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Cloud Native, Data & AI Architects. ☁️ Simplifying cloud automation, deployment, and operations for the modern enterprise. Based in Munich. Read our latest technical insights: apefactory.com

Your security team spent 5 years locking down API gateways and mTLS—then your product team plugged an autonomous LLM into production. You built a text-driven RCE vector with enterprise support. How agentic AI actually breaks & how to fix it with open source: https://loom.ly/yFYc8nU

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Stop telling people eBPF makes proxies obsolete. If you're running the Gateway API on Cilium, Understanding where eBPF stops and Envoy starts is the difference between architectural sanity and a 3 AM outage. Read the full L7 runtime breakdown: apefactory.com/en/insights/cilium-gateway-api-reality

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Why migrate to the K8s Gateway API? Because it builds the exact foundation needed for the next frontier: AI traffic. Part 5 explores how to elevate your gateway to govern LLMs, MCP servers, and autonomous multi-agent architectures using agentgateway. Read it here 👇 https://loom.ly/5hPRrP8

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The K8s Gateway API standard is fantastic, but which engine should actually process your packets? Envoy? Cilium? Traefik? Kong? Part 4 of our series cuts through the vendor marketing fluff to compare data planes, performance, and maturity. Read our comparison 👇 https://loom.ly/j3z1eLA

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Moving to K8s Gateway API means reimagining edge security. No more copy-pasting TLS certs across namespaces or burying configs in NGINX annotations. Part 2 of our series walks through setting up automated, free SSL using cert-manager natively. Read it here 👇 https://loom.ly/7sjo0tQ

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Theories are great, but how do you actually move off ingress-nginx without breaking production? Part 3 of our series is a hands-on blueprint. We use the ingress2gateway tool to automatically translate legacy manifests into clean Gateway API code. Read the guide 👇 https://loom.ly/gkWtAxw

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Welcome to ape factory. 🦍 We architect scalable solutions for Cloud-Native, Data, and AI. Need to optimize your platform or tackle AI governance? We're here to help. Drop your biggest infrastructure bottlenecks below! 👇 🌐 apefactory.com

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For a decade, ingress-nginx was the K8s workhorse. But complex gRPC streams, canaries, and AI agent traffic hit a wall: "Annotation Hell." The post-Ingress era is here. The Kubernetes Gateway API redesigns traffic by decoupling roles. Read Part 1 of our guide 👇 https://loom.ly/6r4UV8c

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True digital sovereignty isn’t about building the biggest data center. It’s about having a viable exit strategy and leveraging open standards to avoid vendor lock-in. I wrote about why the EU's €180M "illusion" is actually an architectural masterstroke. Check it out https://loom.ly/C6Iu8IQ

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How dangerous is your AI? 🤖 And are you aware of when you're utilizing it? 🔎 We're breaking down the myths of the "bureaucratic nightmare" surrounding the EU AI Act. It’s not a burden; it’s the guide that the industry requires. 🏎️ Read more: https://loom.ly/QEjXqjo

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We just spent some serious time with Anthropic’s Claude Code. It’s a game-changer for prototypes, but it’s not without its "AI hallucinations." AI assistants are like high-energy junior developers. They need someone with experience in the driver's seat. Read more: https://loom.ly/_hXoFek

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We have been analyzing the recent modifications in Helm and have published a blog post outlining the noteworthy aspects we've observed at ape factory. 👉 For a comprehensive analysis and our insights on these changes, please refer to our earlier blog post: https://loom.ly/u2zCsnM

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Will 2026 be the year of Cloud Geopatriation? Many European businesses are starting to ask: "Is our data truly safe and sovereign?" . Read our latest insight on how the EU is tripling its data center capacity and what "digital sovereignty" actually means. https://loom.ly/X2Nu1fI

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Enforcing guardrails in a small cluster is easy but once you’re managing massive scale across multiple environments, that simple choice between policy engines becomes a decision for your foundation. Check out the full breakdown and our "2 AM Sanity Checklist": https://loom.ly/IzMiD5Y

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