) blog. Why should someone make a blog in 2022, after the social networks era reached (and is likely going to lose) its steady state? After participating in KubeCon22 in Valencia, Spain, I thought of implementing it. It’s been my first experience as a Red Hatter to get in touch with hatters in person. I just joined Red Hat for one year, remotely, from a small town in southern Italy, in the time of COVID-19. Since then, I have known many fantastic people remotely and for reasons related to my work: contributing to the enablement of OpenShift deployments on ARM64 servers. We are good at building teams and relationships remotely. However, you don’t share coffee, a beer, or a dinner with a colleague if you work in a remote setting like ours and in a team displaced around different timezones of the Earth. Not sharing a coffee also means that you only have a little chance to get in discussions beyond the work, even related to it but more to disguise and enjoy the possibility of knowing more through relaxed knowledge sharing.