CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

9:10am MST

The Power of Apache Pulsar. Harnessing Dapr to Build High Scale Messaging at FICO® - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G How to Grow Your Internal Backstage Community with Some Open-Sauce (Source) 🍝 - Djamaile Rahamat & Mitchell Hentges, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Confluent's Multi-Cloud Journey to Cilium: Pitfalls and Lessons Learned - Nimisha Mehta & Alvaro Aleman, Confluent Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B SkyRay: Seamlessly Extending KubeRay to Multi-Cluster Multi-Cloud Operation - Anne Holler, Elotl Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Bridging the DevOps to Data Divide with a Common Cloud Native Stack - Elad Hirsch, Terasky & Mey Beisaron, Forter Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

9:25am MST

Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey - Jared Watts, Upbound & Maximilian Blatt, Accenture Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

9:45am MST

Tales from the Crypt: Application Packaging and Delivery Nightmares - Scott Rigby, Helm Maintainer & Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Building Zero Trust with Envoy - Florin Coras & Pradheep Shrinivasan, Cisco Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

10:30am MST

Panel: Dynamic Configuration and Scaling of VPN Concentrator and Envoy SASE Proxy in Multi-Tenant Edge - Srinivasa Addepalli & Ritu Sood, Aryaka; Mrittika Ganguli & Jeff Shaw, Intel Corporation Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

10:40am MST

Applying CloudEvents to Level up Application Communications - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Evan Anderson, Stacklok Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Dog Food Delight: How Argo Workflows Eats Its Own CI - Denise Schannon, Loft Labs & Tim Collins, Pipekit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Backstage in the Board Room: What Makes a Digital Portal Helpful for C-Level Executives? - Olivier Liechti, Avalia Systems Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue: A Case Study - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Rajat Phull, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Cloud Native PostgreSQL - Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes - Peter Zaitsev, Coroot, FerretDB, Percona Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A When Things Go Sideways: Troubleshooting the OTel Operator - Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability & Reese Lee, New Relic Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Migrating to Open Feature at Scale: 0 to Billions - Chetan Kapoor & Justin Abrahms, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability - Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform? - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G Empowering LLMs with Backstage: Broader Insights Driven by the Developer Portal - Niall Thomson, Amazon Web Service Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H LLM Powered Agents with Kubernetes - Hema Veeradhi & Shrey Anand, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Perfect Match: Correlating Continuous Profiling with Distributed Tracing for Stronger Observability - Jonas Kunz & Christos Kalkanis, Elastic Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Experimentation Programs at Scale: Lessons Learned from Top Companies - Graham McNicoll, GrowthBook Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Costs of Feature Flags: Understanding and Managing Adoption Challenges - Shreya Shivratriwar, Software Engineer Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

11:50am MST

Building Real-World Applications with Dapr: A Startup Developer's Journey - Whit Waldo, Innovian Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G From Supercomputing to Serving: A Case Study Delivering Cloud Native Foundation Models - Autumn Moulder, Cohere Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Panel: Exploring eBPF Use Cases in Cloud-Native Security - Oshrat Nir, ARMO; Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent, now part of Cisco; Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador; Maya Singh, Microsoft; Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B

12:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Building a Scalable Multi-Protocol API Gateway with Envoy - Matt Poegel, Bloomberg LP Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C ⚡ Lightning Talk: Would a Gradual Rollout by Any Other Hashing Algorithm Still Smell as Sweet? - Chris Griffing, GitKraken Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

12:25pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Data Science Environments in Seconds: Scaling Jupyter Notebooks in Kubernetes - Jialin Zhang, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

12:30pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Charm++ on Kubernetes Cloud - Aditya Bhosale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

12:45pm MST

Panel: OpenTelemetry: Bridging Platform and Enablement - Daniel Gomez Blanco, Skyscanner; Ariel Valentin, GitHub; Hazel Weakly, Hachyderm; Suman Karumuri, Airbnb; Vijay Samuel, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

12:55pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: On-Premise and SaaS CI/CD Large-Scale Production Automation with Argo Services - Edgar Magana, Splunk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Progressive Infrastructure Delivery Using Kargo and Argo CD - Engin Diri, Pulumi Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

1:10pm MST

Space Age GitOps: Lifting off with Argo Promotions (Live Demo!) - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

1:30pm MST

Scaling Network Policy Enforcement Beyond the Cluster Boundary with Cilium - Hemanth Malla & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Observing the Future: Embracing OTEL in WebAssembly - Victor Adossi, Cosmonic Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

1:35pm MST

Accelerating Application Delivery with OpenTofu Controller and GitOps - Lucas Duarte & Tiago Reichert, AWS Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

1:40pm MST

GitOps Safety: Rendering Accurate ArgoCD Diffs Directly on Pull Requests - Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble & Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

