IPIvan Portaintodea.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 20 min readLLM Inference Explained: What Actually Happens When You Serve a ModelAs spending on frontier AI services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini climbs, usage caps hit developers, and open-source models gain popularity, most platform teams eventually need to serve an LLM on t00
IPIvan Portaintodea.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 6 min readKubeCon India 2026: Sovereign AI On A Cloud-Native StackKubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 in Mumbai ran on one throughline: sovereign AI as an architectural need rather than a slogan, with population-scale platforms like Sarvam and NPCI running on the sa00
IPIvan Portaintodea.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 6 min readLinkerd Explained: The Service Mesh That Stays Out of Your WayLinkerd is an open-source, CNCF-graduated service mesh that adds mTLS, retries, timeouts, and golden-signal metrics to Kubernetes services through a lightweight Rust-based micro-proxy, with no changes00
IPIvan Portaintodea.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 5 min readService Mesh Explained: Why Modern Platforms Need ItA service mesh is an infrastructure layer that moves service-to-service concerns (mTLS encryption, retries, timeouts, and golden-signal metrics) out of application code and into proxies your platform 00
IPIvan Portaintodea.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 12 min readWhat Platform Teams Can Expect From Crossplane v2.2Crossplane is a CNCF control plane that manages cloud infrastructure through Kubernetes APIs, reconciling declared resources continuously the way Kubernetes reconciles pods. v2.2 is a release aimed at00
