Other authorization techniques gather data at check time. OpenFGA stores relationships as they happen, so the answer is already there. No computation needed. Lightboard notes from the OpenFGA ep of 🌩️Thunder with Raghd Hamzeh: gist.github.com/wiggitywh…

Other authorization techniques gather data at check time. OpenFGA stores relationships as they happen, so the answer is already there. No computation needed. Lightboard notes from the OpenFGA ep of 🌩️Thunder with Raghd Hamzeh: https://gist.github.com/wiggitywhitney/fc4c46a579c8754af3ed707e3a70f632

This lightboard from the Cilium episode of 🌩️Thunder with Duffie Cooley walks through how Cilium works, step by step. Read the full board notes here: gist.github.com/wiggitywh…

In this episode of 🌩️Thunder, @mauilion.bsky.social, Field CTO at Isovalent, explains how Cilium attaches an eBPF program to each pod's network namespace at creation time. That single hook is how it delivers networking, security, and observability at native kernel speed. https://youtu.be/slJP_CS5XcE

Datadog Illuminated: OpenLineage — A Common Observability Framework for Data Pipelines, with Julien Le Dem

In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, @nathenharvey.bsky.social, who leads the DORA research program at Google, explains what 15 years of data reveals about AI's impact on software delivery. AI amplifies what's already there, good or bad. https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/118

[Keynote] Cloud Native Days Romania: Ozzie & Nova: A Kubernetes Security Play

There's more code and less understood code in production, so observability becomes critical. Austin Parker explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/RNaa_48LWBY #OpenTelemetry #GenAI #Observability #LLM #AIAgents #CNCF

Datadog Illuminated: OpenLineage — A Common Observability Framework for Data Pipelines, with Julien Le Dem

When people say "I'm using Gen AI," they might mean fine-tuning models, adding Gen AI features to existing software, or using AI to help them code. Austin Parker explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/RNaa_48LWBY #OpenTelemetry #GenAI #Observability #LLM #AIAgents #CNCF

🌩️ Thunder: Build and Run AI Agents on Kubernetes with Kagent

Software Defined Interviews: Deming, DevOps History, AI Risk, and Critical Thinking, with John Willis

User feedback can be incorporated into your SLOs to determine the success of your system. Austin Parker explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/RNaa_48LWBY #OpenTelemetry #GenAI #Observability #LLM #AIAgents #CNCF

Datadog Illuminated: Evaluating the Datadog MCP Server, with Scott Yak

An agent is simply a large language model using tools in a loop. Austin Parker explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/RNaa_48LWBY #OpenTelemetry #GenAI #Observability #LLM #AIAgents #CNCF

Here’s the finished board from my 🌩️ Thunder episode with Austin Parker. GenAI success = happy user, not just a successful HTTP response. Read the full board notes here: gist.github.com/wiggitywh…

Attribute-based authorization gathers data at check time — calling databases, computing logic, all while the user waits. OpenFGA stores relationships when they happen, so checks don't require database calls. Raghd Hamzeh explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/HCniFFtEmwQ

Your GenAI feature returned a 200. But was the answer any good? Traditional observability can't tell you. @aparker.io explains how OpenTelemetry lets you combine user feedback with performance data so you know if your GenAI features are working. Watch now → https://youtu.be/RNaa_48LWBY

Lian Li spent 16 years in tech, quit to pursue stand-up comedy and improv theater, and came back with a completely different take on what makes teams work. @lianmakesthings.bsky.social is featured in this episode of Software Defined Interviews: https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/117

I love my brother so very much ♥ https://whitneylee.com/2026/06/12/i-love-my-brother-so.html

Morning walk in Williamsburg

Datadog DASH is a wrap! ♫

LLMday Austin: The Best Laid Spans: An AI Agent That Instruments Your Code with OpenTelemetry

How hard should "share this document with Whitney" be to implement? With OpenFGA, you tell it "Whitney is an editor of this document" — and you're done. Raghd Hamzeh explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/HCniFFtEmwQ #OpenFGA #Authorization #CNCF #Security #DevOps

SREday Austin: Livin' In the Future: Your Platform’s Next Interface Is an AI Agent

