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Container Image Excellence With Spegel 06/18/2025

Container Image Excellence With Spegel In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Philip Laine, creator and core maintainer of Spegal. Spegel is for you if you are looking to do any of the following. Locally cache images from external registries with no explicit configuration. Avoid cluster failure during external registry downtime. Improve image pull speed and pod startup time by pulling images from the local cache first. Avoid rate-limiting when pulling images from external registries (e.g. Docker Hub). Decrease egressing traffic outside of the clusters network. Increase image pull efficiency in edge node deployments. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/36698250

Securing Kuberentes, Cyber Security, and Contributing To Open-Source 06/04/2025

Securing Kuberentes, Cyber Security, and Contributing To Open-Source In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Matthias from ARMO to talk about all things security (compliance, container security, AppSec, etc.), contributing to open-source, and career progressions across the software and cybersecurity journey. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/36698070

Policy-As-Code For Every Cloud Environment 05/22/2025

Policy-As-Code For Every Cloud Environment In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Cortney Nickerson who leads Community at Kyverno, a Policy-as-Code tool for Kuberernetes and cloud-based environments. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/36299020

CNCF Green Reviews Subproject Highlight 05/08/2025

CNCF Green Reviews Subproject Highlight In this episode of Platform and Cloud Cafe', Kristina and Michael are joined by Antonio Di Turi, Sustainability Lead for the Sunstainability CNCF Working Group to talk about the WG, it's initiaivites, and how you can get involved. Join the Sustainability Slack channel! Check out the Sustainability WG tooling. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/36299005

The Many Methods Of Deploying Apps In Cloud 04/17/2025

The Many Methods Of Deploying Apps In Cloud In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael break down the five key methods for deploying workloads in Microsoft Azure based on company/team needs, workload size, and scalability. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/35809105

Learning In The Age Of AI And Cloud 04/03/2025

Learning In The Age Of AI And Cloud In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael sit down with Ned Bellavance to talk about how AI will change the trajectory of many individuals careers along with the right mindset everyone should adopt to further their careers. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/35809090

The Rise of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) 03/20/2025

The Rise of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael chat about the past, present, and future of IDPs. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/35422330

App Modernization With Wasm 03/06/2025

App Modernization With Wasm In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe', Kristina and Michael break down the importance of WASM and it's future. https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/introduction.html /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/35421690

Implementing Policies The Right Way With Netfetch 02/19/2025

Implementing Policies The Right Way With Netfetch In this episode, Michael and Kristina are joined by Daniel Dagfinrud to chat about his open-source project, Netfetch, which is a project that can truly change the way engineers see Kubernetes security. Here's the project repo! https://github.com/deggja/netfetch/tree/main /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/34895485

How To Become A Microsoft MVP 02/05/2025

How To Become A Microsoft MVP In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Richard Hooper (pixel_robots) to discuss what it takes to become a Microsoft MVP. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/34895425

The 4 C's Of Cloud Native Security 01/16/2025

The 4 C's Of Cloud Native Security In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe', Kristina and I chat about the 4 C's of Cloud Native which is Code, Containers, Clusters, and Cloud. We dive into each piece with real-world examples and explain how you can implement each within your environments. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/34553445

Where Kubernetes And Cloud Native Sits 01/01/2025

Where Kubernetes And Cloud Native Sits In this episode of Platform & Cloud Cafe', Kristina and Michael break down the overall landscape of Kubernetes, where it fits into today's world, the overall abstractions, and how LLMs and training Models could change things. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/34553335

Breaking Into Cybersecurity And Areas Of Focus 08/14/2024

Breaking Into Cybersecurity And Areas Of Focus In this episode of the Engineering Revised Podcast, Kristina and Michael: Talk about various roles in security (Red, Purple Blue Teams, etc.). What you should learn to have a successful career in cyber security. How you can learn Pentesting/Red Team skills. and A LOT more /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/32573572

Interview Tips And Tricks In 2024 07/24/2024

Interview Tips And Tricks In 2024 In this episode of the Engineering Revised podcast, Kristina and Michael talk about exactly what you need to land a job in 2024. If you're having issues finding a job or getting through the recent tech layoffs, this episode is for you. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/32065117

IaC vs Pulumi vs ConfigMgmt 07/10/2024

IaC vs Pulumi vs ConfigMgmt In this episode of the Engineering Revised podcast, Kristina and Michael break down the key differences between building infrastructure and services with general IaC vs using a general-purpose programming language. They also talk a bit about ConfigMgmt vs IaC. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/32064992

Managed Kubernetes Services vs On-Prem 06/26/2024

Managed Kubernetes Services vs On-Prem In episode 3 of the Engineering Revised podcast, Kristina and Michael dive into the key differences between managed Kubernetes vs on-prem. We also chat about Serverless Kubernetes and hybrid. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/31650842

The Future Of Open Source And How Vendors Can Market To Engineers 06/12/2024

The Future Of Open Source And How Vendors Can Market To Engineers In this episode, Kristina and Michael dive into a ton of different discussions around open-source, how open-source will survive, the hurdles, and how products that are both paid and open-source can "get their message" across to engineers. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/31578582

Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Repatriation (Is It Real?) 05/29/2024

Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Repatriation (Is It Real?) In episode 2 of the Engineering Revised podcast, Kristina and Michael dive into the idea of moving workloads on-prem (or back on-prem), cloud workloads, and hybrid workloads. Utlimately, we wanted to figure out which option is best for the majority of organizations. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/31479237

Can You Succeed In Today's Engineering World? 05/15/2024

Can You Succeed In Today's Engineering World? In this episode of Engineering Revised, Kristina and Michael kick off the podcast talking about what we do, what this podcast will be about, and how engineers can succeed in today's world with not only a shift of mindset, but what focus points they need in terms of what's in demand. /episode/index/show/9d0fb56f-9812-45a4-89f9-50308ea18f3d/id/31304402

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