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Tuesday, November 12
 

9:00am MST

AppDeveloperCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mark Fussell, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Mark Fussell

CEO, Diagrid
CEO of Diagrid, a developer focused startup. Leader with proven track record of building innovative computing platforms, running large scale, cloud services, building OSS communities and starting new businesses. I have over 30 years of experience building go-to-market strategies... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G
  AppDeveloperCon

9:00am MST

BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
avatar for Avantika Iyer

Avantika Iyer

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify
Avantika Iyer is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify, working across the stack on Backstage's open source and commercial products. She likes product engineering that is driven by customer needs and feedback and brings in a wide range of experience from small startups and multinational... Read More →
avatar for Balaji Sivasubramanian

Balaji Sivasubramanian

Head of Product, Developer Tools, Red Hat
Balaji is the Head of Product, Developer Tools at Red Hat, where he leads the development of products to address the needs of developers, including Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage.io) and Podman Desktop. Before joining Red Hat, Balaji served as the Executive VP of Product... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H
  BackstageCon

9:00am MST

Cilium + eBPF Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Bill Mulligan, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Bill Mulligan

Community, Isovalent at Cisco
Bill Mulligan is a cloud native pollinator and community builder. He has given talks, written articles, and appeared on podcasts on a wide range of topics around cloud native. While at CNCF he restarted the Kubernetes Community Day program. He is currently at Isovalent growing the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B
  Cilium + eBPF Day

9:00am MST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
avatar for Rajas Kakodkar

Rajas Kakodkar

Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom | Tech Lead CNCF TAG Runtime, Broadcom
Rajas is a staff software engineer at Broadcom and a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Runtime. He is actively involved in the AI working group in the CNCF. He is a Kubernetes contributor and has been a maintainer of the Kube Proxy Next Gen Project. He has also served... Read More →
avatar for Ricardo Rocha

Ricardo Rocha

Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN
Ricardo leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training... Read More →
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Amber Graner

product owner
I’m a seasoned professional with a rich history in open source communities–Ubuntu, Linaro, Open Compute Project Foundation, Zeek, Kubeflow and more. I’m known for my leadership skills and commitment to inclusivity. I served as an all-source intelligence analyst in the US Army... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

9:00am MST

Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Christophe Sauthier

CNCF Training and Certification Lead, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A
  Cloud Native University

9:00am MST

Data on Kubernetes Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks: Kubernetes and DoK: The Next 10 Years - Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Melissa Logan

CEO, Constantia
Melissa Logan has worked in tech for 24 years and is currently director of the Data on Kubernetes and Data Mesh Learning communities, and founder of Constantia.io - a tech community and communications company. Constantia works with data and open source companies to provide marketing... Read More →
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Adam Durr

Senior Platform Engineer, Starbucks
Adam enjoys using his experience as a Platform Engineer. With 20 years of experience, Adam has an extensive database background, including SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has built platforms using Cloud technologies and Gitops. When not working, you will find... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Data on Kubernetes Day

9:00am MST

EnvoyCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
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Matt Turner

Software Engineer, Tetrate
Matt is a software engineer at Tetrate, working on Istio-related products, and loves sharing the latest tech and trends with everyone. He's been doing Dev, sometimes with added Ops, for over a decade. His idea of "full-stack" is Linux, Kubernetes, and now Istio too. He's given many... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  EnvoyCon

9:00am MST

Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Anna Kapuscinska, Austin Parker & Eduardo Silva, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
avatar for Anna Kapuscinska

Anna Kapuscinska

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco
Anna is a software engineer at Isovalent, focusing on eBPF-based observability and security. Her previous roles span the industry: she wore both developer and SRE hats, and worked in AdTech, FinTech, public healthcare, end-user SaaS company and a hosting provider. On good weather... Read More →
avatar for Austin Parker

Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io
Austin is a founding member of the OpenTelemetry project and sits on its governance committee. In addition, he's written two books on observability; Distributed Tracing in Practice and Learning OpenTelemetry. He is the Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, helping to define the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E
  Observability Day

9:00am MST

OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Community
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Maclean

Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit

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
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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 →
avatar for Stacey Potter

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

9:00am MST

ArgoCon | Welcome + Project Update - Pratik Wadher, Intuit
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:35am MST
Speakers
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Pratik Wadher

SVP, Development Services & Experiences (DevX), Intuit
Pratik Wadher is a senior vice president of product development at Intuit with responsibility for all development services and experiences, including the cloud-native modern SaaS platform that powers the company's financial products and services, which serve more than 100 million... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:00am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

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
avatar for Colin Griffin

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 →
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 →
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 →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G
  Platform Engineering Day

9:10am MST

Cloud-Native Curriculum for Diverse Student Cohorts - Zara Ahmad-Post, University of Arizona
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Much of academia is new to cloud-native computing and tooling, and many professors of cloud-native computing are building curriculum from scratch. Additionally, our diverse students have greatly varying levels of technological and academic experiences. In this talk, we’ll explore how educators can create curricula that serve diverse student cohorts while building the deep, technical skill sets required to thrive in a cloud-native world. You’ll hear from an instructor who revamped a graduate-level course on cloud computing at UArizona. We’ll discuss how the class is structured, how we've advocated in industry to make this course financially feasible, and how cloud-native computing coursework can be a differentiator for students, Universities, and the larger community. Talk attendees will leave with sample course assignments, suggestions for supplemental learning materials, and ideas for supporting students from many backgrounds while they engage in the vast world of cloud computing.
Speakers
avatar for Zara Ahmad-Post

Zara Ahmad-Post

Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona
Zara is a bridge between academia, industry, and government, having collaborated through research and development across several universities, countless companies, and representatives from U.S. federal and state departments. She is a senior security data scientist at DigitalOcean... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

9:10am MST

Making Envoy Resilient to Sudden Increases in Load - Boteng Yao, Google
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
In this session, attendees will receive an in-depth analysis of effects and ways to make Envoy resilient to sudden increases in load. An analysis of last year's industry-wide CVE HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack will illustrate practical implementation of mitigation measures. The session will further describe features developed in Envoy to defend against resource starvation. This includes system-level configuration practices and recent advancements in Envoy's overload manager designed to make Envoy resilient to spiky traffic.
Speakers
avatar for Boteng Yao

Boteng Yao

Software Engineer, Google
Boteng is a Software Engineer at Google, working on Envoy for various products with an emphasis on data plane, reliability, and security.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  EnvoyCon, Envoy in production case studies

9:10am MST

Observability Projects Updates - Project Maintainers
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E
  Observability Day

9:10am MST

How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web - Jen Luther Thomas, Tigera
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Project Calico is a widely adopted open-source solution known for its flexible architecture, providing robust networking and security across most cloud providers. Feature flagging is a critical step in every release for Project Calico, allowing Tigera engineers to deploy our solution without breaking the Internet. This talk will explore the importance of feature flagging within Project Calico, highlighted by the real-world case study of the Reddit Pi Day incident. We will discuss how this incident underscored the necessity of feature flagging and led to its extensive adoption in our project. Attendees will gain insights into the underlying problems that feature flagging solves on a big scale and the relevance of these practices in maintaining seamless, secure operations in diverse cloud environments. Join us to learn how Project Calico leverages feature flagging, which allows you to scroll through your favourite social services, such as Reddit!
Speakers
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Jen Luther Thomas

Technical Marketing Engineer, Tigera
Jen Luther Thomas is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Tigera. She has 10 years of experience in the geospatial industry and in more recent years was responsible for customer success of cloud and container deployments of enterprise ETL software. At Tigera, she is a subject matter... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:10am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

9:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How I've Become a Certified Argo Project Associate and How You Can Too! - Al-Hussein Hameed Jasim, Tetra Pak
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 9:55am MST
The Argo Project, an open-source, container-native workflow engine tailored for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes, is a highly sought-after skill as organizations increasingly adopt cloud native computing. In response to the growing demand, the CNCF has recently introduced the all-new certification, Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA), specifically designed to validate a candidate's knowledge in the Argo Project ecosystem. In this talk, Al-Hussein shares his firsthand experience of successfully preparing for and passing the CAPA certification exam. You will get an insider's look at his preparation strategy, practical tips, and a curated selection of resources that helped him most, including official thought out documentation.
Speakers
avatar for Al-Hussein Hameed Jasim

Al-Hussein Hameed Jasim

DevOps Engineer, Tetra Pak
Al-Hussein is a DevOps engineer who loves all things cloud native. Al-Hussein holds three M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, majoring in Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development from the University of Lorraine, Lappeenranta University of Technology... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 9:55am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

9:45am MST

Insightful Traffic Monitoring: Harnessing Cilium for Comprehensive Network Observability - Sudheendra Murthy & Adithya Yavanamanda, eBay
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
eBay's cloud consists of thousands of microservices running on millions of containers across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters. In this dynamic & complex cloud environment, mapping dependencies between microservices is crucial. This session delves into how eBay innovatively and scalably uses Cilium, powered by eBPF, to monitor traffic flows, generate real-time traffic events and construct a comprehensive dependency graph of microservice interactions across hundreds of K8s clusters.

The presentation will cover:
  • The innovative use of eBPF and Cilium to monitor traffic events in near real-time 
  • How traffic events are mapped to different microservices
  • The architecture and design of the scalable solution to handle the large volume data
  • The integration of OpenTelemetry for efficient traffic event stream processing
  • Key challenges and solutions in building and maintaining the dependency graph
  • Insights and lessons learned from integrating eBPF and Cilium into eBay’s infrastructure
Speakers
avatar for Adithya Yavanamanda

Adithya Yavanamanda

Software Engineer, eBay
Software engineer interested in distributed systems, currently working on securing large scale kubernetes infrastructure at eBay Inc meandering between all layers from linux kernel to distributed control planes.
avatar for Sudheendra Murthy

Sudheendra Murthy

Principal Engineer & Cloud Architect, eBay
Sudheendra is a Principal Engineer and Cloud Architect in the Cloud Infrastructure group at eBay. He has more than 14 years of experience in cloud technologies including Kubernetes, Micro-segmentation, SDN, OpenStack and designing highly scalable and performant systems.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B
  Cilium + eBPF Day, Use Cases

9:45am MST

Attack, Defense & Danger in the Age of AI - Shane Lawrence, Shopify
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
The transformers revolution has spurred a race between hackers looking for an edge and security teams looking for leverage, while organizations of all kinds rush to make use of this new technology with little awareness of how it works and how it could be used against them. In this talk, Shane will describe some of the ways that AI is being used by attackers, countermeasures for AI attacks, opportunities for AI to mitigate conventional attacks, and how AI-powered services might be used against their owners. He’ll show a live demo combining these concepts. Attendees will learn about the AI-related risks they face and techniques for managing those risks.
Speakers
avatar for Shane Lawrence

Shane Lawrence

Senior Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer, Shopify
Shane is a Senior Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at Shopify, where he's working on a multi-tenant platform that allows developers to securely build scalable apps and services for crafters, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

