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Tuesday, November 12
 

9:00am MST

Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Paula Kennedy & Stacey Potter, Event Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; previous roles include Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. With 20+ years experience in IT, Paula champions community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of... Read More →
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Stacey Potter

Open Source Community Manager, Stacklok
Stacey is an  Open Source Community Manager at Stackok. Stacey has been in the cloud native community since 2019 when she joined Weaveworks and worked as a Community Manager on various Open Source projects, including Flux. She currently participates in the GitOps Working Group... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

9:10am MST

Platform Working Group Update - Atulpriya Sharma with Abby Bangser & Colin Griffin, Platform Working Group Leads
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:20am MST
Speakers
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Colin Griffin

CEO, Krumware
Colin Griffin is CEO at Krumware, and a Co-Chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group. Colin Griffin is a software engineer by trade, specializing in cloud-native application and infrastructure development; with an emphasis on developer enablement and platform engineering. He founded... Read More →
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Atulpriya Sharma

Co-Chair Platforms-WG, TAG - App Delivery | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Manual tester turned developer advocate focusing on open source, cloud native technologies. I help organizations and their developers adopt related technologies by creating helpful and impactful content. My current interest areas at Platform Engineering and AIOps. I'm also a CNCF... Read More →
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Abby Bangser

Principal Engineer, Syntasso
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

9:25am MST

Navigating the No-Code to Full-Code Spectrum - a Platform Engineering Journey - Jared Watts, Upbound & Maximilian Blatt, Accenture
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:25am - 9:50am MST
YAML is prolific in the Kubernetes ecosystem as it is the language of choice to express intent in a declarative manner. As more companies build internal developer platforms (IDPs) on Kubernetes, many have found that building for enterprise needs can reach a level of complexity of hundreds of thousands of “declarative” lines, resulting in a platform that is challenging to maintain. But we don’t have to rely solely on a no-code approach to build our platforms - there is an entire spectrum from no-code to full-code available to us. In this talk, we will explore this spectrum in depth through the lens of a platform team’s journey to build an enterprise grade infrastructure control plane on Kubernetes with Crossplane. We will share all the lessons learned starting from declarative no-code and then evolving over time to a full-code approach using Golang, as well as how this journey had a major impact on their developer experience, testing, operations, stability, and more.
Speakers
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Maximilian Blatt

Cloud Advisory Consultant, Accenture
Maximilian Blatt is a Crossplane expert, platform engineer and consultant at Accenture Germany. He has mutliple years of experience working with Crossplane, Kubernetes and is maintainer of several Crossplane-related open-source projects.
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Jared Watts

Founding Engineer, Upbound
Jared Watts is a Founding Engineer at Upbound, where he is working on advancing cloud-native computing by enabling anyone to build their own cloud platform. He is also a co-creator of the open source Crossplane (https://crossplane.io) and Rook (https://rook.io) projects. Prior to... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:25am - 9:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Promoting Common Standards Without Sacrificing Tenant Autonomy - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:55am - 10:00am MST
Platform engineering aims for creating golden paths and common standards across the organization but in many cases, an organization needs pioneers who push the boundaries of today's practices and investigate the unbeaten paths in order to drive innovation. With this in mind, it's important for platform builders to think about how they can create common standards without sacrificing the autonomy engineers need in order to innovate.
Speakers
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Lukas Gentele

CEO, Loft Labs
Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Aussie Broadband, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:55am - 10:00am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Make Workloads, Not Infrastructure - Will Stewart, Northflank
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:05am - 10:10am MST
Developers often find themselves bogged down by configuring infrastructure and deploying clusters rather than focusing on their primary goal—delivering valuable workloads. This talk explores shifting the focus to configuring and deploying workloads rather than infrastructure.

By redirecting focus to workloads, developers can abstract away the complexities of the underlying infrastructure, allowing them to concentrate on writing code and building features. It also improves consistency and reliability, as workloads are deployed using standardized processes and best practices encoded within the platform.

This shift not only enhances productivity but also accelerates time-to-market by streamlining the development process. In a self-service way, developers can specify their requirements and let the platform handle the intricacies of resource provisioning, scaling, and maintenance. The talk will contrast a workload platform with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and explore how it enables “golden paths” to production for applications, databases, and jobs.

Additionally, focusing on workloads aligns better with business objectives, as it emphasizes delivering functional value rather than managing technical details. This talk will explore practical strategies for implementing this shift with Kubernetes, provide examples for facilitating workload-centric operations, and demonstrate how this abstraction enables consistency and portability across clouds.

