Learn from production

• How We Moved a 2M RPM WebSocket Service to EKS and Fixed a Critical Bottleneck

  Freshworks Engineering

  This case study shows how the Freshworks engineering team moved a WebSocket service handling more than two million requests per minute to EKS, uncovering a load-balancing bottleneck and fixing it with ALB cookie-based stickiness.

• How Freshworks Engineered a Mission-Critical Self-Hosted Redis Cluster Infrastructure

  Freshworks Engineering

  This article explains how Freshworks built their own production-grade, high-performance Redis cluster on Kubernetes + Envoy, handling over 2.5 million IOPS and 1.5 TB data with 99.99% uptime.

• Building Production-Ready Multi-Agent Systems on Kubernetes: Real Lessons from Deploying 11 Specialized AI Agents

  Sergio Romero

  This case study shows how a small team deployed eleven specialized AI agents as Kubernetes custom resources for tasks like network, observability, deployment orchestration and more.

• Bifrost’s journey from Nginx to Envoy gateway for intelligent rate limiting

  Vialli Kavoo

  This case study explains how a team switched from Nginx to Envoy Gateway to build smarter and fairer rate-limiting based on user identity instead of IP addresses.

More case studies →

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   • Salary: $130K to $270K a year

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   • Salary: $205.9K to $231K a year

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   • Salary: $80K to $110K a year

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Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Deploying an OpenTelemetry-Native LGTM Stack on Kubernetes

  Zakaria EL BAZI 🇲🇦

  This tutorial teaches how to deploy a complete LGTM observability stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes for unified metrics, logs, and traces.

• Setting Up Distributed Tracing with Tempo on AKS: Azure Blob Storage Backend and Private Link Connectivity

  Pixel Robots.

  This tutorial teaches how to set up distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo on AKS using Azure Blob Storage and Private Link for secure, cost-effective observability with workload identity and automated Private Link Service provisioning.

• Transforming Kubernetes Secret Management Best Practices

  Nitin Yadav

  This tutorial teaches how to securely manage and dynamically update Kubernetes secrets using AWS Secrets Manager, External-Secrets Operator, and Config-Reloader.

• Reducing Feature Environment Costs with KEDA and Prometheus in Kubernetes

  Pierre RAFFA

  This tutorial teaches how to reduce feature environment costs using KEDA with Prometheus metrics to scale deployments to zero during inactivity and scale up based on custom application metrics.

More tutorials →

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   The Call For Paper is open until 31 January 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

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   • In-person conference organized by CloserStill.

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More articles

• Kubernetes Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Cluster

  Dmitry Protsenko

  This article outlines 12 best practices for hardening a Kubernetes cluster, focusing on non-root containers, avoiding hostPath volumes, and configuring Security Contexts properly.

• Scaling Dagster on Kubernetes: Best Practices for 50+ Code Locations

  Maciej Lopalewski

  This article discusses scaling Dagster to 50+ code locations on Kubernetes and covers architectural considerations for resource isolation, deployment strategies, and managing large-scale data pipeline orchestration.

• An introduction to Envoy AI Gateway

  Re Alvarez Parmar

  This article introduces Envoy AI Gateway, explaining how it manages and routes LLM API traffic with:

  • rate limiting,
  • authentication,
  • and load balancing for AI workloads.
• Beyond the Surface – Exploring attacker persistence strategies in Kubernetes

  raesene

  This article walks through how an attacker might gain and maintain access in a Kubernetes cluster, showing techniques like node shell access, hidden namespaces and CSR abuse.

Even more articles →