#137 The hidden performance tax you're paying on every cloud deployment

#137 The hidden performance tax you're paying on every cloud deployment

June 23, 2026 · 42 min · Season 4 · Episode 12

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The episode discusses the performance tax of cloud deployments and the role of AI in database tuning with Luigi Nardi.

In this episode, Ronald and Jan sit down with Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DB tune, at KubeCon. Luigi brings a rare mix of academic depth (PhD in computer science, postdocs at Imperial College London and Stanford, professor at Lund University) and startup pragmatism. The conversation digs into why database tuning is fundamentally a combinatorial optimization problem that humans aren't wired to solve well, and why AI is uniquely suited for it. DB tune focuses entirely on Postgres and deplo...

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