Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How do Red Hat Learning Subscriptions transform an engineering career? Discover how Firas Benbelgacem earned 12 certifications to become the 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.
Switching from radio engineering to system engineering without a formal IT background can feel daunting. Firas Benbelgacem used flexible learning and hands-on practice labs to master Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Learn how continuous learning elevates both individual careers and team efficiency across cloud environments.
Timestamps:
00:00 Journey from Tunisia to France
00:47 Transitioning to system engineering
01:05 Flexible training with Red Hat Learning Subscription
01:51 Driving Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster efficiency
02:44 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year
Resources:🎓 Explore Red Hat Learning Subscription options → redhat.com/en/services/training-and-certification 📜 Discover Red Hat Certification paths → redhat.com/en/services/certification 🚀 Learn about Red Hat OpenShift → redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift
How do Red Hat Learning Subscriptions transform an engineering career? Discover how Firas Benbelgacem earned 12 certifications to become the 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year.
Switching from radio engineering to system engineering without a formal IT background can feel daunting. Firas Benbelgacem used flexible learning and hands-on practice labs to master Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Learn how continuous learning elevates both individual careers and team efficiency across cloud environments.
Timestamps:
00:00 Journey from Tunisia to France
00:47 Transitioning to system engineering
01:05 Flexible training with Red Hat Learning Subscription
01:51 Driving Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster efficiency
02:44 2026 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year
Resources:🎓 Explore Red Hat Learning Subscription options → redhat.com/en/services/training-and-certification 📜 Discover Red Hat Certification paths → redhat.com/en/services/certification 🚀 Learn about Red Hat OpenShift → redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift
![[vLLM Office Hours #52] - vLLM Semantic Router: Safer, Faster, Multi-Model Inference - June 25, 2026](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QoHlqjSkNoo/mqdefault.jpg "[vLLM Office Hours #52] - vLLM Semantic Router: Safer, Faster, Multi-Model Inference - June 25, 2026
Welcome to vLLM office hours! These bi-weekly sessions are your chance to stay current with the vLLM ecosystem, ask questions, and hear directly from contributors and power users.
This weeks special topics: vLLM Semantic Router: Intelligent Routing for Safer, Faster, Multi-Model Inference, plus a first look at the new vLLM course on DeepLearning.AI.
We cover the latest vLLM project updates, including the v0.23 release (DeepSeek V4 hardening with TRT-LLM-gen attention kernels and EPLB for MoE, Model Runner V2 expanding to more models, FlashInfer sampler integration, unified Gemma 4 multimodal support with native MTP, new model support for Step 3.7 Flash, Cosmos 3 Reasoner, Granite Speech Plus, and JetBrains Mellum, pipeline parallelism optimizations, AMD RDNA3 quantization kernels, multi-tier KV cache offloading to disk and remote storage, ongoing Rust frontend work, a unified reasoning/tool-call parser interface, and async EPLB by default), plus community highlights on Minimax M3, Poolside Laguna M.1, GLM-5.2, and Prime Intellects RL at 1T Scale blog.
We also share a first look at the new, free vLLM course on Andrew Ngs DeepLearning.AI platform, with developer advocate Cedric Clyburn.
Then we dive into vLLM Semantic Router with Christopher Nuland, Chief AI Architect at Red Hat AI: how signal-driven routing works across cost, latency, privacy, safety, and modality; using confidence scores and anchor tuning to improve routing accuracy; combining semantic routing with PII redaction and guardrails to protect sensitive data; pairing it with llm-d for prefix-aware caching; its new upstream integration into Agent Gateway; and a live home-lab demo.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hqDA046cxyMbV_x8UX472xK9x3WsIn8c9513kulec_Y/
Want to join the discussion live on Google Meet? Get a calendar invite by filling out this form: https://red.ht/office-hours
Timestamps:
00:00 vLLM intro
01:12 vLLM v0.23 project update
21:24 New vLLM course on DeepLearning.AI
26:03 vLLM Semantic Router deep dive, with live demo
54:03 Q&A")
