22 Nov
Insights from Kubecon 2023 – K8s for GenAI, Efficiency, and Sustainability
Last week, I attended Kubecon 2023 in Chicago, a conference I prioritize as it’s a unique opportunity to learn what the cloud-native community is up to and where it’s headed. I came home with some new insights about the direction
17 May
Akamas for Dynatrace AppEngine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoTKOwx6e2o In this video, we preview the Akamas app for Dynatrace AppEngine – an autonomous optimization solution that helps customers reduce costs and improve the reliability and performance of applications. This app brings Akamas optimization directly into Dynatrace, allowing customers
15 Apr
Sisal Case Study: Pioneering innovation in resource optimization with AI
Explore how Sisal, a leading gaming operator with 35 million customers, achieved a 58% cost reduction for critical Kubernetes microservices using Akamas’ AI-powered optimization platform. The Challenge: Sisal needed to optimize Kubernetes microservices for maximum cost savings without impacting application
28 Jan
The dark side of Kubernetes? Light it up with application-aware optimization
There is a “dark side” to Kubernetes that makes it difficult to ensure the desired performance and resilience of cloud-native applications, while also keeping their costs under control. Indeed, the combined effect of Kubernetes resource management mechanisms and application runtime heuristics may cause serious performance and resilience risks.
15 Nov
Akamas Live Optimizations Video Series
Akamas provides a single platform to optimize applications both in pre-production environments, for example to anticipate planned changes, cloud migration or chaos engineering scenarios, and directly live in production while applications are running under dynamically varying workloads. This video series
14 Nov
Akamas CEO and CTO interview at Kubecon 2022 with Scott Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JDdu0kjRwk Watch this interview by Scott Moore with Luca Forni (Akamas CEO) and Stefano Doni (Akamas CTO) at the Akamas booth at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 in Detroit. Scott, Luca and Stefano touch on several topics, including the
11 Nov
Kubecon 2022 review: Application-aware Kubernetes comes to town!
Last month the Akamas team had the pleasure to join 7000+ attendees as Silver sponsor of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 conference organized by the Cloud Native Foundation (CNCF) in Detroit. What a great time we had, meeting
21 Oct
Is AI-powered autonomous optimization the answer to the Kubernetes dilemma?
Notice: An abridged version of this interview has been published as Akamas contributed content by TFIR for the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon NA 2022 in Detroit, October 24-28 Stefano Doni, CTO at Kubernetes optimization company Akamas, and long-time CMG contributor and Best Paper
19 Oct
Test Guild: Live Kubernetes Optimization in Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Lw5MYgzz8 How cool would it be to optimize live systems running in production environments? In this episode, Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, shares some ways to meet the challenge of optimizing Kubernetes in production. Discover how AI technology can help
18 Oct
Accelerate digital innovation with Self-service Developer Portals and AI-powered Kubernetes optimiza...
Today developers are often spending more time on managing Kubernetes than focusing on developing applications running on Kubernetes. This situation is exacerbated by the shortage of Kubernetes skills and by the complexity of developing and delivering well-tuned applications in Kubernetes
10 Oct
PurePerformance: How to optimize Kubernetes workloads with Akamas
Listen to “How to optimize performance and cost of k8s workloads with Stefano Doni” on Spreaker. Over the years we learned how to optimize the performance of our JVMs, our CLRs or our databases instances by tweaking settings around heap
16 Jun
Moviri speech at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-G6yMavQrU&list=PLMQ6KXOiwvyki0i258HhaLj-NhzOchpHZ&index=24Akamas strategic partner Moviri, delivered a presentation on “Getting the optimal service efficiency that autoscalers won’t give you” at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference. Mauro Pessina, Manager Performance Engineering Business Line at Moviri, shared the results of extensive tuning
07 Jun
Squeezing more (orange) juice from Kubernetes
Our notes from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Valencia KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 – what a fantastic event! I’m sure my feeling is shared by many among the 7,000 in-person attendees and 10,000 that followed from home. We had the pleasure
16 May
Conf42 Cloud Native: Cheap or fast? How we got both by leveraging ML to automatically tune K8s apps
One of the top benefits of Kubernetes is efficiency. Nevertheless, several companies adopting Kubernetes may experience high costs and performance issues. The challenge of manually tuning Kubernetes applications is well known to Performance Engineers and SREs. During his session at
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