9:45am MST

AI Assisted Hands-on Learning - the Future of Education - Michael Forrester, Kodekloud
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
In an era where Cloud Native skills are in high demand, traditional learning methods often fall short. This session explores the transformative power of AI-assisted hands-on learning in revolutionizing Cloud Native education. We'll delve into how interactive labs have enabled us at KodeKloud to effectively teach millions of students, equipping them with practical skills in Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, and more. Discover how AI-driven interactive platforms are shaping the future of education by providing personalized, immersive, and scalable learning experiences. Join us to uncover best practices and innovative techniques that can elevate your approach to Cloud Native training, ensuring your learners are prepared for tomorrow's challenges.
Speakers
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Michael Forrester

Principal Trainer, Kodekloud
Michael Rishi Forrester is a principal trainer and engineer at KodeKloud with over 25 years of experience in Operations (before everyone called it DevOps) and DevOps. He specializes in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes and the Cloud. With his expertise... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

9:45am MST

Simplify Stream Data Processing with Declarative, Scalable K8s Native Technologies - Derek Wang & Vigith Maurice, Intuit
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Stream processing and data analytics are crucial for various roles, including data engineers, platform engineers, DevOps, and many more. Simplifying real-time stream data processing while ensuring it's cost-efficient and resilient to K8s pod restarts or node upgrades remains a significant challenge. While existing stream processing solutions exist, they are often hard to manage, operationally demanding, and expensive. This presentation will share our journey in developing a generic open-source Kubernetes-native stream processing framework, it allows developers to effortlessly and quickly execute large-scale stream processing tasks without the burden of heavy and costly data processing platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Vigith Maurice

Vigith Maurice

Principal Engineer, Intuit
Vigith is a co-creator of Numaproj and Principal Software Engineer for the Intuit Core Platform team in Mountain View, California. One of Vigith's current day-to-day focus areas is the various challenges in building scalable data and AIOps solutions for both batch and high-throughput... Read More →
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Derek Wang

Principan Software Engineer, Intuit
Derek Wang is a Principal Software Engineer working for Intuit, his main focus is on the architecture of event-driven systems, as well as streaming data processing. He is the project lead of a couple of open source projects: CNCF graduated project Argo Events, and Numaflow (a Kubernetes... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

9:45am MST

Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Profiling offers powerful insights, but many developers and engineers find them intimidating. This session aims to demystify profiling data, turning novices into experts.

In this talk, Frederic will cover:
  • Fundamentals of Profiling: What is profiling, and what can you gain from it? 
  • Decoding Flamegraphs: Learn how to read flamegraphs, turning raw data into actionable insights.
  • Real-World Applications: Discover how continuous profiling is revolutionizing observability within the Observability ecosystem. 
  • Hands-On Examples: Practical demonstrations of open-source profiling tools and techniques, helping you apply what you learn immediately. 
By the end of this talk, you will have the skills to make full use of profiling data, ensuring your applications run efficiently. Whether you're new to profiling or looking to refine your skills, this session will provide you with the knowledge to elevate your observability practices and become a cloud-native performance expert.
Speakers
avatar for Frederic Branczyk

Frederic Branczyk

Founder, Polar Signals
Frederic is the founder of Polar Signals. Before founding Polar Signals he was a senior principal engineer and main architect for all things Observability at Red Hat, joining through the CoreOS acquisition. Frederic is a Prometheus & Thanos maintainer and tenured as a tech lead for... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage: Building a Better Platform from the Framework Up - Tom Barkan-Benkler, Spotify
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:55am - 10:00am MST
Every business is now a software business…and every company is now a technology company. The world of technology has become more fragmented than ever before — with workflows distributed across tons of tools, systems, and services. Additionally, teams are now distributed, and asynchronous collaboration has become the norm.

At Spotify, we believe that teams are most effective, and happiest, when the chaos is controlled so they can focus on innovating. That’s why we open sourced Backstage in 2020, and continue to invest in its future today. With Backstage, teams can spend more time innovating and delivering value to your organization — and a lot less on the noise.

Backstage’s success in open source — and its evolution as a mission-critical tool for Spotify’s R&D teams — has shown us that there’s opportunity to make that true not only for engineering teams, but for all the folks involved in developing software across your organization. In this keynote, we’ll dive into how Spotify is investing in the future of Backstage, and leading the way toward development best practices at-large.
Speakers
avatar for Tom Barkan-Benkler

Tom Barkan-Benkler

Director of Product, Platform Developer Experience, Spotify
Tom Barkan-Benkler is a Director of Product Management at Spotify, leading Backstage's product team and Spotify’s cross-disciplinary developer experience team. Tom Started his career 17 years ago as a developer, founded two companies as an entrepreneur, and in the last 10 years... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:55am - 10:00am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H
  BackstageCon

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

10:00am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Where User Experience and Open Source Thrives - Christian Hernandez, Akuity & Jacob Feldman, CoreWeave
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:00am - 10:05am MST
Akuity, founded by the co-creators of the Argo Project, is dedicated to advancing cloud-native application delivery and driving Kubernetes adoption inside organizations. Our mission is to enhance the end-to-end user experience for Platform Engineers, Application Developers, and DevOps teams alike. In the session, we wish to share our innovations and challenges we have faced during our open source journey.
Speakers
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Jacob Feldman

CoreWeave
Jacob Feldman as a long time member of the CoreWeave team works closely with customers across use cases to design and engineer solutions. Whether it's achieving incredible scale or collaborating on brand new uses for GPU compute, Jacob has been witness to customers achieving incredible... Read More →
avatar for Christian Hernandez

Christian Hernandez

Head of Community, Akuity, Inc
Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:00am - 10:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering - Ben Wilcock, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:05am - 10:10am MST
Internal Developer Portals (IDPs), like Backstage, are becoming essential for enabling platform engineering in enterprises. These portals streamline developer workflows, centralize resources, and foster a self-service culture, reducing operational overhead. With the integration of AI, IDPs can further transform the developer experience through intelligent automation, predictive insights, and enhanced productivity. This talk explores how AI-enhanced IDPs are shaping the future of platform engineering, driving efficiency and innovation in enterprise environments.
Speakers
avatar for Ben Wilcock

Ben Wilcock

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat
Ben loves helping application development teams improve their productivity and achieve better results. He does this through listening, learning, and coaching - influencing individuals and teams in organizations all over the globe. His digital marketing expertise and many hours of... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:05am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H
  BackstageCon

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

10:10am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Argo is Winning Everywhere - Paul Stovell, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:10am - 10:15am MST
Just like Kubernetes, Argo is deploying and winning everywhere, in the datacenter, behind the firewall, and at the edge. In our experience, we’ve seen every kind of deployment imaginable (and some that would truly surprise you) and we’ll share patterns for success along with what we’re doing to keep Argo working securely in all these diverse use cases.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Stovell

Paul Stovell

Founder & CEO, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
Paul started Octopus with his wife Sonia in 2012. In his spare time, he loves working on carpentry and DIY projects.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:10am - 10:15am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: eBPF: Now Turing Complete! - Liz Rice, Isovalent, now part of Cisco
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Conway’s Game of Life is well known in computer science as a Turing complete zero-player game. In this keynote you’ll see Game of Life implemented in eBPF, and explore what this means for the evolution of eBPF as a powerful platform for infrastructure tools.
Speakers
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Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent at Cisco
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the creators of the Cilium project, and now part of Cisco. Currently on the boards of the CNCF and OpenUK, she was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B
  Cilium + eBPF Day

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Advancing Cloud Native AI Innovation Through Open Collaboration - Yuan Tang, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
In the rapidly evolving field of AI, innovation flourishes through the open exchange of ideas, resources, and knowledge. In this keynote, we will delve into Red Hat’s journey in cloud native and AI, showcasing our community-driven efforts and initiatives that promote a culture of open collaboration within the cloud native AI ecosystem. We invite you to join us in this collaborative effort and explore opportunities to contribute to and benefit from a vibrant community.
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Yuan Tang

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. Previously, he has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes. He's also a maintainer and... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale - Anurag Gupta, Chronosphere
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
With the move to microservices and distributed systems, the amount of telemetry data that organizations need to collect and analyze has skyrocketed. This session will include different methods and best practices for collecting telemetry data with OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit. In particular, we will talk about how to leverage Fluent Bit for custom processing of OpenTelemetry data at scale and a real-world use case from LinkedIn. 
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Anurag Gupta

Field Architect, Chronosphere
Anurag is Field Architect at Chronosphere and is a maintainer of the Fluentd and Fluent Bit project  Previously he was the co-founder of Calyptia, a telemetry pipeline company that was acquired by Chronosphere.  Anurag worked at Elastic, driving cloud product and creating the Elastic... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E
  Observability 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

10:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Intro to the CNCF App Development WG - Daniel Oh & Mauricio Salatino, WG Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:25am MST
We are excited to introduce the newly formed Application Development Working Group (WG) under the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for App Delivery within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Co-chaired by Mauricio Salatino, Daniel Oh, and Thomas Vitale, this WG aims to foster the growth of developers in the cloud native space. The Application Development WG was established to address the increasing need for specialized focus on cloud native application development. Our mission is to engage and support developers transitioning to or enhancing their practices within the cloud native ecosystem. This initiative is integral to the CNCF’s broader strategy of promoting cloud native technologies and fostering a vibrant, collaborative community.
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He's also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating... Read More →
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Mauricio Salatino

OSS Software Engineer, Diagrid
Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:25am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

10:20am MST

Sponsored Keynote: How Intuit Uses Argo, GitOps, and AI to Boost Developer Velocity - Edward Lee, Intuit
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:20am - 10:25am MST
Explore how Intuit accelerates innovation by integrating Argo, GitOps, and AI to enhance developer productivity. Our platform engineering team leverages these tools and technologies to analyze complex build and deployment logs, distilling them into concise, human-readable insights. Join us to discover how Intuit has reduced troubleshooting time by 60% and minimized build and deployment failures, empowering our developers to iterate more rapidly on code changes and pipeline modifications.
Speakers
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Edward Lee

Fellow and Chief Architect of Development Platforms, Intuit
Ed is a Fellow and Chief Architect of Development Platforms at Intuit. Over the past three years, Intuit has increased its development velocity by six fold by platformizing kubernetes, observability and operational excellence, and has plans to increase it by another six fold in the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:20am - 10:25am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Evolution of MLOps - Alex Yeh, GMI Cloud
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
The need to evolve from DevOps to MLOps arises from the unique challenges that machine learning (ML) systems bring, which traditional DevOps processes aren’t equipped to handle. While DevOps focuses on software development and operations, MLOps is necessary because ML models introduce complexities related to data, model lifecycle, and experimentation that go beyond typical software management. 
Speakers
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Alex Yeh

CEO, GMI Cloud
CEO & Founder of GMI Cloud
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: IBM Instana's Automated Resource Optimization Powered by IBM Turbonomic - Joe Sforza, IBM
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
Explore IBM Instana’s latest feature - automated resource optimization, powered by IBM Turbonomic. This integration delivers dynamic, application-aware resource management tailored for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. By leveraging real-time telemetry from Instana’s observability platform, resources are continuously adjusted at the container, pod, and node levels based on live performance metrics and predefined SLOs. This automation ensures optimal workload placement, balancing resource demands and utilization to maximize performance, reduce latency, and prevent resource contention. Ideal for complex use cases like microservices observability, Kubernetes auto-scaling, and Gen AI/LLM workload optimization, this feature allows developers to streamline infrastructure management, lower operational costs, and maintain seamless service availability without manual intervention.
Speakers
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Joe Sforza

Brand Technical Specialist, IBM
Joe is a Brand Technical Specialist at IBM, specializing in automation and AI-driven application management with Turbonomic. With a focus on cloud cost optimization, Kubernetes, and automation, Joe helps organizations boost performance and cut costs in real time. A tech enthusiast... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:25am - 10:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E
  Observability 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

Sponsored Keynote: The Twelve-Factor App, Rebooted: Essentials for Cloud Native Development - Vish Abrams, Heroku
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:30am - 10:35am MST
In 2011, the “Twelve-Factor App“ manifesto was written, outlining essential principles for building scalable applications. These principles became foundational to the container ecosystem and have been translated into 18 languages, remaining highly relevant today. However much has changed in the decade plus since and it’s time to reexamine and refresh the manifesto for where cloud-native environments are today and where apps and systems are going.

