The Luca Berton Blog
1536+ 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.
macOS ENFILE Error: Too Many Open Files — Fix Guide
Fix the macOS ENFILE file table overflow error when builds fail. Diagnose kern.maxfiles exhaustion with sysctl and lsof, and find the leaking process.
AI Agents in Healthcare: A Floor Chat at RoachFest London
A spontaneous RoachFest London 2026 conversation on where AI agents could take healthcare: pattern recognition, microbots, and cancer detection.
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Managing AI Agents at Platform Scale: Cloudsmith's Take
Nigel Douglas of Cloudsmith on why LLMs running on individual workstations are shadow infrastructure platform teams need to own, not ignore.
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Inside Cockroach Labs' AI Playbook: The Database Reckoning
From Cockroach Labs' own floor at RoachFest London 2026: 1,000 AI-built internal apps, an AI support engine, and why agents have no natural ceiling.
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Will AI Make Us the Humans From WALL-E?
A candid RoachFest London 2026 floor conversation on automation creep, agent autonomy, and Cockroach Labs' Felipe on the honest fear behind the hype.
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Form3: How a Payments Platform Survives Cloud Outages
Kevin Holditch of Form3 on why regulators forced a V1 to V2 rebuild across three clouds, and how CockroachDB keeps quorum writes safe across all of them.
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Securing Agentic AI Traffic: Gravitee at PlatformCon 2026
Gravitee evolved its API and event-stream management platform into a full agent management layer covering MCP, LLM, and agent-to-agent traffic.
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Human in the Loop: AI and Database Migrations
A RoachFest London 2026 floor chat on why AI-assisted database migrations still need a human to decide the ambiguous schema calls.
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Isovalent (Now Part of Cisco) on Simplifying Kubernetes Networking
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, showed EVPN at PlatformCon London 2026 — consistent policy and connectivity from Kubernetes clusters through to the data center.
2 min readKief Morris on AI Agents and Being 'Human on the Loop'
Kief Morris of Thoughtworks on what engineering identity means when agents write the software: build the system that builds the software, not just the software.
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Kyverno Graduates CNCF, and Nirmata Adds AI Governance
Kyverno reached CNCF graduation. Nirmata's CEO on layering AI agents over the policy engine for compliance automation, plus a new LLM governance layer.
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OpenBao Founder on Secrets Management for AI Agents
OpenBao founder Alex Scheel on why short-lived, fine-grained tokens matter more than ever once AI agents start holding credentials.
2 min readYour IDP Is the Foundation for Agentic AI
A PlatformCon London 2026 session mapped how internal developer platforms evolve for the agentic era: agent paths, a governance plane, and agentic PR review.
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Let's Touch BASE: Getting Your Taxes Right as a Small Business
Recap of BASE Amsterdam's tax workshop for small business owners: VAT as a flow not a cost, common compliance mistakes, and a fireside chat on co-creation.
4 min readRoachFest London 2026: Distributed SQL Meets AI Resilience
Recap of RoachFest London 2026: CockroachDB's vision for AI agents, Form3's multi-cloud payments architecture, and Primer's zero-downtime migration.
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Tech Makers Monthly Tech Drinks + Pitching: Amsterdam Recap
Recap of Tech Makers' Monthly Tech Drinks + Pitching night in Amsterdam: startup pitches on AI visibility, a pre-seed raise, and founder stories.
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PlatformCon London 2026: The AI Era Runs on Platforms
Recap of PlatformCon Live Day London 2026: why AI raises the bar for platform engineering, from agentic coding harnesses to agentic observability and DevEx.
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AI Governance in Practice: Findings Remediation and Agent Identity
What separates companies that manage AI risk well from those that just publish a policy PDF: fast findings remediation and real agent identity controls.
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Dell PowerEdge P2PBridge.SL.x: Diagnosing PCIe Enumeration Hangs
A host hanging at P2PBridge.SL.x during POST usually means a PCIe enumeration or link-training failure, not a fault in the bridge itself.
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What Delivering Enterprise Copilot Assessments Actually Looks Like
Behind the scenes of enterprise Copilot rollouts: scoping events, mock sessions, and the delivery cadence that decides if a program is seen as working.
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Wiz Club Amsterdam 2026: Machine-Speed Cloud and AI Security
Recap of Wiz Club Amsterdam: machine-speed cloud defense, AI threats, and lessons from security leaders at Booking, Mews, Nebius, and Philips.
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Platform Engineering Amsterdam: This is FIN(e)TECH Meetup Recap
Recap of the 10th Platform Engineering Amsterdam meetup: Kubernetes security at ING, dark matter supply-chain vulnerabilities, and secure platforms for AI.
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EU-Nough Tech Rules? The Realities of Scaling in Europe — Amsterdam 2026
52% of EU founders avoided another EU market over compliance. Notes from DutchBasecamp's EU-Nough Tech Rules event in Amsterdam, June 30, 2026.
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Claude API Pricing 2026: Fable, Opus, Sonnet 5, and Haiku Compared
Claude API pricing for Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5. Sonnet 5 intro pricing $2/MTok through August 2026, with prompt caching and batch tips.
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