Alastair Cooke’s KubeCon 2025 takeaways highlight a shift from simply building Kubernetes to efficiently operating it at enterprise scale, with FinOps and cost optimization moving to the forefront through smarter autoscaling, tooling, and hybrid infrastructure reuse. AI’s role has become more gro...

Tech Field Day is back at KubeCon North America 2025, broadcasting live from Atlanta, November 10–13! You can tune in to all the action live on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page or on Techstrong TV. We're excited to see innovative companies and explore the latest in Kubernetes, cloud-native infras...

In a world of well-managed Kubernetes, we hoped that infrastructure finally wouldn’t matter. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features John Willis and Guy Currier wishing that infrastructure didn’t matter, with Alastair Cooke. Every new infrastructure revolution claims to make infrastru...

This session will highlight the robust capabilities of VKS for platform engineers, focusing on deep technical insights and real-world value. Discover how VKS offers a fully conformant Kubernetes runtime, simplified lifecycle management with 2-click cluster deployment, and built-in guardrails to e...

This session showcases vSphere Kubernetes Service’s compatibility with existing setups, its Kubernetes-first API, and a rich ecosystem of Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) services, such as ArgoCD. See a comprehensive, automated workflow in action, from provisioning a new VKS cluster with Terraform to deploy...

This session will emphasize the tangible benefits of running vSphere Kubernetes Service in a private cloud environment. We’ll reinforce how VKS simplifies operations within a private cloud context, highlighting minimal networking expertise required, self-service capabilities, and the powerful syn...

Sudeep Goswami, CEO of Traefik Labs, began the presentation by introducing Traefik Labs and outlining three main topics. The first was the concept of unified application intelligence. Second, the acceleration of AI in the enterprise. Finally, running applications anywhere, emphasizing freedom of ...

Application intelligence is about moving beyond traditional networking, which focuses on IP addresses and ports, to application networking, which is application-centric and user-focused. Instead of routing packets, application networking routes business based on identity and context, enabling the...

Sudeep Goswami from Traefik Labs presented at Tech Field Day at KubeCon North America 2025, focusing on accelerating AI in the enterprise using Traefik Labs' runtime gateway. Given the rapid proliferation of AI models, decoupling applications from specific models becomes crucial to avoid constant...

Sudeep Goswami highlights Traefik's ability to run in diverse environments, addressing the growing trend of multi-environment deployments. Traefik is not limited to Kubernetes, but can operate on Linux, within Docker containers, HashiCorp Nomad, and across any certified Kubernetes distribution. S...

Most SRE teams were designed to ensure uptime, not to evolve products. They monitor systems but often lack the context to influence architecture or design. This segment examines why proximity — being part of the product team — is what transforms reliability into progress. When engineers operate a...

A Cloud Scou is a forward-deployed engineer who joins the product team to co-own reliability, scalability, and evolution. Drawing from the Forward-Deployed Engineer for SR and AI-Managed DevCrew models, Scouts act as both architectural advisors and implementers — blending human judgment with AI-d...

This segment grounds the idea in practice. We’ll examine how embedded engineers have helped product teams go beyond reactive fixes — from automating post-mortems to co-designing self-healing infrastructure and predictive testing frameworks. The focus is on what changes when teams own reliability ...