Learn from production

• Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second

  Conor Gallagher

  This case study shows how Zalando moved over one million requests per second to in-process load balancing, kept caches warm during scaling, and saved more than $1,000 a day.

• We Scaled an Insurance Batch Job 4000x — Here’s Every Bottleneck We Hit

  Anandasishmishra

  This case study shows how an insurance platform scaled from 50 to 200,000 insured objects per policy with parallel batch processing, dynamic workers, Kubernetes autoscaling, database scaling, and caching.

• Managing Hundreds of Kubernetes Overlays at Scale with Kustomize

  Devison Allushi

  This case study shows how a retail platform manages hundreds of Kustomize overlays with separate branch and kiosk settings, storage choices, and GitOps updates.

• How I Saved Azure Compute Costs by Automatically Shutting Down Our Dev Kubernetes Cluster Every Night

  Tobi Oderinde

  This case study shows how to shut down 75 AKS services overnight by pausing KEDA, scaling deployments to zero with Helm CronJobs, and letting Argo CD keep everything in sync.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • DevOps Engineer with 42dot

   • Salary: $145K to $240K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Sunnyvale, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Helm, Go, Python, CDK, Cloudformation, Pulumi, Terraform, Gitlab

2. • DevOps Engineer with RapidFort, Inc.

   • Salary: $125.82K to $308K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, Python, Terraform, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus

3. • DevOps Engineer with T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.

   • Salary: $54K to $4.13L a year

   • Location: based in the office in Pune, IN

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, C#, Typescript, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Grafana, Prometheus, Grafana Tempo

4. • DevSecOps Engineer with Coupang

   • Salary: $136.8K to $365.64K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Seoul, KR

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Python, Shell

5. • DevSecOps Engineer with Higgsfield

   • Salary: $70.74K to $440K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in San Francisco, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Go, Python

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Building a Production-Grade Apache Spark Platform on Kubernetes

  Alireza Khorami

  This tutorial shows how to run a multi-tenant Spark platform on Kubernetes with Spark Operator, Volcano, Helm, Airflow, shared images, workload limits, and monitoring.

• Building a Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Homelab with K3s

  Chris Allmark

  This tutorial teaches how to build a Raspberry Pi K3s homelab by preparing nodes, enabling cgroups, configuring networking, joining agents, and deploying a Skaffold demo app.

• Service Discovery and Service Mesh in .NET

  Arash Zand

  This tutorial shows you how to implement service discovery in .NET with Kubernetes DNS, Microsoft.Extensions.ServiceDiscovery, Consul, and Dapr while ordering resilience handlers correctly.

• Enforcing Zero-Trust Egress in Kubernetes with NetworkPolicies

  JorelFuji

  This tutorial shows how to lock down outbound traffic with plain NetworkPolicy objects: deny all egress by default, restore DNS, then allow only what each workload needs.

More tutorials →

Call for Papers closing soon

1. 8

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   Build It Summit

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 October 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Paris, FR

   • In-person conference organized by Build It Summit.

   • The conference starts on the 1 December 2026.

   • Apply here

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   Devopsdays Los Angeles

   The Call For Paper is open until 1 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

   • In-person conference organized by DevopsDays.

   • The conference starts on the 2 April 2027.

   • Apply here

3. 9

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   AI Conf Asia

   The Call For Paper is open until 1 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Kathmandu, NP

   • In-person conference organized by wwktm.

   • The conference starts on the 8 January 2027.

   • Apply here

4. 13

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   Open Source Conference Kolkata

   The Call For Paper is open until 5 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Kolkata, IN

   • In-person conference organized by Open Source Con India.

   • The conference starts on the 5 December 2026.

   • Apply here

5. 31

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   Big Data Europe

   The Call For Paper is open until 23 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Vilnius, LT

   • In-person conference organized by DATA MINER.

   • The conference starts on the 27 November 2026.

   • Apply here

6. 39

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   ContainerDays & AI Context London 2027

   The Call For Paper is open until 1 December 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: London, GB

   • In-person conference organized by Dockland Media Group.

   • The conference starts on the 11 February 2027.

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   APE 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 12 December 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Apenheul, NL

   • In-person conference organized by Stichting Meetups.

   • The conference starts on the 11 December 2026.

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More articles

• How I Built a Production-Grade Object Detection System That Scales Itself

  Rushyanth Nerellakunta

  This article walks through a real-time object detection pipeline where Kafka absorbs bursty camera traffic, YOLOv8 workers autoscale on Kubernetes, and MLflow tracks every model version.

• Secrets and Tokens Are Not Configuration. They Are a System

  Kate Tsaplina

  This article explains why secrets and tokens form the access system of a platform rather than plain config, and how static secrets and short-lived tokens together decide who can reach what.

• FireFlow: HTB Machine Writeup

  4mN3s14 | Blog

  This is a Hack The Box machine write-up that chains a LangFlow RCE and a forged JWT into a full Kubernetes cluster escape, step by step.

• CVE-2025-69902: OS Command Injection in kubectl-mcp-tool

  Hayeon

  This write-up details CVE-2025-69902, a command-injection flaw in a kubectl MCP server that runs user input through a shell, letting an attacker execute arbitrary commands on the host.

Even more articles →