What if switching teams didn't mean relearning how authorization works in yet another codebase? Raghd Hamzeh explains in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/HCniFFtEmwQ #OpenFGA #Authorization #CNCF #Security #DevOps

🌩️ Thunder: What Are SPIFFE and SPIRE? Workload Identity Explained

Why does attribute-based authorization slow down at scale? It's making database calls every time someone tries to access something. Raghd Hamzeh explains what OpenFGA does differently in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/HCniFFtEmwQ #OpenFGA #Authorization #CNCF #Security #DevOps

⚡️Enlightning: Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native (with Lin Sun)

With RBAC (role-based access control), you’re either an admin who can edit everything or a viewer who can edit nothing. There’s no “Whitney can edit this document but not that one” without custom application logic. In this... https://whitneylee.com/2026/05/30/with-rbac-rolebased-access-control.html

Raghd Hamzeh explains relationship-based authorization — tell OpenFGA about relationships when they happen, and it already knows the answer at access time. Watch now → https://youtu.be/HCniFFtEmwQ

⚡️Enlightning: ⚡️Enlightning — Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native (with Lin Sun)

Headlamp is a Kubernetes UI built for extensibility. Teams can build custom Kubernetes experiences on top of it without modifying its source code. Joaquim Rocha explains how in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/VFOSyKVOPxs

This is such a wonderful dedication to @krisnova.net in @whitneylee.com talk at #CloudNativeDaysRomania 💙

Watching @whitneylee.com deliver a talk about using an AI agent as a coding assistant for developing an internal platform. She’s genuinely a great teacher!

In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Joaquim Rocha, Headlamp maintainer at Microsoft, explains how Headlamp gives teams a Kubernetes UI that’s generic enough for most users and extensible enough to build entirely custom experiences on to... https://whitneylee.com/2026/05/13/in-this-episode-of-thunder.html

Surveys have shown that less than 2% of people one or two layers around you as a leader understand what the priorities are. Julia Hoggett, the London Stock Exchange CEO, says she spends a third of her time constantly creating th... https://whitneylee.com/2026/05/12/surveys-have-shown-that-less.html

KubeCon Europe: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale

Going live NOW! Join Lin Sun and me for an ⚡️ Enlightning livestream about kagent! www.youtube.com/live/SjiFGqt... #kagent #Kubernetes #AIAgents #CNCF #CloudNative

Coming soon! Join me and my illustrious guest Lin Sun (Head of Open Source at Solo.io, CNCF TOC member, and Kagent co-creator) for an ⚡️ Enlightning livestream about kagent! I can’t wait! Click ‘notify me’: www.youtube.com/live/SjiF… https://whitneylee.com/2026/05/08/coming-soon-join-me-and.html

Coming soon! Join me and my illustrious guest Lin Sun (Head of Open Source at Solo.io, CNCF TOC member, and Kagent co-creator) for an ⚡️ Enlightning livestream about kagent! I can't wait! Click 'notify me': www.youtube.com/live/SjiFGqt... #Kagent #Kubernetes #AIAgents #CNCF

Google Cloud Next: How Wendy’s got to 99.95% availability (and how you can too)

🌩️ Thunder: What Is Network Service Mesh? Workload Connectivity at Layer 3

Datadog Illuminated: Building the Datadog MCP Server, with Reilly Wood

Pixie is an open source observability tool that automatically collects telemetry data from your Kubernetes cluster. No code instrumentation required. Michelle Nguyen explains how in this 🌩️ Thunder episode: https://youtu.be/hZ-a72ggR1M

Less than 2% of people one or two layers around you as a leader understand what the priorities are. Jana Werner talked to 70 executives about why, and what the best ones do differently. https://youtu.be/GPGGazjeTOI

🌩️ Thunder: No More Manual Management - Simplify Kubernetes RBAC with Paralus

Goofin’ w David Faircloth, VP of Architecture and Engineering at Wendy’s, at Google Cloud Next ヘ( ^o^)ノ＼(^_^ )

Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day: Rollout on Reception: Progressive Delivery for GenAI Apps Using Real-Time User Feedback

Platform Engineering Day: Scaling on Satisfaction: Automated Rollouts Driven by User Feedback