In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Philip Laine, creator and core maintainer of Spegal.

Spegel is for you if you are looking to do any of the following.

• Locally cache images from external registries with no explicit configuration.
• Avoid cluster failure during external registry downtime.
• Improve image pull speed and pod startup time by pulling images from the local cache first.
• Avoid rate-limiting when pulling images from external registries (e.g. Docker Hub).
• Decrease egressing traffic outside of the clusters network.
• Increase image pull efficiency in edge node deployments.

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Matthias from ARMO to talk about all things security (compliance, container security, AppSec, etc.), contributing to open-source, and career progressions across the software and cybersecurity journey.

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Cortney Nickerson who leads Community at Kyverno, a Policy-as-Code tool for Kuberernetes and cloud-based environments.

In this episode of Platform and Cloud Cafe', Kristina and Michael are joined by Antonio Di Turi, Sustainability Lead for the Sunstainability CNCF Working Group to talk about the WG, it's initiaivites, and how you can get involved.

https://youtu.be/4OdYWliYpPg?si=_x5Z55s3gRUaceUO

Join the Sustainability Slack channel!

https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C060EDHN431

Check out the Sustainability WG tooling.

https://github.com/cncf-tags/green-reviews-tooling

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael break down the five key methods for deploying workloads in Microsoft Azure based on company/team needs, workload size, and scalability.

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael sit down with Ned Bellavance to talk about how AI will change the trajectory of many individuals careers along with the right mindset everyone should adopt to further their careers.

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael chat about the past, present, and future of IDPs.

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe', Kristina and Michael break down the importance of WASM and it's future.

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wizer

https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/introduction.html

In this episode, Michael and Kristina are joined by Daniel Dagfinrud to chat about his open-source project, Netfetch, which is a project that can truly change the way engineers see Kubernetes security. Here's the project repo! https://github.com/deggja/netfetch/tree/main

In this episode of the Platform & Cloud Cafe' podcast, Kristina and Michael are joined by Richard Hooper (pixel_robots) to discuss what it takes to become a Microsoft MVP.