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Corbin Pacheco shared thisThis was one of the key highlights of my trip! If you are headed to the next Kubecon, I highly recommend getting up early to join. In an unconference style, you define the topics, short bite sized discussions, and usually something tangible to walk away with. #platformcoffee #kubeconCNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisPlatform Coffee Day 3 ✅ It was a rainy morning here in Amsterdam but that didn't stop the platformers from joining in for a hot cup of coffee! We saw the biggest gathering at platform coffee today and had a range of topics being discussed from adoption and AI to evergreeing apps and managing abstractions. Also, we have a full day booth today in the project pavillion 17B, so do join in to discuss platforms and we also have lightening talks starting 1 PM. See you there! Thanks once again to David Stenglein and Platform Cafe for supporting the meetup. #PlatformEngineering #Community #Meetup #KubeConEU -
Corbin Pacheco shared thisAs expected, it was an exhilarating week at #Kubecon in Amsterdam. The cloud native ecosystem in Europe is booming! This week I spent more time around the booth chatting with folks and less time in EBCs or sessions. I encountered a lot of “juniors” and while there is some people talking about less opportunities for them, I saw them in full force. I met some giving talks on what it is like and how to progress. It’s a critical role for the future growing up in the age of AI. One idea we were discussing is how to better cater to the senior PE audience and at the same time the juniors just learning. Do we need to split the conference in tracks along those lines Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)? The highlight for me is always about connecting with old friends and making new friends in the ecosystem. I joined the CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group Coffee Meetup hosted by David Stenglein Chris Plank ☁ Atulpriya Sharma Colin Griffin . It was a packed house and keeps me excited about the work in this space. I woke up with a bit of a hangover this morning, not from the Dutch beer but from the deep thought about the future of autonomous infrastructure. How does Kubernetes and the ecosystem need to evolve to address developer productivity, autonomous operations, and the infrastructure needed to support the future business applications that rely on reasoning? I spent the last 6-12 months diving in and I’m only standing ankle deep. It’s going to be an exciting 2026! Thank you Kubecon - Thank You Community! #kubecon #kubeconeu2026 #kubernetes #platformengineering #cncf #infraforai #community
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisIt's day 0 at #Kubecon in Amsterdam and looking over all of the things Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bringing to show, its going to be an exciting week!! I need a few clones of myself because there is so much to catch. If you are curious what we are up to, you can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gDbu4w-v Action packed workshops, booth demos, and a bunch of compelling talks! Come by and see us and remember that outside of all the amazing talks this week, you are most likely to learn more in the hallway track, so don't be afraid to make some new friends and chat with someone new. Everyone is here for the same thing.
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisThis is an excellent article from John Philips and indeed the patterns we see from some of the worlds most elite software organizations. As these same organizations look ahead. This is becoming less about best practices and more about critical capabilities needed to realize the benefits of an AI-driven software future. Today I tend to think of these as foundational capabilities on which to build AI-ready platforms. While we have a glimpse of what good looks like for an AI-ready platform, it’s still very much early days with a rapidly evolving ecosystem and patterns (much like the early days of the CNCF - many competing open source projects, no clear winners, and a sea of choices). The best approach is to realize that this is a journey, not a destination; a practice requiring continuous improvement, assessment, and planning. It highlights the importance of the product mindset. It’s an exciting time to be building!Corbin Pacheco shared thisAs KubeCon + CloudNative Europe 2026 approaches, I want to share my recently published blog on Platform Engineering. Although I won't be attending the conference this year, I encourage you to visit my AWS colleagues at Booth 700 in Amsterdam from March 23-26. At the booth, you can explore kro, CNOE reference implementations, and connect with platform engineering experts. Discover how organizations are successfully building developer platforms that strike a balance between autonomy and organizational standards. Read my blog here: https://lnkd.in/ez-dE-4DThe Future of Platform Engineering: Where Developer Freedom Meets Organizational ControlThe Future of Platform Engineering: Where Developer Freedom Meets Organizational Control
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisI’m packed and heading to Amsterdam! I know a lot of folks aren’t super excited about talking about AI all the time, but I am! If you want to chat about AI-ready platforms and the future of platform engineering find me! I’m hoping to come by the platform coffees this week to catch up with the platform engineering community this week. 🚀 #aireadyplatforms #futureofplatforms #platformengineering #kubecon Colin Griffin Chris Plank ☁ David Stenglein Abby Bangser Joseph Sandoval Steve Fenton Matt Meckes Carlos Santana Jesse Butler Ellis Tarn Elamaran Shanmugam Aditya Ramakrishnan Sabari Sawant Alex Kestner