Ultimately, adopting a workload-centric approach helps developers deliver better applications more efficiently and minimizes infrastructure toil within engineering teams.
Speakers
avatar for Will Stewart

Will Stewart

Co-Founder and CEO, Northflank
Will is Co-founder & CEO of Northflank.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:05am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducing a Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Data Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
In the world of cloud compute multi-cloud architectures are dependent on leveraging Kubernetes as an abstraction layer for running containers across cloud compute providers.

What happens however in the world of AI native applications? Just as in the world of cloud compute we need Kubernetes as an abstraction layer to run containerized AI models across GPU providers in conjunction with running containerized application logic across CPU providers.

A new serverless cloud compute platform is needed for building and running AI native applications on Kubernetes to support portability of code and models, freedom, flexibility and choice across.
Speakers
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Nathan Goulding

Senior Vice President, Engineering, Vultr
Nathan Goulding is an entrepreneurial-minded, product-focused technical leader with over 20 years of infrastructure, platform, and software as-a-service experience. As SVP, Engineering at Vultr, Nathan leads the engineering and technical product management teams. Prior to Vultr, Nathan... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Application Networking is Broken - Platform Engineering to the Rescue! - Sanjeev Gupta, IBM
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
For too long, traditional networking approaches have shackled innovation, hindering the pace of modern application development. Even touted solutions like CNI merely patch holes in a fundamentally flawed paradigm. It's time to shatter these limitations and unlock the true potential of "location-less" applications that can run across any topology.

Layer 7 application networking offers a bold new frontier, empowering platform engineering to enable developers through an entirely new paradigm of self-service networking. Developers can provision application connectivity across all environments in minutes, within identity-based access control and policy guardrails. Intelligent traffic management can also optimize performance, eliminating the bottlenecks that plague traditional networks.

But will you seize this opportunity to revolutionize networking? Join this session to confront the harsh realities of traditional networking approaches, explore the untapped potential of Layer 7 networking, and recognize the critical role platform engineers play in driving adoption and innovation.
Speakers
avatar for Sanjeev Gupta

Sanjeev Gupta

Software Networking Lead, IBM
Sanjeev is a software engineering, product management, and business development leader helping IBM develop products, launch and scale technologies that solve the most complex problems facing customers across Cloud, On-Premises and Edge computing environments. Checkout his new book... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

10:30am MST

AM Break 3
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:30am - 10:40am MST
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:30am - 10:40am MST

10:40am MST

Portals and Platforms, Two Ps in a Pod? How Good Interfaces Make for Good Operability - Jorge Lainfiesta, Rootly & Abby Bangser, Syntasso
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Platforms aren’t new, but intentional platform engineering is getting more widespread adoption. One area where organisations are investing heavily is the relationship between the “frontend” user interfaces that developers get value from (CLIs, portals, APIs) and the "backend" platform orchestration components that ops manage. What should you, as a platform engineer, expect from your investments on each side? Over time, maintaining a portal and your platform orchestration becomes an important cost. But don't fret! Your platform can (and should) manage this ongoing maintenance for you, allowing you to focus on what you care about: improving developer experience and extending platform capabilities. In this talk, Abby and Jorge will provide an overview of the challenges and solutions, and map this topic to the CNCF Platform Engineering Maturity Model. You will learn what you, as a platform engineer, should be demanding of your platform orchestration tooling and your portal.
Speakers
avatar for Abby Bangser

Abby Bangser

Principal Engineer, Syntasso
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
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Jorge Lainfiesta

Reliability Advocate, Rootly
Jorge is the author of the Linux Foundation Introduction to Backstage (LFS142) course and reliability advocate. He has a background in software engineering (ex-PayPal) and digital communication (UCLA). He's also a certified sommelier (CETT Barcelona).
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Really Ready to Adopt a Platform? - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am MST
Everyone is talking about platforms and why not, they bring in a lot of benefits when it comes to agility and flexibility to your software development process. But are you really ready to adopt a platform? Implementing a platform isn't just about the tools, tech and integrations. There are people, processes and culture involved too. This talk will focus on organization readiness and present you with a checklist that'll help you check your preparedness to adopt a platform. Throughout the checklist, we'll focus on all the critical aspects right from identifying key stakeholders, investments, implementation and other critical processes that are linked to the successful adoption of your platform. The checklist will lead you to the Platform maturity model that will further help you evolve and mature your platform over time. So, are you really ready to adopt a platform? Join in to find the answer.
Speakers
avatar for Atulpriya Sharma

