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Conference50min
INTERMEDIATE

Making Efficiency a Platform Capability

This talk addresses the conflict between cost, speed, and reliability in software delivery. It proposes automating efficiency as a built-in platform feature using open source tools and dual feedback loops—one preventing performance regressions in pipelines and another auto-tuning production workloads based on real data, ensuring continuous, data-driven optimization.

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Graziano Casto
Graziano CastoAkamas

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Wednesday, June 17, 15:20-16:10
Room 4A
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There is a silent war happening in your organization. The Finance team demands lower cloud bills, Product demands faster features, and Reliability demands zero downtime. Caught in the middle is the Developer, expected to satisfy everyone manually, creating friction and cognitive load. To succeed, we must make efficiency an invisible platform capability. This talk explores a strategy to automate this balance using open source tools. We will implement a dual feedback loop: first, validating performance inside the pipeline to block regressions before they merge; second, analyzing production data to auto-tune workloads based on reality, not guesses. I will share a reference architecture and a live demo showing a pipeline that automatically rejects inefficient code, followed by an autonomous loop that opens a Pull Request to right-size resources based on real-world runtime behavior.
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Graziano Casto

Graziano Casto

Akamas

Italy

Graziano is a DevRel Engineer at Akamas, where he spends his days convincing computers to stop being lazy and start being efficient. A former distributed systems developer and product manager, he’s now on a mission to optimize the entire cloud-native universe, one Pod at a time. As a Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG DevEx and a member of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.34, he balances deep infrastructure roots with a passion for developer happiness. Obsessed with AI, Platform Engineering, and saving the planet through better code, Graziano is basically trying to make the cloud faster, greener, and significantly less annoying for everyone.

More on: https://castograziano.com/