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisLooking forward to being back for Kubecon Europe! While some things are the same, I think the vibe between Europe and NA are different. Hoping to see friends both old and new! Stop by and see us at the AWS booth! #kubeconCorbin Pacheco shared this⌛ T-minus 10 days until #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Netherlands! AWS is bringing a full lineup to Amsterdam March 23–26 from hands-on workshops to real conversations about making #Kubernetes simpler to operate at scale. Day 0 Workshops (March 23): Two free sessions on building production platforms and scaling GenAI inference on Kubernetes. No KubeCon pass required 🎓 Meet us at Booth #700: Live demos, 20+ lightning talks across four tracks: Kubernetes automation, AI/ML workloads, #GitOps platforms, and Day-2 operations 🚀 Full details on schedule and programming: https://lnkd.in/g4e2h8yV See you in Amsterdam 🔜
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisIf you are working on #platformengineering with #kubernetes you won’t want to miss this session. Maybe an unpopular view, but I see providing abstractions like these as the way forward for accelerating agents to operate infrastructure reliably. For now I’m using this as my hypothesis which I will be working to disprove. #kro #ack #argocd #eks #awsCorbin Pacheco shared this🚀 EKS Capabilities Deep Dive: ArgoCD, KRO, and ACK Join us live as we explore how to extend and supercharge your Amazon EKS clusters using some of the most powerful open-source and AWS-native tools. In this session, we’ll cover: - ArgoCD for GitOps-driven continuous delivery on Kubernetes - Kubernetes Resource Operators (KRO) for simplifying resource management and automation - AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) to manage AWS services directly through Kubernetes manifests You’ll learn how these tools work together to build an efficient, scalable, and fully automated EKS environment. Expect live demos, best practices, and tips for integrating them into real-world DevOps workflows. Looking forward on having Sriram Ranganathan and Amine Hilaly on the live show this week. 💡 Who should join: Cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, and anyone looking to master modern AWS + Kubernetes automation. 🔴 Live Q&A: Bring your questions! We’ll take them live and walk through practical examples. #GitOps #ArgoCD #KRO #ACK #EKS #CNCF
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisIf you are working on #platformengineering with #kubernetes you won’t want to miss this session. Maybe an unpopular view, but I see providing abstractions like these as the way forward for accelerating agents to operate infrastructure reliably. For now I’m using this as my hypothesis which I will be working to disprove. #kro #ack #argocd #eks #awsCorbin Pacheco shared this🚀 EKS Capabilities Deep Dive: ArgoCD, KRO, and ACK Join us live as we explore how to extend and supercharge your Amazon EKS clusters using some of the most powerful open-source and AWS-native tools. In this session, we’ll cover: - ArgoCD for GitOps-driven continuous delivery on Kubernetes - Kubernetes Resource Operators (KRO) for simplifying resource management and automation - AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) to manage AWS services directly through Kubernetes manifests You’ll learn how these tools work together to build an efficient, scalable, and fully automated EKS environment. Expect live demos, best practices, and tips for integrating them into real-world DevOps workflows. Looking forward on having Sriram Ranganathan and Amine Hilaly on the live show this week. 💡 Who should join: Cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, and anyone looking to master modern AWS + Kubernetes automation. 🔴 Live Q&A: Bring your questions! We’ll take them live and walk through practical examples. #GitOps #ArgoCD #KRO #ACK #EKS #CNCF
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Corbin Pacheco shared thisOne of the mosts challenging aspects of managing #AI workloads at scale on Kubernetes is addressing the reliability of #GPUs. Issues with GPUs can create critical impact to long running training jobs or user facing impact for inference workloads. Monitoring and repair of GPUs becomes a critical capability in these environments. EKS has been investing in this for some time, however until recently that work has largely been closed source. As a result of that I think it lacks the critical feedback loop and contributions from the community needed for a robust solution in this area. That is why I'm super excited to see that the EKS team has open sourced this work. While we do have some plans for where this headed, it opens the door for the community to provide feedback, input, or contribute to the project. Announcement is here: https://lnkd.in/gHC3SkZi #eks #aiml #genai #gpu #opensource #training #finetuning #inference #selfhealing
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisI once wanted to start a series called "Haikubernetes." This one’s for Chris Plank ☁: Planko, fisherman blank mind, lake still, flowing free not all about tech — Funny how the best ideas don’t show up when you’re staring at your screen. For him: fishing For me: boxing + playing music What’s yours?
