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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) @cncf.io · 11/06/2026

#KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon India is hitting Mumbai next week! 🇮🇳 Join @hrittik.bsky.social and the cloud native community to talk #Kubernetes, share production insights, and connect with fellow builders face-to-face. Grab your spot, and attend Hrittik's session: sched.co/2IW4W

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Curious to see the DataDog DASH 2026 announcements this week. Are they going to address the key customer complaints: cost predictability, lack of Otel support and will the new AI agents support a multi-vendor environment?

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Lock-in in the #Observability world: "The math to switch made sense, but the team had 385 dashboards and 1,200 monitors and estimated 6-8 months to migrate everything. Dashboards do not map cleanly across platforms."

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Heatmap of session topics for upcoming KubeCon 2026 India. -> Seems like scalability for AI, networking, observability, and storage for Kubernetes is finally taking center stage.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Took a quick walk in Prague this afternoon before flying back to London. Definitely have to come back here for fun. #susecon

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

SUSECON keynote 2: Dr T positions SUSE's approach toward resilience as proactive. -> Pepsico on stage talking about using resilience to provide the "capacity for innovation" --> SAP foundation has to be rock solid and consistent across data centers, clouds, and regions. #MultiLinux #MultiKubernetes

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sovereignty, resiliency, governance, and control are the key topics here at #SUSECON 2026 in Prague. This strong focus on compliance is interesting and I'm curious how it goes together with simplicity and ease of use. Of course, AI is by far the leader when it comes to key technologies.

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Bar chart showing AI as the key technology at SuseCon

Bar chart, showing digital sovereignity and digital resilience as the key topics at SuseCon.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Vendors still hard at work building booths at KubeCon 2026 in Amsterdam. #cncf @omdiahq.bsky.social

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

AI and security are the central topic hubs based on the 545 sessions at KubeCon in Amsterdam. AI and security are at the center of the map. I look forward to seeing everyone in Amsterdam this week! #KubeCon #CNCF #Omdia #CloudNative @omdiahq.bsky.social

Network graph showing the dominant themes at KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam, based on analysis of 454 conference sessions. Ten topic clusters — AI/ML, Security, Observability, GPU, Networking, Scheduling, Multi-cluster, Platform Engineering, GitOps, and Storage — are arranged by force-directed layout, with key terms inside each cluster (e.g., "inference," "llm," and "kubeflow" inside AI/ML; "opentelemetry," "prometheus," and "tracing" inside Observability). Thick grey lines between clusters show cross-topic session overlap: AI/ML and GPU share 53 sessions (the strongest link), followed by AI/ML–Scheduling (38), AI/ML–Observability (36), and AI/ML–Security (35). Security acts as a second hub, bridging to Multi-cluster (28) and Networking (26). Storage and GitOps sit at the periphery with fewer cross-topic connections.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Omdia on Location at KubeCon in Atlanta youtu.be/G7k16vkfF_I?... @cncf.bsky.social great to chat cloud native transformation with my great colleagues Jim Frey and Melinda Marks. #cloudnative

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Omdia on Location at KubeCon 2025 in Atlanta: Cloud Native, AI, and Security Insights

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

All code commits to any of the 241 @cncf.bsky.social CNCF projects since the very beginning in 2014. 394K commits for Kubernetes so far, 165k for Cilium, 102k for OpenTelemetry and an impressive 82k for Backstage.

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

First talk of KubeCon ✅ Liz Rice, Joe Stringer, and I lead a discussion on what projects should think about when trying to write an effective AI policy. Slides are lights on details, but be sure to catch the full recording with all the conversations when it comes out

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Last English breakfast with all 4 food groups (sausage, bacon, egg and bread) at Heathrow. Looking forward to a fun week at #KubeCon in Atlanta. #Omdia

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My quick take on the $180 Million funding round for @n8n.io : www.techtarget.com/searchapparc... @omdiahq.bsky.social #AI #LLM #Funding #LowCode

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Why AI co-pilots will never become actual 'pilots' as long as they are based on LLMs. That's not a bad thing, as the production gain can be large. But just like an actor playing a doctor on TV is not really a doctor, a copilot using an llm is not a programmer. www.techtarget.com/searchapparc...