In this session, we’ll explore three key updates to the manifesto that will propel your development practices into the future—empowering your teams to harness the full potential of cloud-native platforms, unlock new levels of efficiency, and build applications ready to thrive in the next decade.
Speakers
avatar for Vish Abrams

Vish Abrams

Chief Architect, Heroku
Vish is Chief Architect at Heroku, a subsidiary of Salesforce. Formerly he was a Software Architect at Oracle where he focused on virtualization, containerization, and machine learning for the Cloud Infrastructure team. Prior to Oracle, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Nebula... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:30am - 10:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G
  AppDeveloperCon

10:40am MST

eBPF for Creating Least Privileged Policies; What Do I Need to Know to Prepare for the Next CVEs? - Natalia Reka Ivanko & John Fastabend, Isovalent, now part of Cisco
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Least privilege is a very old concept that is well understood and already implemented in the cloud native landscape by Security Teams. It is often encountered when they deploy an application and will be asked: what privileges does this workload require? Join John and Natalia to learn how eBPF allows to implement least privileged policies by injecting code inline into the kernel and keeping the application overhead minimal! This will be a fun talk which evaluates eBPF-based least privileged policies against a list of known CVEs by showing a live demo. We will show how eBPF can be used to implement the least privileged principle by monitoring every process and system call execution, networking and file access, or even stack traces combining this data to create a known ordering and making the attacker's job immensely harder. We will finish by explaining where this technology shines and where we are continuing to improve to block the next generation of security attacks.
Speakers
avatar for Natalia Reka Ivanko

Natalia Reka Ivanko

Sr. Product Manager, Isovalent, now part of Cisco
Natalia Ivanko is a Sr. Product Manager at Isovalent, and now part of Cisco, leading an eBPF-based Runtime Security Product, Tetragon. She has been  previously a Security Engineer with a strong background in Linux, Container and Cloud Security. Passionate about building things that... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B
  Cilium + eBPF Day, Benefits of eBPF

10:40am MST

Making Students Industry Ready with CNCF Ecosystem as a Catalyst - Nancy Chauhan, CNCF Ambassadors
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Everywhere we go, we hear layoffs, layoffs, and layoffs! Companies are looking to hire, but many students and professionals are struggling to find new jobs. So, where is the gap? The problem lies in a lack of industrial-demanded skills in the industry. We have been actively involved in the CNCF ecosystem for some years now, and it has helped us get connected worldwide and build a strong network. Sharing our knowledge with study groups, cloud-native, and AI community groups, we have also conducted webinars and online meetups to help people develop their skills. Join us in discovering the strategies for integrating CNCF projects into academic curricula, providing students with real-world experience and bridging the gap between academia and industry with us. This talk will explore the significant potential of engaging university students in open-source projects within the CNCF, offering fresh perspectives on collaboration and skill development outside of traditional Internship programs.
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Nancy Chauhan

Nancy Chauhan, Student, Independent, CNCF Ambassador
Nancy, an Engineer and CNCF Ambassador, is currently pursuing a Masters in Engineering from Cornell University. She founded the "Women in Cloud Native Community" to promote diversity and participation. Nancy organized the first cloud-native sustainability mini-conference in India... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

10:40am MST

But Wait! There's...Still More‽ - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them - Éamon Ryan, Grafana Labs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
As we add more observability signals and points of insight into the software we design, we create more and more data. Data that has to be processed. Data that has to be stored. Data that has to be iterated over and retrieved. All of this increases stress on the system that stores it which naturally increases costs to run the system both in infrastructure, people power and more. This talk takes people through the history of how these volumes have grown over time, then moves into the current strategies and tradeoffs for managing them. It also offers a glimpse into what might come into this space in the future.
Speakers
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Éamon Ryan

Senior Principal Field Engineer, Grafana Labs
Éamon is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he builds and maintains internal and external environments, builds out advanced workshops, provides input on product use-cases and acts as a subject matter expert in some specific areas. He has held many customer-facing... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:40am - 11:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

11:15am MST

Top 5 Success Factors for Cloud-Native Enablement and Common Pitfalls to Avoid - Kunal Kushwaha & Chad M. Crowell, Civo
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Training is increasingly important to tech workers (as shown in the 2023 State of Tech Talent Report). Still, many employees, especially those starting, struggle due to a lack of necessary resources and difficulty finding a mentor. In addition to the time dedicated to their continued education, tech workers need community. They can find immense value in looking outside of their organization and joining a professional learning community. We aim to provide that evidence in this talk and stories from the community. In this talk, we will identify the top five elements of success for those who have joined a professional learning community and provide anecdotal evidence of successful outcomes. These topics include support and mentorship, interactivity of learning resources, learning relative to the job market, focusing on real-world projects and current industry challenges rather than outdated skills, and validating through certification.
Speakers
avatar for Chad M. Crowell

Chad M. Crowell

Platform Engineer at Civo, Civo
Chad is a CNCF Ambassador and Platform Engineer at Civo. Chad is the author of the book "Acing the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam." Chad also enjoys teaching Kubernetes in the small community-led group KubeSkills.
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Kunal Kushwaha

Field CTO, Civo
Building a better future through technology and innovation.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

11:15am MST

Extending Envoy: A Guide to Custom Extensions with Envoy Gateway - Huabing Zhao, Tetrate & Guy Daich, SAP
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
As cloud-native applications evolve, the need for flexible and customizable service proxies grows. Envoy Proxy, known for its robust features and extensibility, is a key player. However, integrating custom extensions into Envoy can be complex. In this session, we will show how Envoy Gateway simplifies adding custom extensions to Envoy. Presented by the maintainer of Envoy Gateway and the author of “EnvoyExtensionPolicy,” attendees will gain insights into the data-plane extension mechanism of Envoy Gateway, with practical examples and use cases.

Key takeaways include:
  • Understanding the core concepts and architecture of Envoy Gateway. 
  • Step-by-step guidance on developing and integrating custom Envoy extensions.
  • Best practices for deploying and managing Envoy with custom extensions in a production environment.
  • Real-world use cases demonstrating the benefits of custom extensions in various scenarios.
Speakers
avatar for Guy Daich

Guy Daich

Architect, SAP
Guy is a development architect at SAP with over 10 years of experience in software engineering. His expertise lies in Kubernetes and Envoy, and he serves as a maintainer of the CNCF Envoy Gateway project.
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Huabing Zhao

Engineer, Tetrate
Huabing Zhao is a software engineer at Tetrate and a CNCF ambassador. He has developed a managed service mesh product on the cloud and assisted a lot of users in deploying Istio service mesh in production. He also founded Aeraki Mesh, a CNCF sandbox project that facilitates non-HTTP... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

11:15am MST

Panel: Kubernetes and GPU Trends for AI in Financial Services - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha; Toshal Khawale, JP Morgan Chase; Bijit Ghosh, Deutsche Bank; Manoj Agrawal, Royal Bank of Canada
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
In this panel discussion with leaders in banking, insurance, and technology, we will explore the convergence of Kubernetes, GPUs and AI in data operations focusing on emerging trends in the financial services industry.

Topics:
  • Emerging trends in cloud-native data operations for financial services 
  • How Kubernetes enables use of AI workloads 
  • Future innovations at the intersection of Kubernetes, GPUs, and AI
  • Challenges and solutions in adopting such technologies in highly regulated environments and what is needed to overcome them
Speakers
avatar for Manoj Agrawal

Manoj Agrawal

Managing Director, Cloud, Royal Bank of Canada
With over two decades experience in financial services, I have specialized in building trading systems, low latency platforms, DevOps, containerization, Data science platforms and Data fabric. My passion lies in leveraging innovation, data and cloud technologies to drive business... Read More →
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Bijit Ghosh

CTO - Head of Engineering, Deutsche Bank
As the CTO and Head of Engineering for Cloud & AI/ML, Bijit leads innovative initiatives that drive the intersection of cloud technology and Generative AI. With a passion for solving complex engineering problems, Bijit spearheads transformative projects that enhance operational efficiency... Read More →
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Olyvia Rakshit

VP Product and Marketing, Avesha
Olyvia Rakshit, VP of Product Marketing and Product(UX) in Avesha has a track record in building innovative products as an entrepreneur and a product lead in large organizations. (EMC/RSA, ComicFlix). Currently Olyvia is passionate about go-to-market and building simplified user journeys... Read More →
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Toshal Khawale

Vice President, JP Morgan Chase
Seasoned Tech Leader with 21+ years in Engineering leadership with expertise on AWS, Azure, Devops ecosystem. My expertise lies in Solution Consulting and design, with a particular focus on crafting and deploying solutions on industry-leading Cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Adding MxN Streaming Support for Envoy External Processing Filter - Yanjun Xiang, Google
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
The Envoy external processing only supports 1x1 body streaming, which is, Envoy sends one chunk of body to the side stream server. The side stream server mutates the received body, then sends the mutated body back to Envoy as the response. This 1x1 requirement becomes a bottleneck for certain use cases like compression, in which the side stream server has to buffer M chunks of data before processing them. After processing, it needs to split the response data into N chunks and send them back one-by-one. Such MxN streaming is not supported in the 1x1 state machine, which greatly limits Envoy's external processing capability. Proposed MxN Algorithm: An API change is added to notify Envoy that there are more response chunks coming back corresponding to a request chunk. Envoy utilizes this API to process the received response and prepare its state machine to receive next chunks. Continue the MxN data streaming as data arrives. Config knob is added for security considerations.





