Let services/apps live where they make sense. Let teams own their clusters. Let the gateway handle all of them. That's the promise of multi-cluster networking. And for most teams, it's also where things start to get VERY painful. The Problem We Keep Solving the Wrong Way I've had this conversation with enough platform engineering teams to recognize the pattern. They start with one cluster. Clean, manageable. Then a second cluster appears maybe it's a different region, a different cloud prov

What happens when 700 t-shirts disappear in hours, your voice slowly gives out, and you end up walking what feels like a hall of fame of cloud native legends? KubeCon Amsterdam, that's what. Day 0: Arrival Made it to Amsterdam. The "I am Amsterdam" sign outside the RAI convention center is iconic, and standing in front of it felt like a proper welcome to the city and to the week ahead. I was there to $git it done with the Traefik Labs team, and none of that happens without the kind of suppor

Introduction Organizations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) often need to expose their integrations to external consumers while maintaining robust security. In this post, we'll explore how to deploy Traefik Hub as an API Gateway on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to provide enterprise-grade security for OIC APIs. This architecture enables: * JWT validation for external client authentication via Oracle Identity Domains (IDCS) * OAuth2.0 flow for secure backend communication with OIC * Pa

Routing often needs to be more than just simple path matching. You might need to route a specific user to a particular version of a service, or perform identity-based canary releases. This post covers how to use Traefik Hub's Multi-Layer Routing with Entra ID (OIDC) to build a dynamic, claim-based routing system. The Goal: Context-Aware Routing The objective is to decouple authentication logic from granular service routing. We want a central point for identity verification, but with the abili

I had the cool experience of attending the Oracle AI World Tour along with Marta Tolosa. Thanks a lot for the hosting! The event brought together Oracle's top leadership, industry partners, and customers to showcase how AI is transforming enterprise technology. Opening Keynote: Mike Sicilia, CEO of Oracle The event kicked off with a keynote from Mike Sicilia, CEO of Oracle. Having the opportunity to hear directly from Oracle's CEO about the company's vision for AI-powered enterprise solutions

Your OpenTelemetry traces tell you a story ! Traces are like a book, with spans as chapters, each telling part of your request’s story 👇. Our customers and prospects use it to unify and automate telemetry data collection in distributed systems. Easy to integrate and avoid vendor lock-in! What are the biggest pains that OpenTelemetry solves? 1️ Unified Instrumentation: Streamlines observability in distributed systems. Without unified instrumentation, managing disparate tools can lead to frag

Let services take a breathe, developers focus in business logic and API gateway do the heavy lifting... This is the phrase I repeat most often to prospects. Why overload APIs? Offload to the gateway. Every time I hear teams debate if to build authentication, rate limiting, versioning, or monitoring directly into their services, I ask: -What if your services could focus strictly on business logic? -What if duplication, operational drift, and performance headaches could be gone? Gateway offloa

The Problem with "Easy" Website Builders For years, my father-in-law's architecture firm TENUR Arquitectura ran its website on a popular drag-and-drop platform. Nice templates, SSL included. Set-it-and-forget-it simple. But nobody tells you you're paying a premium for simplicity you might not need. These services cost €25/month for a business site. That's €300/year. For a portfolio that gets a few hundred visitors a month and barely changes. The site was basic: * Homepage with company info

When I was 12 years old (1998), my English wasn't very good, so my parents sent me to Kingsley Pines Camp in the US with local kids to improve my English. It was my first time on a plane and my first time visiting another country. That decision from my parents was one of the best things they could have done for me. Strategically, it was an investment in me that has paid off many times over and helped shape who I am today. After coming back home, I found out I had been named the most communicati