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AI agents are accelerators, not developer replacements | TechTarget

Learn how AI agents automate tasks like code generation, testing and documentation, but still require oversight for complex decision-making.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Cool chart showing the hairball of interconnections between AI and cloud companies. #TooBigToFail

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Machine Data trained LLMs and automatically generated dashboards for issue prevention. Very interesting Splunk .conf25 -> BLOG POST: www.techtarget.com/searchdatama... #Highlights #Splunk #Cisco #AICanvas #Observability

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Red Hat analyst summit in London: 1) virtualization and 2) AI -> not necessarily in that order. Theme: Disruption Needs Choice Key products: RHEL10, vLLM, llm-d, Lightspeed and of course OpenShift. Combination of open source and enterprise-grade support. @omdiahq.bsky.social #ESG #RedHat

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Wow, flying out of LAX now makes you use your face as a boarding pass. Even in a free country that much Tracking would be spooky.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

You can say what you want about Broadcom's app modernization and cloud strategy, but look at this stock growth. #VMwareExplore

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"We can vmotion LLM workloads just like anyhting else" -> need to look at the implications of that statement. #VMwareExplore

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"I'm the most excited about #Kubernetes being a native part of VCF 9" -> from the VMware Explore keynote.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"90% of enterprises have committed to VCF" -> "you are not alone. Everybody is moving this way" #VMwareExplore @vmware.bsky.social @broadcom.bsky.social @omdia.bsky.social

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"It is insane, I've been doing it since 25 years and I'm still loving it" -> intro #VMware Explore keynote. -> analysis of the latet announcements to follow -> #ESG @broadcom.bsky.social @vmware.bsky.social

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Love the term 'confident nonsense' to describe how LLMs are able to plausibly and fluently provide great-sounding explanations for entirely made-up 'facts'. -> here's my blog on Minimum Viable Observability, as the remedy for 'confident nonsense': www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimu...

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ESG Newsletter: Minimum Viable Observability for AI - The Foundation for AI Success at Scale

There are many impressive examples of Large Large Models (LLMs) generating plausible-sounding but completely unverified claims. Once an end user falls for one of these, they never view an LLM the same...

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Can't believe the best AI app builder closed down. Farewell Lazy AI. Interestingly, my favorite data notebook (the name escapes me now) also was shut down a while ago. Shows that quality is not (always) the key success factor for startups. #AppDev #Copilot #AI #ESG

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In case someone is interested in how to crash MacOS no matter how much RAM you have: Accidentally load a 50+GB size video into another video (instead of loading the intended 5MB photo). It's impressive how the power button becomes the only way out :-).

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Yes, AI and VM are the big topics of the day. A quarter century after the virtual machine was 'discovered'.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Quick chat with @jfrey80.bsky.social about #HPEDiscover 2025 in Vegas. #AIFactory was the top level theme for the entire conference, but there were many interesting 'sub topics', including the renaissance of #virtualization and the hunt for operational excellence. #ESG. youtu.be/wOvORB7-MKQ...

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ESG Quick Take - HPE Discover 2025 - Jim Frey and Torsten Volk

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The sphere is nice and all, but the Palazzo needs to clean its windows :)

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Morpheus, OpsRamp and Zerto are three components of the HPE Cloud Ops Software Suite. #HPEDiscover #HybridCloud

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Freaking amazing FX at #HPEDiscover keynote. Very innovation focused. Clear purpose of HPE advance how people live and work.

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Fun podcast with Beth Pariseau from @techtargetnews.bsky.social on the importance of GenAI for application modernization. -> GenAI and business transformation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... #ESG

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GenAI and business transformation

Podcast Episode · IT Ops Query · 05/22/2025 · 28m

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Top swear words and top company names in the linux kernel code. Very cool web app by vidarholen. Guess the top swear word and company BEFORE opening the chart :-).

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Very curious to give Gemini 2.5 pro a go this week. Let's see if Google has finally started catching up... #GenAI #GoogleCloudNext

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Torsten Volk @torstenvolk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

GKE Inference Gateway is an interesting announcement today at #GoogleCloudNext -> optimizing LLM performance and resource consumption on Google's GKE managed #Kubernetes offering. #ESG -> integration between AI and cloud infrastructure is key.

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