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Yanjun Xiang

Software Engineer, Google
Yanjun Xiang is a software engineer working for Google cloud products using Envoy. He is making contributions in Envoy external processing filter.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:45am - 11:55am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

11:50am MST

Panel: Insights from Internal Developer Portal Rollouts in Large Enterprises - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Serena Chechile, JPMC; Jay Cox, American Airlines; Lilit Yenokyan, Roku
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:50am - 12:25pm MST
This panel features practitioners from industry leaders like Adobe, American Airlines, Roku, and JPMC discussing their experiences in boosting developer productivity through internal developer portals (IDPs). The session dives into how large enterprises with thousands of developers evaluate, onboard, and scale IDPs. Hear from experts about their strategies for optimizing the developer experience and effectively deploying IDPs at scale. Gain insights into challenges encountered during Backstage IDP rollouts and best practices that drive successful adoption. The panelists will share practical examples and approaches that can be adapted by your organization to implement IDPs for your developer community.
Speakers
avatar for Jay Cox

Jay Cox

Principal Engineer, American Airlines
Platform Engineer at American Airlines
avatar for Serena Chechile

Serena Chechile

Developer Experience, Head of Design & Research, JPMC
Serena has 35+ years of experience in PM, UX and development, as an individual contributor and leader. She is Head of Experience @ JPMC, focused on  developer experienxe. She's worked with ~100 companies and organizations identifying and collaborating on best practices, methodologies... Read More →
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srinivas peri

Director of Engineering, Adobe
For the past 7 of my 20 years at Adobe I've been part of Ethos, where I lead the Developer Experience engineering group. My teams deliver capabilities for service frameworks, provisioning, CI/CD, observability, diagnostics, developer support, and the Adobe Developer Portal (based... Read More →
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Balaji Sivasubramanian

Head of Product, Developer Tools, Red Hat
Balaji is the Head of Product, Developer Tools at Red Hat, where he leads the development of products to address the needs of developers, including Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage.io) and Podman Desktop. Before joining Red Hat, Balaji served as the Executive VP of Product... Read More →
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Lilit Yenokyan

Director of Engineering, Developer Experience, Roku
Lilit Yenokyan, the current Director of Engineering at Roku, is pivotal in identifying and enhancing productivity for engineers throughout the company. Before her tenure at Roku, Lilit worked with leading tech companies including Microsoft, Meta, and Netflix, as well as multiple startups... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:50am - 12:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

11:50am MST

Panel: Building the Future of Your Project: How to Engage Students Into Open Source - Zainab Husain, OCAD University; Calum Murray & Leo Li, University of Toronto; Corey Leong, Valencia College; Ali Ok, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:50am - 12:25pm MST
One of the keys to a healthy open source project is a thriving contributor base. Many students are interested in contributing and are motivated to learn about cloud technologies. However, the initial learning curve can be steep, especially for individuals with limited work experience. So how can we help students become long-term, high impact contributors? In this panel, educators and mentors from Valencia College, OCAD University, University of Toronto and Red Hat will share their student engagement strategies. These include: having open source contributions built-in to course projects, pairing students with mentors, creating an open source student club and holding weekly beginner-friendly meetings where students can work on tasks. Through sharing our experiences, we hope to inspire more mutually beneficial partnerships between CNCF projects looking to grow their contributor base and learning institutions looking to provide more hands-on training opportunities for students!
Speakers
avatar for Zainab Husain

Zainab Husain

Knative UX Design Lead, OCAD University
Zainab Husain is a UX Design Researcher working at OCAD University. She completed her Masters in Engineering at the University of Toronto, focusing on Human Computer Interactions. Zainab is passionate about tools that improve collaboration between Engineers and Designers and is also... Read More →
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Corey Leong

Professor Cloud Computing, Valencia College
Prior to teaching, I worked in the IT industry for 25 years. I currently teach cloud computing courses, oversee open source mentorships and cloud internships.
avatar for Leo Li

Leo Li

Knative UX WG lead + Knative Eventing maintainer, University of Toronto
I'm Leo Li, the Knative UX WG Lead and a Knative Eventing Maintainer, currently in my final year of Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. My passion lies in coding to create tools that help people and positively impact the community. I am deeply involved with Knative... Read More →
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Calum Murray

Knative Eventing Maintainer and UX Lead, University of Toronto, Canada
I'm a software engineer, and I love building cool things in open source. I like to seek out the most interesting and challenging problems which I think will have a large impact, and build creative solutions to them. I also like to share my passion for open source with others, and... Read More →
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Ali Ok

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ali Ok works for Red Hat as a principal software engineer. He is a Knative steering committee member and works with working groups within Knative. Besides the technical contributions to Knative and many CNCF projects, Ali is a CNCF Ambassador and a regular contributor to the CNCF... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:50am - 12:25pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

11:55am MST

Kubernetes as Your DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:55am - 12:20pm MST
Are you a systems admin or “infrastructure person” who suddenly had “looking after databases” added to your remit? This seems to happen a lot when everything’s running on Kubernetes and the databases are seen as just another part of the landscape. If so, what do you do? Quickly learn to be a database administrator? Hope the databases look after themselves? Or maybe implement a Kubernetes Operator, that has been created by database experts, to act as your virtual DBA? There are lots of moving parts to an enterprise scale database deployment, whether it’s on Kubernetes or not. You need high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, upgrades… An Operator can do all of this for you, automating the initial deployment of a highly available database architecture, day to day management and monitoring of your databases, and even upgrades. We’ll look at what you want from an Operator, what you need to think about when choosing an Operator, and how easy it can be to get up and running.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Jex

Karen Jex

Senior Solutions Architect, Crunchy Data
Karen was a database administrator for over 20 years and was once described as "quite personable for a DBA", which she decided to take as a compliment! She's now a Senior Solutions Architect at Crunchy Data. She gives talks about databases at PostgreSQL and developer conferences because... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:55am - 12:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Day 2

12:10pm MST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Coummunity
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Maclean

Andrew Maclean

Developer Relations Manager, DevCycle
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:10pm - 12:15pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenFeature Summit

12:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Deep Dive Into Envoy Metrics - Mark Campbell-Vincent, HashiCorp
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:15pm - 12:25pm MST
Last year, I explored troubleshooting Envoy and Kubernetes issues using Ksniff, highlighting its benefits. Building on that, this session will provide a deep dive into Envoy metrics, crucial for understanding network behaviors when Envoy is involved. We’ll examine how these metrics can be instrumental in diagnosing issues within the service mesh, offering multiple approaches to enhance your operational insights.
Speakers
avatar for Mark Campbell-Vincent

Mark Campbell-Vincent

Sr Support Engineer, HashiCorp
Mark Campbell-Vincent Mark Campbell-Vincent is a Senior Support Engineer at HashiCorp, where he assists customers implement Consul in their infrastructure and microservices. Mark acquired a strong knowledge of distributed systems including Kubernetes, Envoy, and Consul to effectively... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:15pm - 12:25pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  EnvoyCon, Monitoring in practice (logging+tracing+stats)

12:20pm MST

Data on Kubernetes Day | Closing Remarks - Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:20pm - 12:25pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Melissa Logan

Melissa Logan

CEO, Constantia
Melissa Logan has worked in tech for 24 years and is currently director of the Data on Kubernetes and Data Mesh Learning communities, and founder of Constantia.io - a tech community and communications company. Constantia works with data and open source companies to provide marketing... Read More →
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Adam Durr

Senior Platform Engineer, Starbucks
Adam enjoys using his experience as a Platform Engineer. With 20 years of experience, Adam has an extensive database background, including SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Mongo, and Cassandra. He has built platforms using Cloud technologies and Gitops. When not working, you will find... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:20pm - 12:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Data on Kubernetes Day

12:25pm MST

Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:25pm - 12:30pm MST
Speakers
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Christophe Sauthier

CNCF Training and Certification Lead, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:25pm - 12:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A
  Cloud Native University

12:25pm MST

EnvoyCon | Closing Remarks - Alyssa Wilk, Google
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:25pm - 12:30pm MST
Speakers
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:25pm - 12:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  EnvoyCon

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
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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

12:55pm MST

Optimizing LLM Efficiency One Trace at a Time on Kubernetes - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Seema Saharan, Autodesk
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:55pm - 1:20pm MST
LLMs are huge to deploy and manage. Have you ever wondered if there's a way to pinpoint exactly which parts of your code are draining resources, causing latency, and hurting performance? In a world where efficiency is crucial, dynamically inspecting application behavior and performance at runtime can be transformative. Join this session to explore how to leverage OpenTelemetry’s profiling feature to optimize LLM code at a much deeper level.

We'll cover how to:
1. Identify specific pieces of code that consume excessive CPU and memory, or cause memory leaks and OOM errors.
2. Improve LLM performance by understanding model behavior, reducing latency, and meeting SLAs and SLOs.
3. Achieve efficient deployments on Kubernetes, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost savings.
Speakers
avatar for Seema Saharan

Seema Saharan

Site Reliability Engineer, CNCF Ambassador, Autodesk
Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join... Read More →
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Aditya Soni

CNCF Ambassador, DevOps Engineer II, Forrester
Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Searce, and is currently positioned at Forrester Research as a DevOps Engineer II. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:55pm - 1:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

1:25pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Speakers
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Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Author, Advisor, and Open Source Contributor
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A
  Cloud Native StartupFest

1:25pm MST

Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Iris Ding & Keith Mattix, Event Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Speakers
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Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft
Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Gateway API, and other networking projects.
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Iris Ding

Cloud software architect, Intel
Iris Ding is a cloud software architect at Intel and has a rich background in open source development, cloud computing, Generative AI(GenAI), middleware development and design. Her current focus is intersection of GenAI and cloud computing and is leading development for Open Platform... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  Istio Day

1:25pm MST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mars Toktonaliev, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Speakers
MT

Mars Toktonaliev

Sr System Engineer, KGPCo
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day

1:25pm MST

OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Speakers
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Sebastian Stadil

OpenTofu Core Contributor, OpenTofu
Sebastian Stadil has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 8000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:25pm - 1:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day

1:30pm MST

Your Cheat Code for API Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Congrats, your org is all-in on microservices! But now you have hundreds (or thousands!) of APIs. Some power your customer-facing apps. Others are platform services that your front-end services consume. Still others are back-end services used by internal tools. And ALL of them need to be authorized. Not to mention, you need to be able to answer questions like “which users are authorized to invoke this endpoint?” and “which endpoints can this user invoke?” Having each API “do its own thing” makes it all but impossible to wrangle this complexity. You need a cross-cutting solution to apply authorization rules consistently - either in the API code or at the API Gateway. Enter Topaz: an open source cloud-native authorization service that is plug-compatible with Open Policy Agent, and provides full support for the Google Zanzibar ReBAC model. This talk provides hands-on learning for how to go from an OpenAPI spec to a fine-grained authorization model, ready to authorize your users.
Speakers
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Omri Gazitt

Co-founder & CEO, Aserto
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto.com, an authorization startup, and his 3rd entrepreneurial venture. He spent the majority of his 30-year career working on developer & infrastructure tech, most recently as the CPO of Puppet. Previously he was the VP & GM of HP's Cloud Native Platform... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

