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Mauricio Salatino

Mauricio Salatino

London, UK
Passionate about Open Source, Kubernetes, and the whole the Cloud Native space. Knative Steering Committee member, Knative Functions Working Group Co-Lead, Dapr Ambient Maintainer and contributor.
Sep
01

No more email notifications

I am moving my blog to GitHub pages, so no more email notifications. Keep an eye on LinkedIn for more updates on Platform Engineering, Developer Experience and Agentic Frameworks.
1 min read
Jun
08

Reacting to AI (reducing shadow AI practices)

Platform Engineering teams have inherited distributed multi-agent systems and they are struggling to support teams. Option paralysis is not something that these teams can afford now. Taming Shadow AI is the challenge of 2026.
11 min read
May
27

Five semantic conventions, one config property (Observing Spring AI with Arconia)

I don't think semantic convention fragmentation in the GenAI observability space is going away soon.
6 min read
Apr
20

🇪🇸Spring I/O 2026

Spring I/O 2026 in Barcelona brought AI, agentic patterns, and Spring 7.x/Boot 4.x to the forefront. Spring AI 2.0's native MCP support, maturing observability standards, and protocol convergence are reshaping how Java teams build intelligent systems.
5 min read
Apr
19

Manage and distribute skills with `skills-oci`

Manage and distribute agent skills with OCI-compliant images, enabling versioning, distribution, reuse of existing infrastructure, and leveraging the OCI ecosystem for signing, verifying provenance, and security scanning.
5 min read
Apr
07

New Beginnings, same principles, still pushing for Open Source and Open Standards

I am hyped to be joining Dash0 as an Ecosystem Engineer because OpenTelemetry is the foundation for understanding agentic systems.
2 min read
Mar
23

DevEx in the age of AI

TLTR: coding agents are replacing the tasks developers perform in their inner loops. What tools and practices can help you tame these agents to be more efficient and get the most out of these tools? What would it take to adopt these coding agents at scale in a secure and reliable way?
18 min read
Nov
18

The evolution of Platforms (GenAI edition)

With the rise of MCP, Agents, and prompt-based interactions, let's extend our platform APIs, which were built on top of Kubernetes APIs, with an LLM-based prompt approach. In this blog post, I will outline some ideas about the patterns I observe across various communities and vendors.
13 min read
Oct
13

Learnings from Cloud Native Denmark 🇩🇰 and Devoxx Belgium 🇧🇪 2025

The software industry is vibrant with the GenAI bubble, but the good thing is that all this movement promotes new ideas, new patterns, and new challenges that we will need to tackle in order to keep our software development and delivery practices updated and efficient.
6 min read
Jul
26

Developer Experience on Kubernetes

In November 2024, Thomas Vitale (author of Cloud Native Spring in Action, with Kubernetes) and I signed a contract with Manning Publishing to co-author a book on Developer Experience on Kubernetes.
2 min read