KCD Toronto 2026
Session Overview on MCP Servers, Agents, and Kubernetes Notes The session focused on selecting the right operators, gateways, and tooling for running MCP servers and AI agents on Kubernetes. The…
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Practical write-ups on cloud, Kubernetes, AI infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
Passthrough vs TLS/SSL Termination: When to Keep Encryption End-to-End
In the world of cloud-native applications, securing traffic with TLS/SSL is non-negotiable. But deciding where to decrypt that traffic at the ingress controller or at the backend can be tricky.…
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API Priority and Fairness
API Priority and Fairness (APF) in Kubernetes is a sophisticated system designed to manage how the Kubernetes API server handles incoming requests, especially during times of high traffic or…
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GitOps High Availability: The Missing Piece in Multi-Cloud Strategies
While many organizations focus on multi-cloud strategies for resilience, there’s a critical gap that often gets overlooked: What happens when your Git repository provider goes down? For teams…
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Orchestration vs Job Scheduling: Understanding the Differences and Applications in AI and HPC
In modern computing environments, managing workloads efficiently is critical. Two key concepts that often come up in this context are orchestration and job scheduling. While they may seem similar,…
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AI Maturity Model with Hybrid Approach for AI Model Deployment
The AI Maturity Model describes a journey from initial curiosity about AI to full integration where AI shapes the very essence of the business. Organizations can use this model to understand where…
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NVIDIA DGX GB200 (AI Lamborghini)
What Powers AI Models? Have you ever wondered what powers the AI models we hear so much about? Many people focus on the final AI applications they use every day, but behind the scenes, a…
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NVIDIA Networking in AI
Have you ever wondered what kind of networking topology powers an AI factory? Unlike traditional data centers that rely on north-south Ethernet networks, AI training environments require a…
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Is Moore’s Law dead?
Is Moore’s Law dead? Let’s break it down in simple terms. Moore’s Law is this idea from the 1960s that said the number of tiny switches (called transistors) inside computer chips would double…
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The AWS Summit Toronto: A Day Packed with Innovation
The AWS Summit Toronto was truly one for the books! From the engaging keynote sessions to hands-on workshops, every moment was packed with insights. Spending over eight hours at the summit was…
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Why EKS Control Planes Don’t All Crash Together (and Yours Shouldn’t Either)
I don’t work for AWS, but I often wonder how they achieve near zero downtime for services like Amazon EKS. AWS manages the control plane while customers manage the worker nodes, yet the EKS…
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Infrastructure as Code 2.0: Meet Crossplane, the Kubernetes Game-Changer
Understanding Crossplane: Control Planes, Providers, and Managed Resources I want to tell you about this cool tool called Crossplane that I really like. It was created by the folks at Upbound, a…
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Setting Up Kubernetes Authentication for Hashicorp Vault: Complete Implementation Guide
I remember the first time I had to deal with secrets in Kubernetes. What a mess! We had environment variables scattered throughout deployment files, secrets base64 encoded (which isn’t really…
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