1:30pm MST

The Lego Approach: Leveraging Reusability for a Seamless User Experience - Ashna Malhotra & Mesut Yilmazyildirim, Booking.com
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Tired of a disjointed Backstage with inconsistent plugins? We'll share best practices for a unified, user-friendly experience! Learn how to create reusable components for streamlined development and a cohesive look. Discover how to integrate your company branding for user familiarity. We'll delve into using Storybook for clear documentation and explore strategies for accepting contributions to your components, fostering collaboration. Leave this session with a plan to build a seamless, visually appealing, and collaboratively developed Backstage for your engineering teams!
Speakers
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Ashna Malhotra

Frontend Engineer, Booking.com
As a Frontend Engineer at Booking.com, I have a keen eye for resolving complex problems through innovative solutions. I don't just develop features; I ensure they address real pain points using best practices. My experience spans from internal tools to customer-facing products. I... Read More →
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Mesut Yilmazyildirim

Technical Product Manager, Booking.com
Product Manager
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

1:30pm MST

Dressing-up Your Cluster for AI in Minutes with a Portable Network CR - Sunyanan Choochotkaew & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM Research
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Kubernetes network overhead and complexity is one of the impediments of Cloud adoption for AI, especially when considering using multiple networks to boost bandwidth for distributed tasks. Defining a network configuration for secondary interfaces in a static way is not a trivial task for platform engineers to meet the distinctive demands of heterogeneity and scale within a virtual-private-cloud cluster. In this talk, we show how deploying a single portable custom resource can play a significant role in transforming a VPC cluster into a supercomputer tailored for AI workloads. We share our journey of the Multi-NIC CNI project and demonstrate the benefit of seamlessly enabling dynamicity in network attachment definitions via practical use cases, along with outlining future directions towards the related open source projects like Multus, Node Resource Interface (NRI), Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA), and Kubernetes Networking Interface (KNI).
Speakers
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Tatsuhiro Chiba

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research
Tatsuhiro Chiba is a STSM and Manager at IBM Research, specialized in performance optimization and acceleration of large scale AI and HPC workloads on Hybrid Cloud. He is leading a project to enhance OpenShift performance and sustainability for AI and HPC by exploiting various cloud... Read More →
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Sunyanan Choochotkaew

Staff Research Scientist, IBM
Sunyanan Choochotkaew is working at IBM Research - Tokyo, specializing in cloud platform optimization. She actively contributes to various open-source projects, including Kepler, Multi-NIC CNI, and CPE operator, where she holds the role of maintainer. She has also made contributions... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

1:30pm MST

Where’s the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? A Look at Current Automation Strategies with OTel - Joshua Lee, Altinity
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
“Automatic Instrumentation” can mean a lot of things depending on context. Whether we’re discussing the Instrumentation SDKs or full-kernel observability with eBPF, the promise is the same: end-to-end observability coverage with no custom code and minimal setup. First, I will review how the different mechanisms available for automatic instrumentation work within each of the 11 languages supported by OpenTelemetry. I’ll examine:
  • How code-path instrumentation works at the library level by diving into the Node.js OpenTelemetry Extension and the JavaScript libraries it supports 
  • Automatic instrumentation via attachment with Java and Python
  • Automatic instrumentation injection using the OTel Operator for DotNet, Java, and NodeJS
Finally, I’ll take a peek at the future of automatic instrumentation of compiled binaries with a look at the Go instrumentation library built using eBPF.
Speakers
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Josh Lee

Open Source Developer Advocate, Altinity
Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

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

1:35pm MST

Vanishing Point: Reimagining the Meaning of a Mesh - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Justin Pettit, Google
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Ambient mesh introduces a new service mesh architecture without sidecars, but more than that, it gives us a way of thinking about the mesh as a set of API-driven network capabilities, distinct from the infrastructure used as an implementation. What if your mesh was truly ambient - if it was available and functional anywhere you have a network? This talk will show the state of the art of making Istio’s implementation details - the ztunnel L4 secure overlay and the L7 waypoint proxy - vanish into the cloud infrastructure. We’ll cover our efforts to standardize Istio’s Ambient Mesh interfaces to allow alternative implementations that can leverage existing infrastructure, requiring fewer components, and less management overhead. We’ll imagine alternative waypoint proxy implementations, such as managed load balancers, and non-Envoy proxies, and we’ll discuss how adjacent projects like Cilium CNI are vanishing into the infrastructure, and how these parallel efforts align with one another.
Speakers
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Mitch Connors

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Mitch Connors is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee. Over the past 17 years, Mitch has worked at Google, F5 Networks, Amazon, an Industrial IoT startup, and State Farm Insurance, giving him a broad perspective on the needs... Read More →
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Justin Pettit

Senior Staff Engineer, Google
Justin works on Istio and service mesh at Google. Previously, he worked on Software Defined Networking, helping create the Open vSwitch and OVN projects, as well as the OpenFlow protocol. Prior to Google, Justin worked at four successful startups focused on network virtualization... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

1:35pm MST

Keyboards, Kiosks, and Kubernetes. Oh My! - Andrew Gracey, SUSE
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Since containers are just fancy linux processes, we can shove anything in there, right?!? It turns out: Yeah, pretty much! The presenter has been exploring what you can do when you shove more interesting components (such as X11 and Pulse Audio) into containers. While it might feel like fitting a square peg in a round hole, it turns out this allows us to run kiosks and other HID workloads within Kubernetes! More importantly, it allows for maintaining host/workload decoupling and integrating into the CNCF ecosystem.

By containerizing your kiosk, you can:
  • Manage all of your devices with the same toolchain 
  • Share extra resources on HID computers 
  • Write GUI applications in any language or framework 
  • Mitigate security issues (e.g. no shelling out from a print dialog) 
  • Shrink update size All of this is open source using open source components at github.com/agracey/kiosk
Join the speaker for a deep dive into shenanigans required, lessons they learned, a demo, and how to get involved!
Speakers
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Andrew Gracey

Field Product Manager for Edge, SUSE
Andrew is currently a product manager for all things cloud native edge at SUSE. He is interested in where technology, business, and people intersect to help improve all three!
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:35pm - 2:00pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day, Project Highlights

2:05pm MST

Boosting Training and Inference Performance via Topology-Aware Scheduling of Heterogeneous Resources - He Cao, ByteDance
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
As LLMs rapidly evolve, K8s’ topology management can not meet the performance demands in several aspects: 1. For new-generation high-density processors, NUMA affinity is insufficient to ensure inference performance. 2. The performance bottleneck has shifted from computation to networking. However, K8s does not consider the topology of heterogeneous resources like GPU and RDMA.

In this talk, He will introduce how ByteDance significantly improves LLM workload performance by enhancing topology-aware scheduling: 1. For nodes with high-density processors, achieve die-level affinity and implement anti-affinity between memory bandwidth-intensive pods. 2. For pods within a training job, achieve inter-RDMA affinity at the ToR level to avoid switch congestion. 3. For inference workloads, achieve GPU-RDMA affinity at PCIe switch level to enable GPUDirect RDMA for accelerated communication. 4. How we achieve job-level topology affinity based on K8s scheduler which operates at the pod level.
Speakers
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He Cao

Senior Software Engineer, ByteDance
He Cao is a senior software engineer on the Cloud Native team at ByteDance, a maintainer of Katalyst and KubeZoo, and a member of Istio. He has 5+ years of experience in the cloud native area. Since joining ByteDance, he has designed and implemented several critical systems for VKE... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

2:05pm MST

Measure What Matters - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert, not actionable, but you keep it around just in case. Have you ever looked at your trace waterfall and wondered what exactly happened during that gap that just doesn’t drill down deep enough to surface meaningful details? Do you know the feeling where you have just enough information to sort of monitor what’s going on in your systems, but not quite enough to put your mind at ease or feel like you know where to look when things go wrong? These experiences are almost universally known, something that everyone can relate to at some point in their observability journey. This session will help tackle common pitfalls, offering strategic ways to improve your observability. Armed with a mix of tailored custom instrumentation and well-reasoned SLOs, you’ll walk away able to help yourself and your team sleep better at night knowing you are measuring what matters and reducing the noise of unhelpful alerts.
Speakers
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Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb
Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is an approver for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

2:10pm MST

The Perfect Storm: Production Kubernetes Running on Ocean Vessels - Raghushankar Vatte, ZEDEDA
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
Edge computing is revolutionizing the shipping & logistics industry, enabling real-time insights & decision-making & providing a more seamless customer experience. This session shares the story of a Global F500 shipping company who turned to a Kubernetes-based packet core app to support their connected device strategy. Yet running K8s in the ocean, where you may have thousands of 3-node clusters vs a few 1,000-node clusters, requires a different approach. Distributed environments, with variables such as intermittent connectivity, security concerns & IT resources on the shore miles away, complicate these projects. Learn how they addressed these challenges with a scalable architecture across the entire fleet. This session will also provide an intro to EVE, developed within LF Edge from the Linux Foundation. EVE provides the ideal infrastructure for deploying K8s at the edge by addressing needs in areas like security, autonomy & scale for compute resources outside of secure data centers.
Speakers
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Raghushankar Vatte

Field CTO and VP Strategy, ZEDEDA
Raghushankar Vatte is the Field CTO and VP Strategy at ZEDEDA, where he has built both the Customer Success and Product Management organizations, and today focuses on customer impacting technologies and engagement. Prior to ZEDEDA, Raghu has held multiple engineering, solution architect... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

2:10pm MST

Mutually Assured Development - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
An overview of the history of OpenTofu and how highly competitive actors can come together to build a strong ecosystem and community with the right push.

