It's been a little over a week since I walked out of Nutanix HQ in San Jose after two days at the invite-only Nutanix Tech Connect 2026. I'll admit it, I was a little too excited for this one. Think first day of school energy: backpack packed, lunchbox ready, and a fresh notebook I fully intended to fill. I did not …

I passed the Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Native exam this past week. But that test wasn't a finish line. It's the starting point of what I'm treating as a yearlong journey. Getting here meant many hours deep in my lab, building and rebuilding clusters, deploying NKP over and over until the pieces finally …