2:05pm MST

Enhancing Asynchronous Communication Observability with OpenTelemetry - Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity - Hugo Smitter, FICO Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:10pm MST

Argonauts of Data: Building Scalable and Effective Data Pipelines - Satabrata Paul & Nishchith Shetty, Atlan Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Managing Application Dependencies in Argo CD - Christian Hernandez, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Confluent’s Service Mesh Journey - Building Security and Reliability One Sidecar at a Time! - Adam Sayah, Solo.io & Cody Ray, Confluent Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

2:40pm MST

Fake It to Make It! - TDD of gRPC Microservices - Ed Crewe, EnterpriseDB Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Live Migrating Production Clusters From Calico to Cilium - Moh Ahmed & Raymond Maika, SamsungAds Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Brag Your RAG with the MLOPS Swag - Madhav Sathe, Google & Jitender Kumar, publicissapient Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Build-Time Auto-Instrumentation in Android - Jason Plumb, Splunk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

2:45pm MST

Taming the Chaos: Fine-Grained RBAC in Argo CD for Incident Avoidance - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher & Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

3:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Security with Istio: Realtime JWT Access Revocation - Josh Oberdick, Rocket Companies Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

3:20pm MST

Why Does Continuous Profiling Matter to Developers? - Jonas Kunz, Elastic & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Tuning Argo Rollouts for Thousands of Workloads - Carlos Sanchez & Roxana Balasoiu, Adobe Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B DevEx and Productivity Metrics on Backstage - Do's and Don'ts - Yishai Beeri, LinearB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Hubble Beyond Cilium - Anubhab Majumdar & Mathew Merrick, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Reproducible AI with Kubeflow, lakeFS and Langchain - Oz Katz, Treeverse Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Unlock the Full Potential of Generative AI via Microservices and Istio Service Mesh - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Iris Ding, Intel Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Turn the Volume Down on Noisy Neighbors! - Sándor Guba, Axoflow Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Enabling OpenTofu for the Enterprise - Jordan Argueta and Douglas Flagg, Fidelity Investments Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

3:55pm MST

Bridge the Gap Between Terraform and GitOps - Junze Bao & Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Lessons Learned Migrating to Modern Multi-Platform eBPF Programs - Dave Tucker, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B How We Streamlined Our SDLC with Observability - from GitHUB via Jenkins, Harbor, Argo to K8S - Michael Gläss & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B If You Build It, They Will Come - a Platform Modernization Journey - Ken Heaslip & Chloe Clarke, Canada Life Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

4:15pm MST

ArgoCD: Lessons in Spinning Out OSS from Intuit to Independence - Jesse Suen & Hong Wang, Akuity Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

4:30pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Vote on Your Favorite--Standardize This!--10 PromQL Queries That Measure CPU & Memory Usage - Sarah Hudspeth, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Build a ChatGPT RAG Data Pipeline with RisingWave Stream Processor and Vector Store - Mary Grygleski, Callibrity & Rayees Pasha, RisingWave Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Stop Deploying Blind! Using Observability and Argo Rollouts to Light the Way - Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD IDPs For The Rest of Us: Maximizing Impact When You Aren't a Tech Giant - Eric Irwin, Quantum Metric Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Incremental GPU Slicing in Action - Abhishek Malvankar & Olivier Tardieu, IBM Research Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A From Sensors to Servers: Efficient Edge Computing with Akri and WebAssembly - Kate Goldenring, Fermyon & Yu Jin Kim, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Enabling Intelligent Observability Volume Management - Priyanka Naik, IBM & Vaishnavi Hire, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

4:40pm MST

Policy-as-Code for Infrastructure-as-Code with OPA and OpenTofu - Colin Lacy, Cisco Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

4:45pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Deep Dive: How Fluent Bit Collects File Logs - Braydon Kains, Google Cloud Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Don't Get Blown up! Avoiding Configuration Gotchas for Tetragon Newbies - Pratik Lotia, Reddit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Transform Your Kubernetes Cluster Into a GenAI Platform: Get Ready-to-Use LLM APIs Today! - Kenji Kaneda, CloudNatix Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Is OpenTelemetry Too Complicated to Get Started? - Pranay Prateek, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

5:10pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing Multi-Cluster Communication and Cost Efficiency with Admiral and Istio - Punakshi Chaand, Intuit Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How GitOps Changes Identity and RBAC Management - Alice Jones, Liatrio Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD ⚡ Lightning Talk: Applying Cilium at Edge with KubeEdge - Tomoya Fujita, Sony Corporation of America Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Cost Saving Strategies for Interactive AI Development - Shravan Achar, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Merge Conflict - Conflict: Apply-Before-Merge vs. Traditional Continuous Deployment - Asaf Blubshtein, env0 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D