https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/tags/cloud Platform Engineer at Xebia, focused on AI platform engineering - the infrastructure behind reliable, observable, scalable AI and cloud-native workloads. I work primarily in Go and Google Cloud, with deep experience in Kubernetes, containers, and end-to-end observability - and a strong interest in networking and lower-level systems work in Rust. My current focus is the platform layer beneath AI: inference serving infrastructure on Kubernetes, AI gateway and MCP connectivity, agentic workload orchestration, and end-to-end observability for GenAI systems. My broader experience is full-stack: strong on backend, with solid frontend and mobile knowledge. I contribute to open source, write on my blog, and pick up the occasional talk, training, or meetup when something interesting comes up. I'm a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and a CNCF Ambassador. For a deeper dive, see my blog. If you're new to open source, check out Verto.sh. For mentorship, I'm on Mentorcruise. Outside of work, activities like photography, motorcycling, playing a handpan and cleaning litterboxes keep me occupied 🐈. en-us Luca Cavallin Luca Cavallin Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/platform-engineering-end-to-end https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/platform-engineering-end-to-end Platform engineering is more than DevOps with a portal. This post walks the full arc of the discipline end to end: why platforms exist, how to build and operate them, how to manage the messy stakeholder politics, and what success actually looks like. Grounded in Fournier and Nowland's book and a few years of doing this on real systems. Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin platform-engineeringdevopscloudinfrastructure https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/google-cloud-networking-101-the-comprehensive-tldr https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/google-cloud-networking-101-the-comprehensive-tldr A comprehensive but quick walkthrough of everything you need to know about GCP networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, Shared VPC, GKE networking, load balancing, Cloud NAT, hybrid connectivity, VPC Service Controls, DNS, packet inspection, and how to operate all of it. Written for engineers who need a solid mental model in 15 minutes. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin google-cloudnetworkingcloud https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-2021-cloud-engineering-panel-discussion https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-2021-cloud-engineering-panel-discussion Interactive panel discussion about the treats of being a cloud engineer, the developments and a guestimate about what the future holds, with Antoni Tzavelas and Jeroen Reijn. Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin cloudclub-cloudpodcast https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-google-cloud-engineer-associate-certification-exam https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-the-google-cloud-engineer-associate-certification-exam Obtaining your first Google Cloud certification can be a challenging experience. In this video I share my best tips to prepare for the "Associate Cloud Engineer" exam and the resources I used to pass the test last December. Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin google-cloudcertificationcloudpodcast https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/what-is-google-cloud-deploy https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/what-is-google-cloud-deploy Simplifying container-based app development on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Cloud Deploy. Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin kubernetesgoogle-cloudcicdcloudcncf https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-stories-news-from-around-the-cloud https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-stories-news-from-around-the-cloud The latest news from around the cloud: Club Cloud Stories #2 is here! Luca Cavallin & Jacco Kulman – joined by special guest Antoni Tzavelas (Google Cloud Course Creator and DevOps enthusiast) – are going to discuss: "CloudFormation: Quick Retry", "Google Cloud IoT Core 101", "Step Functions: Power Up", "What is GitOps?", "Inspect Traffic Between Subnets in a VPC", "Rust on CloudFlare Workers". Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin cloudclub-cloudcontainerspodcast https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-stories-first-episode-antoni-tzavelas-mark-van-holsteijn https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/club-cloud-stories-first-episode-antoni-tzavelas-mark-van-holsteijn In this first episode of Club Cloud Stories, hosts Luca Cavallin and Jacco Kulman welcome two guests: Antoni Tsavelas and Mark van Holsteijn. They discuss the latest cloud developments as well as a special reaper package to stop containers from running. Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin cloudclub-cloudcontainerspodcast https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/designing-serverless-applications-on-aws-jacco-kulman-luca-cavallin-end2end-live https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/designing-serverless-applications-on-aws-jacco-kulman-luca-cavallin-end2end-live Learn how to design serverless applications on the AWS platform from Jacco Kulman and Luca Cavallin. This session was hosted during the End2End Live conference in June 2021. Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin cloudpodcastawsserverless https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-to-use-terraform-workspaces-to-manage-environment-based-configuration https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-to-use-terraform-workspaces-to-manage-environment-based-configuration Find out how to make managing infrastructure in multiple environments easier with Terraform Workspaces, without using regular modules. Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin clouddevopsinfrastructureterraformcncf https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-i-prepared-for-the-google-cloud-associate-cloud-engineer-exam https://www.lucavallin.com/blog/how-i-prepared-for-the-google-cloud-associate-cloud-engineer-exam Learn from my personal experience in preparing and passing the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer exam, making it more accessible for you. Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT Luca Cavallin google-cloudcertificationcloud