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Christian Gafner, Adfinis: Digital Sovereignty Meets OpenBao's Open Governance
Christian Gafner on digital sovereignty, OpenBao's TSC governance, and why Adfinis backs open source secrets management with a 24/7 enterprise SLA.
5 min read database
Surviving a Real GCP Outage: A Multi-Cloud CockroachDB Story from RoachFest London 2026
A RoachFest London account of a real GCP outage with zero platform impact thanks to a multi-cloud CockroachDB architecture.
5 min read Platform Engineering
Hyve Managed Hosting: Sovereign Cloud and VMware-to-OpenShift Migration
Jack Ridgway of Hyve Managed Hosting on European sovereign cloud demand, VMware-to-OpenShift migration, and building agentic AI into managed hosting platforms.
4 min read AI
NASA's Josiah Johnson on the Data Behind Artemis 2
NASA Marshall's Josiah Johnson on the 907 virtual workloads and 340,000 parameters that will help engineers make real-time calls during Artemis 2.
5 min read database
When Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets Aren't Enough for Multi-Cloud CockroachDB
Why cluster-scoped Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets can silently break quorum for multi-cloud CockroachDB, and how a custom cross-cluster PDB fixes it.
6 min read AI
Pete Cheslock: From RAG to Roll-Your-Own Models in One Year
Pete Cheslock on the one-year enterprise AI leap from RAG pilots to self-hosted inference and model training on vLLM and llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026.
4 min read AI
llm-d Maintainer Sally O'Malley on Enterprise AI Inference
llm-d maintainer Sally O'Malley on vendor-neutral, Kubernetes-native distributed inference and what enterprise AI adoption looks like from inside the project.
4 min read Open Source
Shuchi Sharma on Open Source AI's World of Infinite Possibilities
Shuchi Sharma on leading Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office, operationalizing open source AI at enterprise scale, and a new foundation in the works.
4 min read database
Spencer Kimball: From 'We're Not Google' to CockroachDB's Agentic Future
Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB's agentic future, the old 'we're not Google' objection, and distributed SQL as a mainstream need.
5 min read database
Major Tim Peake at RoachFest London: What Space Missions Teach Engineers
Major Tim Peake's RoachFest London keynote on launch day nerves, spacewalk training, psychological safety, and a decision framework for incident response.
6 min read database
Vik Bhatti (Primer): Move Before You Hit the Write Ceiling
Vik Bhatti of Primer on zero-downtime CockroachDB migration, rejecting self-managed sharding, and a post-cutover write bug.
6 min read AI
Zernio vs Publer vs Postiz: Social Media Management
Zernio, Publer, and Postiz compared for social media scheduling, APIs, AI automation, self-hosting, collaboration, and pricing in 2026.
10 min read AIAI Is Making the Biggest Platforms Even Bigger
The Top 100 platform companies were valued at $22.7T in 2024. AI is reinforcing the biggest platform ecosystems, not spreading power evenly.
6 min read Open SourceKubeCon Japan 2025 Shows Japan's Cloud Native Moment
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 sold out in Tokyo. The bigger story is Japan's rising cloud native maturity, end-user adoption, and AI demand.
6 min read Platform Engineering
Nordic APIs Summit 2026 in Stockholm
Nordic APIs Summit 2026 returns to Stockholm on October 12-14 to explore secure, intelligent, and connected API platform development.
3 min read AI
Embodied AI Infrastructure for the Physical World
Embodied AI moves artificial intelligence from screens into machines. Here is the infrastructure, data and safety stack required to make it work.
7 min read AI
Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents?
AI agents will not browse websites like humans. Here is how to prepare your website, database and infrastructure for autonomous traffic.
5 min read DevOps
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.
4 min read database
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.
5 min read database
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.
2 min read Platform Engineering
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.
2 min read database
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.
8 min read database
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.
2 min read Platform Engineering
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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