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisWe’re hiring a Software Engineering Architect to design the highly reliable, AI-driven systems powering Salesforce’s planet-scale containerization platform. If you’re a master of complex cloud-native architecture, let’s build the future of the industry’s biggest puzzles. 🚀 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/g6cupr57
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisI sneaked pictures of my dog into my conference talk. That officially makes it my favorite talk to give. :D Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) #KubeCon EU 2026 is in the books and honestly, what a week. Speaking on Platform Engineering CoLo Day was a blast - and the questions and conversations that followed even more so. We had to move the questions outside the room and I kept getting feedback and further questions about the talk throughout the whole week. That says a lot! CoLo Days have quietly become my secret favorite at KubeCons and the other talks I saw only confirmed that. But the absolute highlight as always: the people. Between the sponsor floor, the after parties, the Platform Engineering Meetup, and the Platform Coffee - even if I just made it out at 7am in the morning once this year :D But it was so good to see all the CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group folks again and big thanks to David Stenglein for sponsoring those! - there was no shortage of amazing community moments. So many incredible folks I got to reconnect with, many of whom I'm lucky to call friends by now. I'll admit I didn't walk around as much as I usually do this year - most of my time went into our Giant Swarm booth. But totally worth it. Having a new pitch around the curated platform engineering stack that resonated with so many people was already great. But actually being able to demo how our products and platform experience look in practice? That's something else entirely. Especially our AI Orchestration Platform. With so many new AI products at KubeCon I was a bit worried we'd just be "yet another AI platform". Turns out I was wrong. As I kept saying at the booth: we did what we do best. We had real problems with our every day work with AI agents at the scale we operate. We solved them, and voila - turns out that's exactly what other people need too. Can't wait to push this further. Oh and one more thing that makes me ridiculously happy: KubeCon EU 2028 comes to Berlin. My hometown. I get to go to KubeCon and sleep in my own bed. I am sooo looking forward to welcoming all of you Cloud Native folks to this beautiful city! 🚀 What was your KubeCon highlight? And who's already counting down to Berlin 2028?
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisI'm incredibly humbled to share that I've been selected as one of 122 AWS Legend Award winners for 2025, out of tens of thousands of employees across Amazon Web Services (AWS). The highlight of the award was getting to meet with AWS senior leadership and hear firsthand how the work we do with customers connects to the bigger picture. The Legend award recognizes Amazonians who exemplify the Leadership Principles in extraordinary ways, and being included in this group is something I don't take lightly. 2025 was a year of building for me... from helping customers like OpenAI and Workday architect and scale on AWS, co-authoring a whitepaper about "Rethinking SaaS in the Agentic Era," presenting at re:Invent, and working alongside some of the most talented engineers and leaders in the industry. None of this happens alone. This reflects the incredible teams I get to work with every day... the service teams who solve impossible problems, the account teams who show up for customers, and the customers themselves who trust us with their most critical workloads. I'm incredibly grateful for the recognition, and even more grateful for the people who make this work meaningful and even fun. #AWS #LegendAward #SolutionsArchitect #CloudComputing #Grateful
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisOn Wednesday Xiaohui "Dawn" Chen and I presented The Future of Kubernetes Node Lifecycle at Kubecon EU to a packed room. Over 1,600 of you registered, the CNCF had to set up a livestream for overflow and deploy crowd control. Thank you. For those who couldn't make it, I've written up the key points. Why Kubernetes current approach to eviction needs to evolve, three features we want to deliver this year, and where we need to keep making progress. The recording will be on the CNCF YouTube channel soon. And if you're running Kubernetes at scale and want to help shape this work, the Node Lifecycle Working Group meets weekly on mondays. All are welcome.
