Why you should become a Kubestronaut If you work in DevOps, Cloud-Native, or Platform Engineering, you already know that Kubernetes is the undisputed boss level of modern infrastructure. But mastering it—and proving that mastery to employers—is no small feat. ...
I recently wrapped up an engagement with a customer where we partnered with their engineering team to refactor a critical piece of their stack: a complex media processing pipeline. For the purpose of confidentiality, I will not disclose the customer’s name or the specific details of the project. I will refer to the customer as “the customer” and the project as “the project”. The point of this post is to share my experience and the lessons learned from using Agentic AI for a large scale refactoring project. ...
It’s that time of year again. 2025 was a crazy, busy year with a lot of travel, work, and running. Now that I have been running seriously for almost three years, I think it’s time to share my journey and experiences. And just for fun, I will throw in some hiking adventures I did this year. ...
This tutorial demonstrates how to deploy the Llama-3.1–8B-Instruct model on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using vLLM and integrating an ADK agent to interact with the model, supporting both basic chat completions and tool usage. The setup leverages a GKE Autopilot cluster with GPU-enabled nodes to handle the computational requirements. ...