Atulpriya Sharma

Co-Chair Platforms-WG, TAG - App Delivery | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Manual tester turned developer advocate focusing on open source, cloud native technologies. I help organizations and their developers adopt related technologies by creating helpful and impactful content. My current interest areas at Platform Engineering and AIOps. I'm also a CNCF... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:30am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Discipline: Marketing Secrets for Engineering Platforms - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:30am - 11:40am MST
The success of an internal engineering platform requires more than technical excellence and good product management. You also have to be a marketer. Yes, I know, it is yet another discipline to master, but a little bit of knowledge can take you a long way. You, the platform leaders, are operating in a challenging market. Your buyers—your fellow engineers—have limited currency and too many things to spend it on. Their currency is their time. In this lightning talk, I'll share three crucial marketing lessons I learned the hard way to drive internal adoption: building a movement, leveraging the loyalty loop, and being aware of value-based pricing. Through these lessons, you'll learn how to market your platform internally, driving adoption and maintaining usage to unlock its full potential for your organization. Join me to explore these strategies and become not just a platform leader but a platform marketer.
Speakers
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Erica Hughberg

Community Advocate & Educator, Tetrate
Erica is passionate about the arrow between the two boxes in the architecture diagram. How do we make that arrow easy to establish securely? And how can we observe and operate it? After over ten years in FinTech, primarily leading API Platform strategy and engineering teams, Erica... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:30am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

11:40am MST

Lunch Break 1
Food and Beverage stations located in Salt Palace Hall C, Level 1. Seating is available in the Grand Ballroom and Hall D. 
Food and Beverage stations located in Salt Palace Upper Mezzanine, Level 2. Attendees can use the escalators and stairs to find seating on Level 1 in Room 155.
Food and Beverage stations and seating located at the Hyatt Recency in Salt Lake Ballroom C, Level 2.

Pre-confirmed Halal or Kosher meals will be available in Hall D.

12:45pm MST

Panel: Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering - Mallory Haigh, Humanitec; Nathen Harvey, Google Cloud; Kirk Hoganson, BambooHR; Heather Joslyn, The New Stack; Guillaume Caya Letourneau, Workleap
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:45pm - 1:20pm MST
In times of limited budgets and tech organizations aiming to gain efficiency and cut costs, showing the positive impact of platform engineering from the start is crucial. However, as platform engineering is still in the early stages, there is a lack of clarity on what to measure, how to measure, and how to present results to other stakeholders and budget holders. In this panel, thought leaders and practitioners will discuss the goals organizations aim to achieve with platform engineering, how to define success criteria and transform them into measurable metrics, and the relationships between different kinds of indicators, such as leading vs. lagging indicators, depending on the context. Join this discussion with Nathen Harvey (DORA, Google), Mallory Haigh (Humanitec), Kirk Hoganson (BambooHR) and Guillaume Caya-Letourneau (Workleap) moderated by Heather Joslyn (The Newstack - TNS).
Speakers
avatar for Mallory Haigh

Mallory Haigh

Director of Customer Success, Humanitec
Mallory is Humanitec's Director of Customer Success with a background in customer support and success, full-stack software engineering, engineering management, and the intersection of humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to human-computer... Read More →
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Nathen Harvey

DORA Lead, Google Cloud
Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer, leads the DORA team at Google Cloud. DORA's work enables teams and organizations to thrive by delivering industry-shaping, accessible, and actionable research. Nathen has learned and shared lessons from some incredible organizations, teams... Read More →
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Kirk Hoganson

Cloud Architect, BambooHR
Kirk is the Cloud Architect for BambooHR focused on container based infrastructure for SAAS. He hacked his first dial-up BBS when he was a child and has been finding ways to bend technology to his will since then. He can be found cooking, eating, or traveling to eat until he misses... Read More →
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Heather Joslyn

Editor-in-chief, The New Stack
Since November 2023, Heather has been the editor-in-chief of The New Stack, an online technology publication that explains and analyzes at-scale software development and management. She’s been at TNS since 2021. A lifelong journalist, she has held roles previously at Container Solutions... Read More →
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Guillaume Caya Letourneau

Developer, Workleap
Guillaume is one of the founding developers of the platform team at Workleap. He has a background in software engineering, mostly with .NET technologies. In his free time, Guillaume likes to cook and fiddle with some woodworking projects.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:45pm - 1:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

1:30pm MST

Crossing the Chasm: The Journey of The New York Times IDP from Conception to Early Majority - David Grizzanti, New York Times
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
In our presentation, we will share how The New York Times has crafted a developer platform interface that is both straightforward and powerful, a transformation offering significant value to the wider cloud-native community. Attendees will gain firsthand insights into the effective strategies employed for abstracting Kubernetes complexities, ensuring that control and customization are not compromised.

