Rajas Kakodkar
rajaskakodkar.bsky.social
Rajas Kakodkar
@rajaskakodkar.bsky.social
Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom • Kubernetes • All things Cloud Native and AI
#CloudNative + #Kubernetes #AI Day is about to start!
April 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“It’s not a phone; it’s a car” 💯
Volkswagen is bringing back knobs and switches for controlling the sound system volume, heating, fans, and hazard light.

I think automakers went overboard with touchscreen controls for everything and I personally found it annoying when I tried driving a Tesla.

Glad to see the trend reversing.
Volkswagen brings back physical controls for essential cabin functions
Volkswagen will bring back physical controls for some of its vehicles' most essential cabin controls. According to Andreas Mindt, head of design for the German carmaker, replacing...
www.techspot.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Keynotes getting started at Day 2 #KubeCon India
December 12, 2024 at 4:11 AM
#justindiathings at #kubecon India! Thank you @arungupta.bsky.social for the amazing food recommendations in Chandi Chowk!
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
CNCF MAINTAINERS - there are lots of KubeCon EU deadlines coming up! The deadline for Maintainer Summit sessions (Maintainers only) is closing tomorrow! Check out the Project Opportunities page for more info!
🚨 CNCF MAINTAINERS 🚨 KubeCon EU CFPs / Deadlines!

Maintainer track, lightning talks, and pavilion deadlines have been EXTENDED to Wed. Dec. 11th.
bit.ly/kceu25-proje...

Maintainer Summit CFP deadlines are:
- Wave 1: Sun. Dec. 8th, 2024
- Wave 2: Sun. Jan 12th, 2025
bit.ly/cncf-mseu25-...
Project Opportunities | LF Events
Projects and Working Groups under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella have the opportunity to engage, network, and collaborate with peers and like-minded people in the cloud native…
events.linuxfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:57 PM
@akhilerm.com telling us what help contianerd project needs from a maintainer’s lens at #kubecon India
December 11, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
The room bursts into laughter for 2023
December 11, 2024 at 5:14 AM
@lachie.bsky.social has summed up every keynote at #kubecon India so well here!
KubeCon India! Let’s go! 🇮🇳 #KubeConIndia
December 11, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Thanks to @randomvariable.co.uk I’m now in the “this is a 2025 problem, see you next year” mode!
December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
FYI, here's the entire code to create a dataset of every single bsky message in real time:

```
from atproto import *
def f(m): print(m.header, parse_subscribe_repos_message())
FirehoseSubscribeReposClient().start(f)
```
November 28, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Super excited for this one and the CFP closes on 4th Dec sessionize.com/cncf-hosted-...!
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
I've been writing a lot about the terminal recently, and I've realized that there are two kinds of rules in the terminal:

- "Laws of Terminal Physics"(that are ~always true)
- Social Rules (that only work because people mostly agree on them)

here are some of the social rules!
November 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Back from kubecon and I can’t recollect my work laptop password!
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
This was a very interesting piece of work over a couple of years that we drove in the community and it makes me so happy to see the impact it’s had ♥️🎉
graph of the day!
November 19, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
Great quote from @karenaangell.bsky.social at the KubeCon “Tick TAG TOC” talk: “if we don’t identify the processes we can’t automate them away”.
November 15, 2024 at 10:27 PM
This keynote was so much fun! Huge kudos to @thock.in and everyone involved! Y’all rocked the stage!
Now the moment we have truly been waiting for: Kubernetes Family Feud at #KubeCon with @thock.in!! This is incredible. The energy is incredible. The contestant intros are somehow even better 😆
November 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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We say goodbye to KubeCon Co-Chair @thenikhita.bsky.social. Thank you for all your work!
November 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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“If we had ignored container orchestration a decade ago, we’d still be writing init scripts and crying.”😹 Much work ahead in the AI space: we can’t ignore the new risks and opportunities. @thenikhita.bsky.social #KubeCon
November 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Rajas Kakodkar
Lifetime achievement award! @thock.in accepts by sharing credit with the whole community.💕✨💫 #KubeCon
November 14, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Today at #kubecon, I will be talking to @rochaporto.bsky.social, Kevin Klues, Joseph Sandoval and Dawn Chen on integrating AI with cloud native at 11am in 255E Level 2 sched.co/1i7qR

Note that this panel was moved from Friday to today on sched! Looking forward to this exciting conversation!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: From Vectors to Pods: Integrating AI wit...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:39 PM
@rochaporto.bsky.social just had the coolest multikueue demo with #CERN prod systems on the keynote stage at #kubecon and Marcin Wielgus had the prettiest slides on the topic!
November 13, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Shane Lawrence showing attacks on AI in real time with pretty cool demos!
November 12, 2024 at 4:56 PM
We have kickstarted the #CloudNative and #Kubernetes #AI Day in Level 1 Grand Ballroom A with Anne Holler talking about SkyRay!
November 12, 2024 at 4:17 PM