Welcome to the first edition of my weekly newsletter. This week was all about KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam — and what a week it was.
🎤 The Big Conversations
Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF
The cloud native ecosystem is shifting from internet-scale distributed systems to agentic AI infrastructure. With 13,500 attendees, KubeCon EU 2026 was the largest ever — and AI was the dominant topic. 👉 Read the full conversation
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation
2026 could be the year generative AI meaningfully reshapes how software gets built. Jim’s key insight: AI will make open source more critical, not less — transparency and shared standards matter more as software creation becomes automated. 👉 Read the full conversation
🏢 Booth Conversations That Stood Out
Cielara AI — Max Murshed showed me their “world model” approach to AI code review. When AI writes code faster than humans can review it, you need context-aware reviewers that understand your architecture and even read your Jira tickets. 👉 Read more
echo.ai — Gabriela K. Wolin and team are on a mission to make your job boring. They recreate common container images secure-by-design, then handle all patching for you. Smaller attack surface, zero CVE maintenance burden. 👉 Read more
Stack8s — Valeria explained their unified control plane across 15+ cloud providers. Their philosophy: “We don’t have an infrastructure.” Imperial College London and Cambridge University are already customers. 👉 Read more
Dynatrace — Andi Grabner on why AI observability and right-sizing are the next frontier. AI is becoming the number one Kubernetes workload, and most teams are massively over-provisioning. 👉 Read more
ZenML / Kitaru — Safoine Khabich is channeling five years of ML pipeline experience into Kitaru, a framework for durable AI agents with human-in-the-loop workflows. 👉 Read more
Rootly — JJ Tang is building AI SRE agents that go on-call so you do not have to. Incident management is getting its AI moment. 👉 Read more
OpenObserve — Rethinking observability for the cloud native era with an open-source, cost-effective approach. 👉 Read more
👥 People I Reconnected With
- Paulo Menon — former colleague, now deep in generative AI on Kubernetes. Recommended the O’Reilly book “Generative AI on Kubernetes.” Read more
- Clemens Scholz — using Obsidian + Markdown + Claude as his AI second brain for daily development. Read more
- Albert from DUO — great after-hours chat at A’DAM Tower about NetBird and WireGuard-based networking. Read more
- Nate Waddington (CNCF) + the Dutch Kubernetes Podcast team — community connections that make KubeCon special. Read more
🏅 Personal Milestone
Earned my 4th KubeCon Speaker Badge from The Linux Foundation — joining Europe 2022, China 2021, and India 2024. My talk on Multi-Tenant GPUs on Bare Metal drew a packed room. 👉 See the credential | Download slides (PDF)
📚 Deep Dives Published This Week
AI and Developer Tools
- Claude Code: Complete Guide to Hooks, MCP, and SDK — everything about the AI coding assistant
- Agent Client Protocol (ACP): The LSP Moment for AI Coding Agents — the new open standard
NVIDIA Inference Stack
- NVIDIA Dynamo: The Triton Successor
- NIM Support Matrix | Model Profiles | Multi-Node on K8s
- Run:ai + Dynamo Gang Scheduling | Topology-Aware GPU Placement
Enterprise Infrastructure
- Kubernetes Security Hardening Checklist
- Multi-Cluster Management
- GitOps Maturity Model
- Enterprise AI Governance
- Enterprise LLM Deployment Patterns
Side Events
- Advancing Platform Engineering Meetup
- Building Autonomous Systems with LangChain, SurrealDB, and Qodo
- OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam
- Content Creators Coffee
💡 My Top Takeaway
The shift from “Kubernetes for web scale” to “Kubernetes for AI scale” is real and accelerating. Every booth, every hallway conversation, every keynote pointed the same direction: AI inference is becoming the primary Kubernetes workload. The companies and engineers who figure out GPU multi-tenancy, model serving economics, and AI observability now will define the next decade of infrastructure.
📬 Stay Connected
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- KubeCon 2026 landing page — slides, talk details, and booking
See you next week.
— Luca