How do you channel the outrage after a rug pull on an Open Source project into a successful fork and community? A situation developers and companies are faced with all too often these days. How did a group of companies which are direct and fierce competitors kick off this project? This talk offers an inside perspective into the challenges faced by OpenTofu over the past year and what paths we are taking to overcome them.
Speakers
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Christian Mesh

Core Engineer and Tech Lead, OpenTofu, sponsored by SpaceLift
With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, Community Insights

2:10pm MST

Panel: The $100B Opportunity for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem: A VC Perspective - Wei Lien Dang, Unusual Ventures; Astasia Myers, Felicis Ventures; Natalie Vais, Spark Capital; Erik Nordlander, GV (Google Ventures)
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:45pm MST
In the last 10 years since the first commit of Kubernetes, venture capital funding has supported thousands of cloud-native companies. These investments have enabled successful business models to emerge around open-source technologies and generated collective market value well over $10 billion. As we look ahead to the next 10 years, the opportunity to build companies in cloud-native AI (CNAI) presents an even larger opportunity. Join us for this session, which includes a group of Partners from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Felicis Ventures, Spark Capital, and Unusual Ventures, all who have spent years investing in cloud-native companies. They'll share lessons from the biggest cloud-native investment successes and failures over the last 10 years and the opportunities for new CNAI startups that they're most excited about.
Speakers
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Wei Lien Dang

General Partner, Unusual Ventures
Wei Lien Dang is a General Partner and early-stage investor at Unusual Ventures. He focuses on open-source developer tools, data infrastructure, AI, and cybersecurity. Wei was a co-founder of StackRox, a cloud-native security company acquired by Red Hat in 2021. Before that, Wei held... Read More →
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Astasia Myers

General Partner, Felicis Ventures
Astasia Myers is a General Partner at Felicis. Before joining Felicis, she was a partner at Quiet Capital and an investor at Redpoint Ventures. Astasia focuses on early-stage investing across AI, data, open source, developer tools, and security. She has invested in LaunchDarkly, Solo.io... Read More →
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Natalie Vais

General Partner, Spark Capital
Natalie is a General Partner at Spark Capital where she invests in early-stage startups across cloud infrastructure, AI, and developer tools. She has invested in companies like Polar Signals, MotherDuck, TigerBeetle, and ElectricSQL. Before transitioning to venture capital, Natalie... Read More →
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Erik Nordlander

General Partner, GV
As a general partner at GV, Erik invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. He has backed leaders like Cockroach, Warp, and CTRL-Labs. Erik also manages GV operations in New York and leads the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:10pm - 2:45pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

2:40pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: From “Edge-Compatible” to “Edge-Native” - Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:45pm MST
Kubernetes just turned 10 and it’s already driving a paradigm shift for modern multi-environment infrastructure. With the vast majority of organizations putting it at the epicenter of their long-term strategy, more than one third are deploying at the edge, with the adoption steadily growing year on year. As use cases across various industries increase, so do the stakes in the form of challenges; security, day 2 ops, cost, that require a new breed of solutions that are born for Kubernetes at the edge. In this session, Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud's CTO and co-founder will walk us through the latest trends and data from our biggest ever research, combined with the lessons learned from working with customers in product projects.
Speakers
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Saad Malik

Spectro Cloud
Saad is passionate about building products in the areas of cloud, virtualization, containers, and distributed systems. In his fifteen years of experience, Saad has shipped multiple new products in enterprise, service provider, and consumer technologies. He is a hardcore Trekkie and... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day

2:40pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: A Tale of Three Configs: On Best Practices with OpenTofu Structuring - Ronny Orot, env0
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:50pm MST
Today, there are three primary methods to manage your OpenTofu configurations and state across different environments (dev, int, prod): using separate configurations for each environment, leveraging workspaces, and employing the backend-config flag. I

n this talk, we'll explore the pros and cons of each approach and how the new Static Evaluation feature impacts and enhances these methods.

Additionally, we'll discuss versioning of OpenTofu modules, highlighting how the Static Evaluation feature simplifies the process and brings greater flexibility to module management. Join us to gain insights into optimizing your OpenTofu workflows and maximizing the full potential of Static Evaluation.
Speakers
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Ronny Orot

Software Engineer, env0
Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu core developer team member. She has created various TACOS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 2:50pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, OpenTofu Internals

2:40pm MST

Scale the Adoption and Delivery of Backend Plugins Using the New Backstage Framework - Avantika Iyer & Emma Indal, Spotify
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
We’re over a year in since the new Backend system was rolled out, unlocking the extensibility and customisability of Backstage. Whether you’re a Backstage plugin developer or an adopter, tune in to discover the advantages of working within the new framework. For plugin authors, learn how to:
  • Extend and provide customisations for your backend plugin with extension points 
  • Break your plugin’s functionality into modules 
  • Connect these pieces back together into a fully functional plugin with plugin metadata
Designing your plugin with these features will make it easier for the community to adopt it and configure it to their own needs.

For adopters, discover how the new system drastically reduces the time to install new plugins and customise them with little to no code. With a few examples, we will illustrate how migrating to the new framework can make your backstage instance serve new functionality to your users quickly.
Speakers
avatar for Avantika Iyer

Avantika Iyer

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify
Avantika Iyer is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify, working across the stack on Backstage's open source and commercial products. She likes product engineering that is driven by customer needs and feedback and brings in a wide range of experience from small startups and multinational... Read More →
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Emma Indal

Software Engineer, Spotify
Emma Indal (she/her/hers) is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify, originally from Gothenburg, Sweden. She has been a member of the Backstage team at Spotify for the last 4.5 years.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:40pm MST

Unlocking Advanced Processing Capabilities with OpenTelemetry - Aunsh Chaudhari, Splunk & Anthony Mirabella, AWS
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
OpenTelemetry stands at the forefront of modern observability, providing a robust framework for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data in complex distributed systems. In this session, we will go over how you can benefit from the processing capabilities of OpenTelemetry, presenting an exploration of different features and their potential impact on optimizing observability. We will talk through some real world examples and best practices allowing you to control costs, reduce data volume, balance overhead, and focus on critical telemetry data. By the end of this session, you will know how to transform, filter, sample and route data effectively at scale with OpenTelemetry.
Speakers
avatar for Anthony Mirabella

Anthony Mirabella

Senior Software Dev Engineer, AWS
Anthony is a Senior SDE at Amazon Web Services working on Open Source data collection tools and services. He has contributed to the OpenTelemetry project since 2019 in a variety of roles.
avatar for Aunsh Chaudhari

Aunsh Chaudhari

Senior Product Manager, Splunk
Aunsh is a Product Manager at Splunk focused on helping users adopt Observability with OpenTelemetry. He has a keen interest in cloud native technologies and open source projects. Prior to Splunk, Aunsh worked closely with engineering and product at Shutterfly on the User Media Assets... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:40pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

2:40pm MST

Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & 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

2:45pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Sail-Operator: Making Seamless Istio Upgrades Easy - Francisco Herrera Lira & Daniel Grimm, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:45pm - 2:55pm MST
Istio provides critical capabilities for managing microservices in Kubernetes, making application upgrades safer and easier with its traffic management features. However, upgrading the Istio control plane, especially with the safer blue-green deployment model, requires substantial manual effort. We started the sail-operator project to close that gap. Building on our product operator experience, we aim to create a community-first Istio operator. While installation is the core feature, we want to explore new ways of providing value, in ways that are unique to the operator concept. And our first focus is on improving usability around control plane upgrades. The presentation will include a live demo showcasing the 2 upgrade strategies supported: InPlace and RevisionBased. Whether managing a small cluster or a large-scale deployment, attendees will learn how sail-operator helps maintain stability and continuity in their service mesh, making Istio upgrades more manageable and less risky
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Grimm

Daniel Grimm

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Daniel is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and an Istio maintainer. After wrestling with the challenges of distributed and microservice architectures throughout his career, Daniel joined Red Hat's Istio team in 2019 to solve the same problem set in the infrastructure layer... Read More →
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Francisco Herrera Lira

Senior Quality Engineer, Red Hat
With 15+ years of experience, I embarked on my cloud journey 8 years ago, transitioning from a QE role at NEC Iberica to a DevOps Engineer. Recently, I joined Red Hat as a QE for OpenShift Service Mesh, where my Istio journey continues. I gained hands-on Istio experience at NEC Iberica... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:45pm - 2:55pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

2:50pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: Accelerated Readiness with Global Compliance Patterns: The Winning Security Story - Keith Basil, SUSE
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:50pm - 2:55pm MST
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is an essential business mandate in our increasingly complex and interconnected world. While Risk Management Frameworks specify security requirements and posture required for an authorization to operate, this is just the first step. The creation of security artifacts, a tedious and time-consuming process, could take anywhere from 9-12 months. By creating a library of Risk Management Frameworks, organizations get ahead of the curve. In this session we review how treating compliance and policy as code can securely prepare enterprises for the future.
Speakers
avatar for Keith Basil

Keith Basil

GM, Edge Business Unit at SUSE, SUSE
With over twenty years of industry experience, Basil is a dynamic force in the cloud computing arena. As the General Manager of the SUSE Edge business unit, he is at the helm of product management, strategy, and marketing, with his sights set firmly on achieving global growth and... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:50pm - 2:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day

3:00pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: Scaling Kubernetes Deployment at the Edge with Argo and More - Colin Bowern, Octopus Deploy
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:00pm - 3:05pm MST
When we think about scale we usually think about handling more traffic and throughput. But when it comes to the edge we’re talking about a horizontal scaling and minimizing footprint with clarity at scale. Octopus Deploy has been helping teams deploy Kubernetes at edge scale and we’ll share what separates successful teams from teams that struggle.
Speakers
avatar for Colin Bowern

Colin Bowern

SVP of Product, Octopus Deploy, Octopus
Colin is a passionate technical leader interested in product, delivery, and engineering of modern apps and services.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:00pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day

3:20pm MST

Whoops! How Not to Accidentally Delete Everything - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
With the right setup, you can bootstrap everything using Argo CD and good GitOps practices. With that power comes the ability to delete everything at once too! In this talk we’ll do a deep dive into how app deletion works in Argo CD and real scenarios on how teams have accidentally deleted a lot more than they planned. In the worst cases, items permanently stuck in deletion can prevent recovery. We’ll set finalizers, change deletion propagation and break the application set controller to create cascading failures and, better yet, show you how to avoid accidents. Every admin and Argo CD user should attend this talk.
Speakers
avatar for Dan Garfield

Dan Garfield

Chief Open Source Officer, Codefresh
Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. As an Argo Maintainer, he works parmiarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

3:20pm MST

Decentralized Federated Machine Learning: Empowering Edge Devices with Kubernetes - Haardik Dharma, NYU & Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Embracing machine learning on edge devices brings unprecedented challenges, particularly in enhancing models over time while safeguarding data privacy. Enter Federated Machine Learning, a paradigm enabling model training across multiple edge devices or servers without data exchange. This talk elucidates the fundamentals of ML on decentralized data and highlights the disparities in conventional approaches. Leveraging Kubernetes, we demonstrate how to orchestrate Federated Machine Learning at scale, facilitating ML model training and diverse computations. A live demo showcases image classification, showcasing lower latency, reduced power consumption, and enhanced privacy—all achievable at scale with Kubernetes. Join us to revolutionize model development with privacy-preserving, Kubernetes-powered Federated Machine Learning.
Speakers
avatar for Haardik Dharma

Haardik Dharma

Developer, NYU
Haardik is currently working as a Software Developer at Civo. Before joining Civo, he worked with the Kubernetes Working Group Policy as part of the Linux Foundation Mentorship. Haardik is passionate about all things cloud-native and open-source software. When he is not working, he... Read More →
avatar for Ekansh Gupta

Ekansh Gupta

SDE, SigNoz
Ekansh is a Software Development Engineer with SigNoz, with active involvement in various open-source and cloud native communities for upwards two years now. He was previously an SDE Intern at SteamLabs. He is also a speaker for a couple of talks at PyCon, KubeCon and MozFests. Ekansh... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