Attendees will walk away understanding how we created:

- A set of user personas that allow us to make more mindful trade-off decisions between simplicity and extensibility.

- A process that makes feedback from our users transparent, centralized, and actionable.

- A capability maturity model that enables us to confidently roll out adoption of new features with feedback points along the way.

- An intentional marketing strategy that incorporates The Chasm framework and innovation-adoption gap.
Speakers
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David Grizzanti

Principal Engineer, The New York Times
David Grizzanti is a Principal Engineer at The New York Times focused on improving developer productivity by enabling engineering teams to more effectively build, test, and deploy software. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, where he oversaw the development of... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:05pm MST

Harnessing Crossplane and Dapr for DevOps: FICO’s Platform Engineering Journey to Increase Velocity - Hugo Smitter, FICO
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
FICO’s platform engineering team is constantly researching new tools to help accelerate delivery of solutions to our customers. We reviewed various tools enabling our teams to write sophisticated automation pipelines. Learn how we leverage Crossplane and Dapr to build Composition pipelines for increased deployment flexibility and velocity.

We’ll explore:
  • Overview of the FICO® Platform and strategic business objectives driving our tool selection. 
  • Explore Crossplane Functions for dynamic resource generation, database interactions, secret management and more.
  • Combine Dapr’s building blocks with Crossplane to streamline your DevOps workflows to increase deployment flexibility and velocity.
  •  Building Anything-as-Code (AaC) pipelines using Crossplane’s Composition Functions aided by Dapr to separate user logic from boilerplate code.
Gain technical insights and practical knowledge on new tools to increase velocity and flexibility of your team’s workflows and AaC deployments.
Speakers
avatar for Hugo Smitter

Hugo Smitter

Platform Architect at FICO, FICO
Senior Enterprise and Solutions Architect with international experience in multiple industries. Track record performing leadership roles as: chief architect, solution architect, platform architect, systems integrator, information architect, delivery excellence auditor, consultant... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:40pm MST

Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, ServiceNow Cloud Observability & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
If you’re a developer, then security may be the last thing on your mind. Perhaps you’ve even had a very negative experience with your Platform Engineering team and Information Security (InfoSec) in your organization: telling you what you can and can’t do, waiting for access to tools and cloud services. All this can be a real damper on developer productivity. But what if we told you that there was a way in which security concerns could be met, while also allowing developers the ability to develop in peace, with minimal red tape?

In this session, Adriana and Marino will explore how policy-as-code improves Developer Experience (DevEx):
  • What is policy as code and its benefits 
  • Challenges of Policy as code
  • Silos between Developers and Security teams
  • How Policy as code can help bridge the silos
  • Best practices for securing a platform with Policy as code
Speakers
avatar for Adriana Villela

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace
Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →
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Marino Wijay

Staff Solutions Architect, Kong Inc.
Marino Wijay is a Canadian, Traveller, International Speaker, and Open Source Advocate and Architect for Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is a CNCF Ambassador, Civo Cloud Ambassador, Lead Organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto, and Founder of EmpathyOps. He is passionate about... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:05pm MST

PM Break 1
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:05pm - 3:20pm MST
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:05pm - 3:20pm MST

3:20pm MST

Innovating at Scale: Building and Managing Modern Developer Platform in U.S. Bank - Poonam Garg & Carrie Pommier, U.S. Bank
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
In the rapidly evolving financial services landscape, the ability to innovate at scale is crucial for maintaining a competitive edge and meeting customer expectations. This talk delves into the strategic, product and technical aspects of creating and managing developer platforms aka shield platform in U.S. Bank that drives innovation, enhance efficiency, and support scalable growth to achieve business goals such as cloud migration , digital transformation etc. The Shield Platform (an internal development platform) is a set of curated services to mitigate common challenges involved with building software. It does this by providing a series of frameworks, integrations, and automations to deliver applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Each service provided within the platform supplies its own controls and guardrails in accordance to security and compliance best practices. We will walk through our journey to build secure & reliable internal developer platform.
Speakers
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Poonam Garg

