#99 The Hidden Cost of Doing Nothing: Hunting Cloud Zombies

In this episode, we speak with Holly Cummins, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, recorded live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in London. With a background in quantum physics and years of experience in enterprise software, Holly has a unique talent for making complex topics easy to understand. We discuss her talk “Zombie Hunting for Kubernetes Users,” where she highlights servers and workloads that quietly consume energy while doing no useful work. Holly explains that waste in our infra...