3:20pm MST

The Road to Observability Everywhere at Monday.Com - David Gohberg, monday.com
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Our team at monday.com has experienced explosive growth over the past four years. We prioritized enabling tracing and observability across our distributed app. However, we did not have robust end-to-end tests. Building reliable end-to-end tests for distributed apps is hard! We decided to use OpenTelemetry tracing for end-to-end testing as well and adhering to our “Observability Everywhere” mantra! In this talk we’ll showcase how we implemented trace-driven testing with Tracetest and OpenTelemetry. This improved our feedback cycle by 50%, uncovered issues that traditional tests missed and decreased test creation time by 90%! Attendees will also learn how to apply this new approach to various use-cases, such as API tests, browser end-to-end testing and even testing in production. Trace-driven testing works by leveraging the work already invested in instrumenting our systems via distributed tracing. Sounds fun? Join me to learn how we did it at monday.com!
Speakers
avatar for David Gohberg

David Gohberg

Senior Software Engineer, monday.com
David Gohberg is a Senior Software Engineer at monday.com where he works on distributed trace testing while building the best CRM on the planet. Before that, he worked at Dropbox where he improved tracing capabilities in high scale workloads. He has worked across the stack, from embedded... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:20pm - 3:45pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

3:55pm MST

Introducing Dagger Modules: Open Source CI/CD Building Blocks You Already Know How to Write - Jeremy Adams, Dagger
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
You need CI that can adapt as fast as the apps you’re writing. But often CI ends up being a bottleneck. For one CI PR you need to learn proprietary YAML syntax (every CI different) and how to work around its limitations conditionals, loops, functions, variables, ...which would be effortless if it was just a real programming language that you already know. You find yourself writing additional scripts and hacks to bring the logic to local dev. Enter the OSS Dagger project that brings CI as code (TypeScript, Go, Python). In this talk, I’ll use Dagger to show how to build and share reusable CI/CD modules that can be written in any language and "just work" together. This talk will be good for developers/platform engineers or anyone else that needs a lightweight, code-based CI platform that can run locally and in any CI. If you’re technically curious, you should be able to build and share a module right after the talk (or maybe during!).
Speakers
avatar for Jeremy Adams

Jeremy Adams

Ecosystem, Dagger
Jeremy is a senior leader with both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. Through technical/business roles at Dagger, GitHub, Twistlock, and Puppet, Jeremy has both zoomed in and zoomed out a lot, acquiring an... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

3:55pm MST

Ephemeral Environment Practices - the Good, Bad, and Ugly - Luke Philips & David Grizzanti, The New York Times
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native technologies, ephemeral environments have become critical for testing, development, and continuous integration. These temporary environments provide advantages like increased developer productivity, isolation, and scalability, but they also present challenges.

In this session, we’ll explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of ephemeral environment practices:
  • The Good: Enhancing CI/CD pipelines, improving productivity, and providing robust testing environments. 
  • The Bad: Managing state, ensuring consistency, and handling resource constraints.
  • The Ugly: Real-world failures and lessons learned, including using the Argo Pull Request generator and implementing ephemeral environments at scale.
We’ll demonstrate best practices for leveraging Argo CD to manage ephemeral environments, automate creation and teardown, use ApplicationSets and GitOps workflows for consistency, and integrate ephemeral environments into your deployment strategy.
Speakers
avatar for David Grizzanti

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 →
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Luke Philips

Staff Software Engineer, The New York Times Company
Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

3:55pm MST

Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
As a Platform Engineer, your team just completed a technical review and decided that your organization needs to adopt Backstage. What do you do on the day one, in the first week and the first month? Do you start by moving all of your applications from your CMDB into the Catalog, or do you sync with your HRIS system to bring Users and Groups first? Even though no two Developer Portal in different organizations look the same, there are a lot of commonalities in the success stories. And the red flags leading up to a humble but unsuccessful adoption are also well known. In this session, we'll explore what does that paved path to Backstage adoption look like in 2024. What are some of the pitfalls to look out for, the challenges to expect for and the mitigation path. What are the different responsibles shared across different platform teams, engineering leaders and team leads. We'll explore both the cultural and the technical side of the adoption and some of the success stories out there.
Speakers
avatar for Himanshu Mishra

Himanshu Mishra

Staff Product Manager, Harness
PM responsible for Harness IDP, based on Backstage. Previously Backstage Core Team at Spotify as an Engineer and DevRel for Backstage Open Source. Twitter/GitHub: @OrkoHunter
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

3:55pm MST

Migrating a Monolith to Kubernetes with Istio: Our Journey at Adobe - Edward Adasiak & Rahul Tripathi, Adobe
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Istio excels with microservices but implementing it as a service mesh for a newly containerized legacy monolith application comes with its own set of challenges. In this session, we will take you through our journey of migrating a monolithic application to Kubernetes, where Istio plays a crucial role as the service mesh. We'll delve into the intricacies of this migration, sharing the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned along the way. You'll gain insights into how we operate Istio service mesh in Adobe's Document Cloud and discover common yet critical pitfalls. Our discussion will cover issues ranging from scalability to upgrades, providing you with valuable knowledge to navigate similar migrations in your projects. By the end of this talk, you will have a clear understanding of the complexities involved and be better equipped to handle the transition of monolithic applications to Kubernetes using Istio.
Speakers
avatar for Edward Adasiak

Edward Adasiak

Lead Cloud Engineer, Adobe
Edward is a Lead Cloud Engineer at Adobe in the Developer Platforms organization focusing on cloud infrastructure provisioning and service mesh implementations. His journey at Adobe started with the Macromedia acquisition, along the way contributing to multiple cloud-based services... Read More →
avatar for Rahul Tripathi

Rahul Tripathi

Senior Cloud Engineer, Adobe
Rahul is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Adobe in the Developer Platforms organization focusing on cloud infrastructure provisioning and service mesh implementations.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

3:55pm MST

Edge DC Energy Efficiency: A K8s Workload Allocation Optimizer with Generic Server Power Model - Ying-Feng Hsu, Osaka University
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Have you ever considered having over 50% power savings for edge data centers with inter-container orchestration? Our session introduces a K8s-compatible Workload Allocation Optimizer (WAO) that utilizes a generic power consumption model for optimal deployment and scalability across cloud, edge, and MEC orchestration. WAO is designed to continuously process thousands of operational telemetry and adapt to changing conditions, and its optimization process significantly reduces energy consumption at the edge. The presentation will highlight a proof-of-concept case study featuring a real-world deployment of over 200+ servers. It will show how WAO's scalable cloud/edge orchestration capabilities and its efficacy as an energy-saving solution for various edge computing environments. Explore our GitHub repository to implement sustainable data center operations and know that the K8s-WAO can boost your energy efficiency while maintaining optimal performance in green edge computing.
Speakers
avatar for Ying-Feng Hsu

Ying-Feng Hsu

Associate professor, Osaka University
Ying-Feng Hsu is an associate professor at the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University. His research interests include machine learning and cloud computing, with a special focus on data center power consumption optimization. He has been serving as a TPC member for various international... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day, Machine Learning

3:55pm MST

Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! - Vijay Samuel & Sandeep Raveesh, eBay
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Distributed tracing is hard! That is a statement that most folks would agree too. At large organizations like eBay where there are 1000s of microservices and call chains that have 100s or even 1000s of spans, the complexity to adopt tracing is fairly high. Over the course of the last couple of years, we have traveled far in getting to a state where most applications are instrumented for tracing. However, the journey has numerous hurdles that we have had to cross. This talk discusses, a solid approach we took with the help of Open Telemetry, how it jump started our adoption but at the same time, how we had to do more to get much closer to the finish line.

Key points that we would discuss include:
  • Our strategy to deliver instrumentation to all applications 
  • Challenges in context propagation
  • Doing more than what open telemetry alone provides
  • Experiences required to make tracing useful
  • Focus for the future
Speakers
avatar for Sandeep Raveesh

Sandeep Raveesh

Observability Tech Lead, eBay
Sandeep is a lead software engineer at eBay, specializing in building and maintaining the observability platform.
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Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
Vijay Samuel works with eBay's observability platform as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video games... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

3:55pm MST

Panel: Ask the Devs! - Ronny Orot & Arel Rabinowitz, env0; Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift & Mey Beisaron, Forter & International Tech
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:30pm MST
The core developers in attendance will introduce themselves and briefly talk about their experience working on OpenTofu. We will then open the floor for questions related to all aspects of OpenTofu development.
Speakers
avatar for Mey Beisaron

Mey Beisaron

Senior Platform Engineer, Forter
Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does. As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure. Today Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer... Read More →
AR

Arel Rabinowitz

Principal Engineer, env0
Has been part of the industry for more than a decade, and has taken part in many different engineering roles.Currently working as a Principal Engineer in env0, and as a core team member of OpenTofu. 
avatar for Ronny Orot

Ronny Orot

Software Engineer, env0
Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu core developer team member. She has created various TACOS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.
avatar for Christian Mesh

Christian Mesh

Core Engineer and Tech Lead, OpenTofu, sponsored by SpaceLift
With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day, OpenTofu Internals

4:55pm MST

Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be? - Emily Omier, Omier Consulting; William Morgan, Buoyant; Tyler Jewell, Lightbend; Mark Fussell, Diagrid & Avi Press, Scarf
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
The CNCF hosts a wide variety of open source projects, not just in functionality but in the nature of the maintainers and funders behind the project. Some projects are backed by multiple large companies, including public companies with trillion-dollar market caps. Some are backed by single small startups with a small fraction of the resources. And some projects fall somewhere in between. But all share one fact: the vast majority of contributions are done by paid maintainers.
For startups in the CNCF ecosystem, is it possible to be successful delivering a CNCF open source project? Or is this strategy a fundamentally un-monetizable one? And from the perspective of the cloud native community, is it actually important for startups to be successful in this community? Or should the CNCF primarily focus on projects that are more like Kubernetes itself—backed by well-established companies with the resources and longevity to keep their projects afloat indefinitely?
Join this panel to hear from startup founders, project maintainers, and others in the thick of the struggle between commercialization and open source, between paying maintainers and appealing to the open source.
Speakers
avatar for Avi Press

Avi Press

Founder & CEO, Scarf
Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder/CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem... Read More →
avatar for Emily Omier

Emily Omier

Consultant, Emily Omier Consulting
Emily Omier is a positioning consultant who helps open source startups accelerate revenue and community growth by clarifying the project and product's market category, unique value in the market and target user audience. She hosts The Business of Open Source podcast and writes a blog... Read More →
avatar for William Morgan

William Morgan

Linkerd Director, Buoyant CEO, Buoyant
William is a director on the Linkerd project and the co-founder and CEO of Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd. Prior to Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, a software engineer at Powerset, Microsoft, and Adap.tv, a research scientist at MITRE. He holds an MS in computer... Read More →
avatar for Mark Fussell

Mark Fussell

CEO, Diagrid
CEO of Diagrid, a developer focused startup. Leader with proven track record of building innovative computing platforms, running large scale, cloud services, building OSS communities and starting new businesses. I have over 30 years of experience building go-to-market strategies... Read More →
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Tyler Jewell