Vice President, U.S. Bank
Poonam Garg ,an engineering leader and women in technology advocate working as Vice President at U.S Bank.Poonam has spearheaded cultural transformation around DevOps at U.S Bank through an agile and collaborative approach ("change mindset") to software development. Poonam lead technical... Read More →
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Carrie Pommier

Product Group Manager, Vice President, U.S. Bank
Carrie Pommier is a Product Management executive at U.S. Bank, leading a Developer Experience & Tools team, targeting 10,000+ internal engineering team members. A key content collaborator, Carrie champions the Product Model being implemented within U.S. Bank's multi-year, $500MM modernization... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

3:55pm MST

If You Build It, They Will Come - a Platform Modernization Journey - Ken Heaslip & Chloe Clarke, Canada Life
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
The story of a shift from on an premise container orchestration platform to a cloud based, feature rich, platform that became the first of it's kind in the company. We will share the challenges we saw in the "current state" on-premise platform (infra scalability, observability gaps, inconsistent security design, usability for customers, etc). We will discuss the process used to design the new platform including inclusion of customer feedback, how tooling was selected, how each was used to addressed the gaps and significantly improve the platform, and strategies on ensuring success for consumers of all skill levels. A few tools used include Amazon EKS, Tetrate (observability, security, and access control patterns), Karpenter (automate node scaling, ensure 99.99% HA, control cost, and address infra DR needs), Velero (automate cluster configuration backups and restores), Cloudability (cost reporting), and integration with service now for automated CI creation and deletion of CI's.
Speakers
avatar for Chloe Clarke

Chloe Clarke

DevOps Engineer, Canada Life
A dedicated Devops Engineer specializing in containerization, kubernetes and cloud migrations. Passionate about transforming legacy systems into modern, scalable environments.
avatar for Ken Heaslip

Ken Heaslip

Mr, Canada Life
I've worked in the tech field for 18 years and had the opportunity to span many technologies in my time. My best work comes from researching and implementing new tech where the challenge to learn it well enough to build a great design is high. I enjoy mentoring others and helping... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

4:25pm MST

Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb - Viktor Farcic, Upbound
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:25pm - 4:50pm MST
Most of the developer platform consoles I saw are getting it completely wrong, and I honestly cannot understand why. For decades now we know that a good UI is a dumb UI. A good UI does not contain much logic. UIs rely on APIs to discover what can be done and what information is needed to do whatever should be done. Yet, when I see developer portal UIs, more often than not, they do not try to rely on APIs. Instead, they are doing their best to ignore them, to bypass them, to use their internal APIs, and to do too much for no good reason.
Speakers
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Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:25pm - 4:50pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

5:00pm MST

Panel: Platform Adoption Strategies: Critical Roles When Investing in Platforms - Danielle Cook, StackGen; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Simon Forster, CNCF Ambassador
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Adopting a cloud-native platform is a significant step that goes beyond just financial investment. It includes investing in the right people, refining processes, and setting supportive policies. This panel, featuring panelists’ perspectives from startups, end-users, and vendors, will discuss the types of investment beyond budget that’s required. It will then focus on how to communicate this investment strategy to the C-suite to gain buy-in. It will showcase real-world examples on how platforms can help with faster product launches, cost savings, and increased customer satisfaction and discuss how to track and demonstrate key performance metrics that the C-suite cares about. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of what the C-suite cares about and how a cloud-native platform aligns with overall business goals and delivers lasting value.
Speakers
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Danielle Cook

VP, StackGen
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
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Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Independent
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →
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Valentina Rodriguez Sosa

Principal, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. She loves contributing to the community, such as co-organizing KCD NY, and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

5:30pm MST

Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks - Vijay Chintha & Paula Kennedy, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 5:35pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Paula Kennedy

Paula Kennedy

Chief Operating Officer, Syntasso
Paula is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso; previous roles include Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal and Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of CloudCredo. With 20+ years experience in IT, Paula champions community, diversity and inclusion and has a range of... Read More →
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Vijay Chintha

Platform Engineering Manager, Comcast
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 5:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

5:30pm MST

Evening Reception (Salt Palace)
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm MST
Join us onsite for drinks and appetizers with fellow co-located attendees from Tuesday's CNCF-hosted Co-located Events.

Attendees from all CNCF Co-located Events are welcome.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 7:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Lower Concourse + Level 2 | Upper Mezzanine
 

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