Graziano Casto

CORE

Developer Relations Engineer at Akamas

Company website: https://akamas.io

Milan, IT

Joined Nov 2024

https://www.castograziano.com/

About

I'm a DevRel Engineer at Akamas, where I spend my days convincing computers to stop being lazy and start being efficient. A former distributed systems developer and product manager, I'm now on a mission to optimize the entire cloud-native universe, one Pod at a time. As a Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG DevEx and a member of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.34, I balance my deep infrastructure roots with a passion for developer happiness. Obsessed with AI, Platform Engineering, and saving the planet through better code, I'm basically trying to make the cloud faster, greener, and significantly less annoying for everyone.

Open Source Projects

Open Source Projects

Kubernetes

Mar 2025 - Current

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications.

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Architecting an Embedded Efficiency Layer: A Platform Deep Dive into Day-Two Operational Tuning

Learn how platform teams can embed continuous optimization into internal developer platforms using GitOps, HITL workflows, and full-stack tuning.

May 26, 2026

· 1,978 Views · 1 Like

Observability on the Edge With OTel and FluentBit

Master edge observability with OTel and Fluent Bit, leveraging tail sampling, persistent queues, and footprint optimization.

April 23, 2026

· 2,689 Views

The Ephemeral Cloud: A New Blueprint for Infrastructure Efficiency With Crossplane and kube-green

Use Crossplane and kube-green to replace wasteful, always-on cloud environments with on-demand, ephemeral ones, dramatically cutting costs and environmental impact.

August 25, 2025

· 1,755 Views · 1 Like

WebAssembly: From Browser Plugin to the Next Universal Runtime

Wasm evolved from a browser booster to a universal runtime. The Component Model promises a future of truly composable blocks reshaping our conception of software.

August 4, 2025

· 3,496 Views · 3 Likes

AI-Native Platforms: The Unstoppable Alliance of GenAI and Platform Engineering

The future of software development involves an AI-powered DevEx. This marks the end of static platforms and the dawn of an intelligent era.

June 11, 2025

· 2,899 Views · 2 Likes

Cognitive Architecture: How LLMs Are Changing the Way We Build Software

LLMs are transforming software design by enabling cognitive, agent-driven systems that reason and act, moving beyond traditional, rigid architectures.

June 11, 2025

· 2,510 Views · 2 Likes

Java’s Next Act: Native Speed for a Cloud-Native World

The Graal Stack reinvents Java for the cloud era, combining GraalVM, Micronaut and GraalOS to deliver ultra-fast, lightweight, and serverless-ready applications.

April 30, 2025

· 8,092 Views · 7 Likes

Breaking the Context Barrier of LLMs: InfiniRetri vs RAG

InfiniRetri retrieves information internally using LLM attention, while RAG retrieves it externally. The future may lie in hybrid approaches combining both strengths.

March 27, 2025

· 2,379 Views · 1 Like

AI Agents: Future of Automation or Overhyped Buzzword?

AI Agents perceive, decide, and act independently, continuously learning and adapting to automate complex tasks with minimal human intervention.

February 20, 2025

· 4,575 Views · 2 Likes

The Energy Efficiency of JVMs and the Role of GraalVM

Exploring the JVM ecosystem reveals a strong correlation between energy efficiency and code performance, with GraalVM as a top-tier runtime for optimizing both.

January 29, 2025

· 7,148 Views · 4 Likes

O11y Guide: Finding Observability and DevEx Tranquility With Platform Engineering

This guide explores how to avoid drowning in the sea of monitoring data to instead understand how to provide insights while using only what is needed.

January 7, 2025

· 3,602 Views · 6 Likes

Trend Reports

Trend Report

Platform Engineering and DevOps

Platform engineering and DevOps are merging as organizations scale, modernize, and push to reduce cognitive load across increasingly complex systems. What began as fragmented internal tooling has evolved into Platform-as-a-Product thinking, where internal developer platforms (IDPs), automation pipelines, and golden paths provide the backbone of modern DevOps workflows. Platform teams, DevOps engineers, security teams, and SREs are now working together to deliver consistent, secure, and self-service experiences that improve developer productivity and satisfaction and reinforce operational reliability.This report examines how platform engineering is reshaping DevOps by standardizing environments, unifying toolchains, and shifting repetitive tasks into automated workflows. We explore how teams are implementing developer experience (DevEx) metrics, rethinking CI/CD pipelines, and leveraging AI-driven automation to optimize infrastructure performance and enhance delivery velocity. As enterprises link platform health to business outcomes, measuring ROI and platform adoption is becoming a core initiative.