Ronak Nathani

At KubeCon this week—looking forward to seeing new and familiar faces in the hallway track! Come say if you’re around. 👋

From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform - Ahmet Alp Balkan & Ronak Nathani YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

@ahmet.dev and I shared our approach at #KubeConEU25 couple weeks ago with ~500 attendees (though the credit belongs to the entire team behind the platform). Great to see it resonate!

Watch here: youtu.be/dDkXFuy45EA?...

We abstract #Kubernetes to reduce cognitive load, delivering a seamless developer experience. Every component is carefully evaluated, often replaced with custom solutions to control our destiny—critical at our scale.

We don’t use Kubernetes in the traditional sense at LinkedIn—we treat it as a foundational building block for pod orchestration and tailored infrastructure APIs.

Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 249 - Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kuber...

This episode is a real treat- @ahmet.dev and @ronaknathani.bsky.social of @linkedin.com share lessons from running Kubernetes in production! Learn about the custom tools they've built for running Stateful workloads, how many clusters is the right number, & more!
kubernetespodcast.com/episode/249-...

Had a great time on @kubernetespodcast.com talking about how we are building our compute stack using Kubernetes @LinkedIn—managing hundreds of thousands of bare metal machines and running thousands of services at scale.

We do this with Temporal at LinkedIn. Seeing a lot of benefits over other workflow engines, specifically around reliability, idempotency and scalability.