KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025 | Kelsey Hightower, Akshay Ram & Eddie Villalba, Google

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Akshay Ram

Group Product Manager

Google

Eddie Villalba

Outbound Product Manager

Google

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer

Kubernetes Thought Pioneer

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Kelsey Hightower, Akshay Ram & Eddie Villalba, Google

Akshay Ram

Group Product Manager Google

Eddie Villalba

Outbound Product Manager Google

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer Kubernetes Thought Pioneer

In this KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America segment from Atlanta, theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson sits down with Google’s Akshay Ram, Kelsey Hightower and Eddie Villalba to explore how GKE is evolving to handle modern AI inference workloads. They break down GKE’s inference-focused innovations, from the Inference Gateway and GKE Inference Quickstart to new Kubernetes inference API primitives and CRDs that better handle unpredictable LLM request patterns, day-zero performance tuning and accelerator-aware load balancing. The discussion also touches on Google’s wo... Read more

Kelsey Hightower, Akshay Ram & Eddie Villalba, Google

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