Learn from production

• We Cut Our Kubernetes Pods by 60% and Doubled Traffic Capacity

  Farid Guluzade

  This case study shows how reducing JVM MaxRAMPercentage, cutting the Hikari connection pool from 50 to 20, and implementing aggressive HPA scale-up (0s stabilization, 4 pods/min) doubled traffic capacity while cutting baseline pods from 26 to 10.

• From Chaos to 99.9% Uptime: Rebuilding a Kubernetes Platform for GPU Workloads

  Mateen Ali Anjum

  This case study describes rebuilding a fragile Kubernetes infrastructure into a production-grade platform for GPU-based ML workloads, improving deployment frequency from weekly to 10+ times daily.

• How We Cut Build Debugging Time by 75% with a DevEx AI Assistant

  Ron Matsliah

  This article describes how the team at Next Insurance built an AI-powered microservice that watches build failures via Jenkins, analyzes logs automatically and posts clear, helpful feedback to Slack.

• How We Turned a Forced OS Migration into a 30% Infrastructure Reduction

  Scout24

  This case study shows how Scout24 turned an Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life deadline into a 30% reduction in nodes across their EKS clusters by combining OS migration with Karpenter adoption.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • Data Engineer with Kasada

   • Salary: USD 0 to USD 412.61K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Sydney, AU

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Java, Python, Scala, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Pulumi

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   • Salary: $54K to $286K a year

   • Location: based in the office in San Francisco, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Python, Snowflake, Terraform, Datadog

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   • Location: remote from

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   • Salary: $49.5K to $539K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Docker, Shell, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Jenkins

5. • DevOps Engineer with HavocAI

   • Salary: $49.5K to $539K a year

   • Location: fully remote

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Go, Python, Terraform

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Building a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP

  Juan Carlos Gonzalez Cabrero

  This tutorial teaches how to build intelligent load balancing on GCP for Python microservices using Google Kubernetes Engine with Network Endpoint Groups, readiness probes, autoscaling, and observability to reduce failures.

• Learning Istio the Hard Way: A Real Service Mesh Lab with Canary, mTLS, and Tracing.

  Naman Raj

  This tutorial teaches how to build a production-like service mesh lab using Istio with a 3-tier application (Next.js, Go, Flask) on a local Kind cluster.

• Moving Logic Out of Pods: Extending the Argo Workflows Controller

  Anton Pechenin

  This tutorial shows you how to extend Argo Workflows using Executor Plugins by building HTTP servers that handle lightweight tasks in reusable agent pods instead of spinning up separate pods for each step.

• Mastering GKE Multi-Tenancy: The Power of Namespaces, RBAC, and Quotas

  Suraj Bhattarai

  This tutorial teaches how to implement multi-tenancy on Google Kubernetes Engine using namespaces for isolation, RBAC for access control, and resource quotas for capacity management.

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   Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day Europe

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   The Call For Paper is open until 26 March 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

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More articles

• Service Mesh Patterns: The Invisible Network That Makes Microservices Work

  Jitin Kayyala

  This article explains service mesh patterns for managing microservice communication, covering how sidecars like Envoy handle retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and load balancing transparently.

• Kube Resource Orchestrator: Manage any group of resources as one unit

  Vasily Pilitsyn

  This article shows how KRO manages ephemeral test environments as single Kubernetes API objects by orchestrating resource deployment in dependency order, with readiness conditions and a unified status across namespace, frontend, backend, and database.

• Troubleshooting Conan ZFS GitHub ARC Container Initialization slowness

  David L. Armstrong

  This case study debugs 30+ second GitHub ARC workflow pod startup delays caused by mixing nodeName with OpenEBS allowedTopologies constraints, resolving it by enabling ACTIONS_RUNNER_USE_KUBE_SCHEDULER to use nodeAffinity instead.

• The IIS Bottleneck: Why We Decided to Move to Kubernetes

  Ajay Edupuganti

  This article explains why Linecraft AI migrated from manual Windows IIS deployments to Kubernetes after facing multi-week release cycles, inconsistent environments from local server changes, and extended downtimes.

Even more articles →