The Luca Berton Blog
1621+ expert articles on AI, Kubernetes, Ansible, Platform Engineering, and cloud infrastructure — practical, hands-on guides and industry insights from Luca Berton, AI & Cloud Advisor. Explore tutorials, deep dives, and the latest from every topic.
A Year of Badges: My Superpower Is Staying Current
A year of conference badges from Cloud_Native Rejekts to KubeCon, AWS Summit and TNW — and why staying current with cloud-native and AI trends is my real edge.
PostgreSQL Is More Than Relational: ldap-pg
PostgreSQL is more than a relational database. The ldap-pg project runs an LDAP directory on a PostgreSQL backend using JSONB and JSONPATH — here is how.
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Ballard's Test, and Why Today's AI Still Fails It
Ballard's Test: reason without language proves understanding. AlphaGeometry and Coconut rediscover a 144-year-old Smithsonian idea — LLMs aren't reason engines.
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Kubernetes 1.37: What Platform Engineers Should Know
Kubernetes 1.37 (Garhwal) brings 67 enhancements — metrics API goes stable, HPA scales to zero, gang scheduling hits beta, and DRA matures.
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Open-Source Voice AI You Can Run on a Laptop
A roundup of open-source speech-to-text, diarization, and text-to-speech engines you can run locally, plus S1-mini for on-device transcript cleanup.
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Weft + Tangle: Build AI Orchestrations, Not Agents
Weft is an open-source language for AI orchestration; Tangle is the AI that writes it. Structured graphs you can read, audit, and run at native speed.
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AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe lands September 17-18, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. As a media partner I'm sharing a 25% discount code for the agentic AI + MCP conference.
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Securing Octane with OpenSCAP
Use OpenSCAP to assess the RHEL base OS behind OpenText Software Delivery Management (ALM Octane) before you harden it — scan first, remediate later.
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AI Watermark Removal: A Practical Guide
AI tools embed invisible watermarks and C2PA metadata. Detect and remove them from text, images, and docs with the open-source watermarks-remover toolkit.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: The Curious Case of the Missing Memory
Notes from Mohammed Nafees's Go Amsterdam talk on finding missing memory with pprof, RSS, garbage collection, retention, and off-heap allocations.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
Notes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam at JetBrains: Event Recap
A recap of the Go Amsterdam meetup at JetBrains, with talks on the select statement, memory debugging, and staying passionate in tech during the AI age.
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Go Meetup Amsterdam: A Deep Dive into the select Statement
Notes from Jesús Espino's Go Amsterdam talk on the select statement, channel multiplexing, timer pitfalls, cancellation, and preventing goroutine leaks.
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The Go Programming Language: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to why Go excels in backend and cloud infrastructure, covering goroutines, channels, its toolchain, and the best ways to learn it.
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The Protégé Effect: How Teaching Improves Learning
You learn more deeply when you teach. The Protégé Effect, backed by the 2009 Teachable Agents study, shows explaining to others beats re-reading. Here is how.
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Fix Kubernetes CNI VXLAN Drops on NSX Segments
Cross-node pod traffic over your CNI VXLAN overlay is silently dropped on NSX segments. The fix lives in the MAC Discovery profile: enable MAC Address Change.
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IaC Is Not a Data Recovery Plan
October 7, Eon Cloud Cuts Live: Luca Berton and Ohad Maislish work real automation-damage incidents and build the recovery runbook Terraform and Ansible can't.
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OpenBao on RISC-V: Secrets Management on Open Hardware
At Open Source Summit Europe, OpenBao ran natively on a RISC-V machine — secrets management on open hardware, from the silicon up to the app layer.
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Post KubeCon Japan 2026: Reflections on AI, Cloud Native, and the Developer Journey
Straight from KubeCon Japan 2026: the shift from CPUs to GPUs, exploding AI models, and the new accelerator landscape — what it means for developers.
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AgentCon Preday: Securing Agentic AI in Production
AgentCon Preday Amsterdam (Sept 16, 2026): a look at securing agentic AI in production — supply-chain risk, AI code review, and cloud-native scale.
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Claude Code Remote Control: Enable & Fix Policy Error
Stuck on 'remote control is disabled by your organization policy' in Claude Code? How an admin enables Remote Control and lifts the MDM block.
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My August 2026: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit & More
August 2026 roundup: KubeCon Japan, Red Hat Summit, Hiroshima, Amsterdam meetups, and the AI platform trends I'm watching.
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EDGECASE 2026: Gotta Catch 'Em All
EDGECASE 2026 returns September 24 in Hilversum — the Netherlands' biggest Kubernetes event, 400+ cloud native engineers, hosted by Bart Farrell.
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BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QA
Luca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
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