The thing that finally broke me was a Renovate PR that bumped a single Helm chart version and produced eleven Terraform plan comments on a GitHub PR. Each one a wall of +, -, and ~ lines wider than a 14" laptop. Eleven, because we have 37 Terraform projects and 11 of them transitively depend on that chart. Technically the plan was correct. Practically, nobody on the team was going to read that. ...
KubeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam is my fourth KubeCon. You’d think by now I’d have the schedule planning thing figured out. I don’t. Every time it’s the same story: hours lost on sched.com, tab overload, a half-finished spreadsheet, and the nagging feeling that I’ve missed something good. This time I decided to let AI do the heavy lifting — and the result was a searchable web app, a curated recommendation schedule, and an on-the-go assistant I can query from my phone during the conference itself. ...