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisl will be volunteering at Optimized AI Conference in Atlanta (March 30th and 31st). Happy to meet and chat about AI Infra, Inference, kubernetes, AIML & HPC. Looking forward to the event. #aiml #optimizedaiconference #volunteering #OAI2026Corbin Pacheco liked this⏳ 𝟮 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼 - 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲! The wait is over and Optimized AI Conference 2026 is about to begin. In just 48 hours, we’ll be bringing together some of the brightest minds in AI including builders, researchers, and leaders, all under one roof in Atlanta. This is where: ⚡ Ideas turn into real systems ⚡ Conversations turn into collaborations ⚡ Learning turns into building From keynotes by industry leaders to hands-on workshops and deep technical sessions, everything is designed for one thing: AI in production. 👉 Join our Discord and start connecting with the community before Day 1: https://lnkd.in/eDqBHamU The stage is set. Are you ready? See you in 2 days 🚀 #OptimizedAIConference #AgenticAI
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisThis KubeCon was something else. Honestly? I wasn't even planning to be here — but somehow it turned into the most memorable one yet. And the biggest KubeCon in history. Wild. A few things I'm taking home with me: Giving a keynote was a full new experience, mainly with a bike being involved. Full stop. But sharing that stage with Katie, Karena, and Chad in front of that crowd? That's a story I'm going to be telling for a while. Grateful doesn't even cover it. Every conversation I had on the floor reminded me why I keep showing up to these events. You talk to people building things you've never even heard of and suddenly you're already mentally sketching out how it fits into your day-to-day. That energy is hard to replicate anywhere else. Seeing the Ambassador community and watching how we're collectively growing open source — this is the stuff. Every year it hits different. And of course catching up with the AWS Heroes crew and the team. Always a highlight. Big thank you to Chris, Jonathan, and the entire Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Events team — you consistently pull off the impossible and make it look easy. Appreciate you. Yesterday was the last day. Today I'm heading home. See you all soon #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #CNCF
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Corbin Pacheco liked thisCorbin Pacheco liked thisPlatform Coffee Kubecon EU 2026 The CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group and Platform Cafe lean coffee series this week was a complete success! We had: Engaging discussions around great topics. Wonderful coffee and fresh croissants. The chance to see people in person! Thanks to all who came and join us online at Platform Cafe and the TCG.
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Corbin Pacheco reacted on thisCorbin Pacheco reacted on this🧐I've been thinking about this question a lot lately: should you design your agent to be model-agnostic or model-specific? The instinct is to go agnostic. Build an abstraction layer, swap models freely, avoid lock-in. And for your interfaces like tool schemas, message formats, the agent loop itself, that's absolutely right. Keep those portable. 🤔But here's where it gets interesting. Models have behavioral patterns that directly affect your architecture choices. Not just capability differences , behavioral ones. How verbose is the model? Does it carry context forward on its own or treat each turn as standalone? Does it follow instructions literally or apply its own judgment? Does it need explicit reasoning time to handle complex routing, or does it do that naturally? These aren't academic questions. They determine things like: → Which context management strategy works → How you write your system prompt → Whether you need reasoning features enabled 🤖So the pattern I keep coming back to is: agnostic at the interface, model-aware at the core. Keep your tools, your orchestration framework, your API layer model-neutral. Bedrock's Converse API, Strands, LangChain all give you this. Make your context strategy, system prompt, reasoning config and inference parameters per-model configuration. Not hardcoded. Not scattered across your codebase. A config file that you swap when you swap models. This way, switching models is a config change, not a rewrite. But you're still getting the best out of whichever model you're running. The mistake I see most often: teams treat model selection as a one-time decision and then build everything around that model's quirks. Or they go fully agnostic and leave 30-40% of the model's capability on the table because they never tuned the context strategy or prompt for it. 🚀The middle ground is where the performance lives. #AgenticAI #AIArchitecture #LLM #AIEngineering
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