Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, Itiel sits down with the internet's favorite cloud contrarian, Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group. Corey shares his unconventional career path as a "cautionary tale," explaining why his knack for fixing horrifying AWS bills makes him a terrible employee, and why he absolutely refuses to touch Kubernetes in production.

Dan breaks down the fundamental similarities and stark differences between application development and platform engineering. He shares the unexpected hurdles he faced during his transition, from complex networking and CoreDNS latency to the harsh realities exposed by chaos testing in cloud environments.

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, we are joined by infrastructure and FinOps expert Josh Schlanger. Drawing on over 15 years of experience across Martech, e-commerce, and health tech, Josh shares why solving core business problems should always take priority over chasing new, "shiny object" technologies.

Most enterprise SaaS products, like Komodor’s Autonomous AI SRE Platform, require installing a remote agent on the customer’s infrastructure, which varies significantly from one organization to another, in terms of architecture, configurations, permissions, processes, and more. This “unmanaged” model creates major blind spots, making daily operations, observability, debugging, and incident response challenging. When failures occur, limited visibility and bespoke systems make root-cause analysis slow, incomplete, or impossible.

They share their professional origins, highlighting how Kubernetes transitioned from a complex tool for experts to a foundational technology for global enterprises.. Part of the conversation focuses on the history of Helm, explaining its growth from a simple hackathon project into a standard package manager. Another part takes on the future of distributed computing, specifically how Akamai is integrating infrastructure as a service to support modern workloads.

In this episode, Itiel joins forces with Shemer, Director of Platform Solutions at the gaming giant Playtika, and Scott Rosenberg, Lead Architect at TeraSky, to discuss the realities of platform engineering at a massive scale. The trio dissects Playtika’s multi-year journey from a legacy, homegrown Kubespray infrastructure to a modern, holistic platform built on Spectro Cloud, all while running strictly on-premise to support 25+ games and high-volume traffic.

From the early days of "neural nets" and WebSphere to the modern complexities of Kubernetes, Hayato Shimizu has seen the evolution of infrastructure firsthand. In this episode of Kubernetes for Humans, the co-founder of Digitalis joins the show to discuss the harsh realities of enterprise platform engineering and his personal journey from corporate employee to consultancy owner.

Watch as Itiel Shwartz, Komodor CTO and Co-Founder as he shares hard-won lessons from developing an AI agent that processes millions of K8s events daily to deliver autonomous troubleshooting that reached 95%+ accuracy in benchmarking. This webinar covers: Building production ready systems that maintain reliability when 90% of your data is noise. How Komodor developed an AI SRE agent that processes millions of K8s events daily to deliver autonomous troubleshooting that reached 95%+ accuracy in benchmarking.

Join Hasith Kalpage, Director of Platform Engineering , and Arthur Drozdov, Agentic AI Engineer, as they share how Cisco is using Komodor’s Klaudia Agentic AI to evolve its platform strategy, to unlock smoother developer experience, slash MTTR, and reduce bottlenecks across the enterprise. – Including a live demo of the CAIPE platform!