“But what about reliability?” We heard this question 865 times when staring at 9% CPU utilization. Every time followed by a VM-era horror story or a revenue shield - "We bring in millions in revenue; we deserve idle resources for peace of mind”.

This session reveals 9 battle-tested Kubernetes-native strategies that took us from 9% to 50% utilization while IMPROVING reliability. The same directors who predicted “catastrophic failure” now champion optimization, panic-paging our team if costs regress.

Discover practical implementations and pitfalls, such as tuning workload limits, too many pods on nodes, API server pressure, reliable spot nodes, etc. You can selectively adopt and combine these strategies to build your own multi-dimensional cost optimization blueprint, precisely tailored to address the distinct challenges of your platform. Every technique uses open-source CNCF tools, because the most expensive infrastructure isn’t compute - it's fear.