Dive into the intricacies of Kubernetes API machinery in this 30-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022. Explore Server Side Apply and its implementation in client-go and other clients, as well as extensibility using CRDs and Webhooks. Learn about the deprecation of v1beta1 and related issues. Gain insights into the SIG API Machinery structure, coverage areas, regular meetings, and how to become a contributor. Discover key concepts such as Priority Fairness, Rule-Based Flow Scheme API, Cubelet Healthcheck, Priority Inversion and its solutions, Server Concurrency Limit, Priority Level, and the cost of request retry. Presented by experts from Red Hat and Google, this talk offers valuable knowledge for developers and end-users of Kubernetes and other CNCF-hosted projects.