DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling Find Your K8s Happy Path with RawKode Academy
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Jan 23, 2026 
David Flanagan (RawKode), cloud native educator and creator of RawKode Academy, introduces an opinionated Tech Matrix to cut through CNCF decision fatigue. He walks through matrix design, advocate picks like Linkerd, Cilium, Flux and WebAssembly, UI modes, and how teams and learners can use opinionated guidance to choose technologies.
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169 Projects Placed In Skip
- David marked 169 CNCF projects as 'skip' because they don't fit his stack or current needs.
- Skip doesn't mean bad; it means not personally relevant right now.
Standardize Events With CloudEvents
- Adopt CloudEvents for consistent event envelopes across brokers and languages.
- Add CloudEvents libraries to your projects to avoid semantic mismatch and reduce bugs.
Use CUE For Config Validation
- Learn CUE to simplify configuration and validation workflows in CI/CD and infra.
- Use CUE where it reduces complexity rather than inventing custom schemas.