CEO, Akka
Tyler is the CEO of Akka.He is a 3-time DevEx CEO previously leading:WSO2 (acq. by EQT)Codenvy (acq. by RedHat)You can subscribe to his Substack: The Developer-Led Landscape, a public database of 1600 DevOps companies... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: LLM-Driven Applications: Intro to LLM Agents in Kubernetes - Calum Murray, University of Toronto
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Over the past year, there has been a lot of important work and discussions around how to run Large Language Models (LLMs) on top of Kubernetes. But what happens once you have your LLM running in your cluster? How can you build an application around your LLM, where the LLM can act as an agent and call out to various services you have deployed in your cluster to solve complex tasks that would otherwise cause the LLM to hallucinate? Is there a way to do this without making changes to the services and deployments already in your cluster? In this talk I will be exploring what an LLM agent is and how you build an agent that will call out to your services. I will show this with a demo of an LLM agent running in a kubernetes cluster that is able to automatically detect new tools and agents deployed to the cluster and coordinate them to complete complex tasks in a conversation with the user.
Speakers
avatar for Calum Murray

Calum Murray

Knative Eventing Maintainer and UX Lead, University of Toronto, Canada
I'm a software engineer, and I love building cool things in open source. I like to seek out the most interesting and challenging problems which I think will have a large impact, and build creative solutions to them. I also like to share my passion for open source with others, and... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Global Tenant Management Using Argo - Alex Van Boxel, Collibra
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
For the Collibra data intelligence platform, a tenant is a combination of applications provisioned on a mixture of virtual machines and single—and multi-tenant Kubernetes services. This combination makes tenant lifecycle management non-trivial. In this session, we’ll explore using Argo Events, Workflows, and CD to build a global tenant management system. The system supports tenant lifecycle events like create, update, suspend, backup, and restore across various application types and infrastructure without exposing Argo-specific constructs to the application teams. This abstraction, called bridged workflows, allows teams to hook into the lifecycles in a simple Kubernetes native way, providing operations and developers the same simple participation in the global tenant management lifecycle. The case study will give you ideas for building a global tenant management system using the Argo suite.
Speakers
avatar for Alex Van Boxel

Alex Van Boxel

Principal Systems Architect, Collibra
Alex Van Boxel is a Principal System Architect at Collibra. With an engineering background in R&D at Alcatel-Lucent, Progress Software, and Veepee, he loves to focus on the fundamental building blocks of the software industry. That means reading, understanding, and contributing to... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Ranking Argo CD Settings in a Tier List - Gerald Nunn, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Argo CD has a lot of settings and this has only proliferated in each new release of Argo CD. Some settings and values are universally useful and should always be enabled while others are only needed for very specific niche use cases. In this talk we will review many of these settings and values using the always fun and informative concept of the Tier List. Tiers for the settings/values include “Make this the default”, “Almost always useful”, “Good in places”, “Meh?” and finally “Nobody needs this”. Audience participation will be encouraged in this session with audience members helping to rank settings and values by show of hands.
Speakers
avatar for Gerald Nunn

Gerald Nunn

GitOps Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat
Gerald Nunn is the GitOps Technical Marketing Manager for Red Hat, in this role he evangilizes GitOps and assists Red Hat customers with their GitOps journey. Gerald lives in Victoria, BC with his wife, son and three slightly annoying cats.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications - Will Tsai & Ryan Nowak, Microsoft
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
When we set out to build a developer dashboard to accompany the Radius application platform, we were very impressed with how much of an accelerator Backstage proved to be. Our goal was to build a UI so that users could interact with their deployed applications and environments. Since we're not frontend experts, we needed a framework that allows us to build a dashboard with minimal effort, is customizable, and offers an ecosystem of extensibility--all of which Backstage provides. Moreover, the Software Catalog and Software Templates core plugins in Backstage align well with the application-centric development model that Radius aims to provide, making it a natural choice for building the Radius Dashboard. This talk will explore how the team leveraged the Backstage platform to accelerate development of the Radius Dashboard, and how the plugin implementations of the Radius application graph visualizations paves the way for deeper integrations within the Backstage ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Ryan Nowak

Ryan Nowak

Incubations Architect, Microsoft
Ryan is an architect working on open-source projects from the Azure CTO's office. He's passionate about designing software for humans, incubating risky ideas, releasing them in open-source so everyone can benefit. At Microsoft, he's had a 15+ year career building developer-centric... Read More →
avatar for Will Tsai

Will Tsai

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
Will Tsai is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, where he works in the Azure Incubations team building open-source projects that address developer challenges in the cloud-native space. Before joining Microsoft, Will held various product and program management roles at Amazon... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Making IoT Simple: Leveraging Akri & Nephio in a Hybrid Cloud Environment - Vitumbiko Mafeni, Internet Infra System Research Center - IISTRC
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
When it comes to IoT, many engineers encounter challenges in automating infrastructure provisioning, deploying IoT applications across multiple sites, and managing thousands of IoT devices spread across different geographic locations. The complexity and dynamic nature of IoT ecosystems, characterized by diverse protocols and ever-changing statuses, makes it overwhelming. Imagine an automated approach that seamlessly deploys and configures these devices in real-time. GitOps has emerged as a leading trend to facilitate collaboration, configuration, and deployment of intricate and dynamic applications. Join us for this session where we present our solution for deploying dynamic IoT applications over a Private 5G network in a hybrid cloud environment. This session will give details on how the integration of CNCF projects such as Nephio, and Akri can transform your IoT management through the adoption of GitOps principles.
Speakers
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Vitumbiko Mafeni

Internet Infra System Research Center - IISTRC
I am a researcher at the Internet Infra System Research Center in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on Edge Computing and 5G. Recently, I have been actively participating, discussing and testing Nephio and Project-Flotta. My current emphasis is on the IoT sector, and I am eager to participate... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:00pm - 5:10pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

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

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Searching for Serverless Candidates in the Jungle of Microservices - Yash Bhatnagar, Google
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Everyone wants a judicial use of resources - and serverless computing makes it happen by limiting the idle resources. While services with clear functional use cases are developed as one, more often than not such benefits are not clear - such as unclear or changing application usage patterns. Similarly several historical services could now be suited for serverless functions based on they way they are actually used. However they are rarely investigated because their impact remains opaque - a lack of cost/performance benefits and whether re-architecture effort is justified. In this talk, the Yash will showcase a case study about how they went researching for serverless candidates in their real world systems and how surprising the results were. He will also showcase the impact and key learnings - how turning even lightweight microservices into serverless functions helped saved significantly on infra costs AND, also improving the peak load performance of several unrelated services!
Speakers
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Yash Bhatnagar

Software Engineer, Google
Yash is working with Google as Software Engineer, and has 8 years of industrial experience with cloud architectures and micro-service development across Google and VMware. He is been a speaker at multiple international conferences such as Kubernetes Forums and Serverless Practitioners... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Orchestrating Scalable DAGs on Argo Workflows Using Fabric8s - Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz & Shivay Lamba, Couchbase
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Argo Workflows, a K-native DAG-style workflow engine for Kubernetes, is a powerful tool for orchestrating complex workflows. Additionally Java is the most popular language for developers in complex organisations. However, using Argo with the Argo Java SDK can be challenging due to limited examples and unclear documentation. This session aims to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on interacting with Argo Workflows using Fabric8’s Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) in Java. Argo Workflows are implemented as 'Custom Resources' in Kubernetes. By leveraging the Fabric8 library’s Custom Resource Definitions, developers can seamlessly interact with Argo Workflows through the Kubernetes API. Join us to learn how to harness the power of Argo Workflows in Java, simplifying your workflow management on Kubernetes.
Speakers
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Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, Couchbase
Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development. He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked... Read More →
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Ekansh Gupta

SDE, SigNoz
Ekansh is a Software Development Engineer with SigNoz, with active involvement in various open-source and cloud native communities for upwards two years now. He was previously an SDE Intern at SteamLabs. He is also a speaker for a couple of talks at PyCon, KubeCon and MozFests. Ekansh... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon, Scalability
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants - Lizzie Salita, Booz Allen Hamilton
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
In 1914, Booz Allen Hamilton pioneered the field of management consulting. Today, we are trusted as the largest provider of AI to the federal government. Our goal is to provide technically differentiated solutions that solve complex client problems at scale, and to do that, we are championing a culture of internal reuse. This includes applying InnerSource principles, through a Backstage developer portal, to improve velocity, quality, and DevEx for a technical workforce of 14,000. InnerSource principles of transparency and self-service can be at odds with corporate hierarchy, program silos due to varied client contracts, and the “need to know” mindset required when handling classified information. To get the best of both worlds, our Backstage team has learned to lean into that tension and deploy change management techniques to build community and rally support for new ways of working. This session will explore corporate barriers to Backstage adoption and lessons learned along the way.
Speakers
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Lizzie Salita

Chief Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Lizzie Salita is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Chief Technology Office, where she serves as Product Owner for the company’s Backstage developer portal and as a strategist focused on enhancing developer experience and driving technical reuse across the company. With... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: No-Code Migration of Workloads to Retail Edge for Lowest Costs and Best Performance - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha & Ari Weil, Akamai
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
This presentation will introduces a solution for "gradually" migrating retail web front ends and other retail workloads from centralized clouds to the K8s platform on the edge using KubeSlice, a migration tool specifically tailored for "seamless and gradual migrations." This innovative approach addresses key retail enterprise concerns:
  • How to keep the connectivity with managed services in hyperscaler clouds and move retail workloads to he edge that need the highest performance 
  • Seamless multicloud migration framework requiring no code changes, minimizing downtime 
  • Immediate start of the migration process 
  • Leveraging edge compute alongside CDN for faster page loads and reduced latency and the best performance
Join us at KubeCon to explore how the future of retail edge is being defined with K8s on the edge, compute , a CDN network and a multicloud connectivity tool.
Speakers
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Ari Weil

Vice President Cloud Product Marketing, Akamai
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Olyvia Rakshit

VP Product and Marketing, Avesha
Olyvia Rakshit, VP of Product Marketing and Product(UX) in Avesha has a track record in building innovative products as an entrepreneur and a product lead in large organizations. (EMC/RSA, ComicFlix). Currently Olyvia is passionate about go-to-market and building simplified user journeys... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Migration Worst Case Scenarios - Bill Hineline, Chronosphere
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Do you remember the first observability migration you shepherded? I do…and not because it went smoothly. Now that I have some distance from this disaster I can share the mistakes I made from hazy requirements to evaluate platforms to issues interpreting vendor pricing plans and underestimating the importance of developer enablement. The challenges were endless and while the migration did eventually finish I would do almost everything differently if I could go back in time. Let my mistakes guide you away from a messy migration by learning what NOT to do when migrating observability platforms.
Speakers
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Bill Hineline

Field CTO, Chronosphere
Bill Hineline, Field CTO, joins Chronosphere after 17 years with United Airlines and brings a wealth of cross-functional expertise to his position. Over the last 24 years in the airline industry, he held a variety of leadership roles, ranging from IT operations and engineering to... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:15pm - 5:25pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

5:25pm MST

AppDeveloperCon | Closing Remarks - Evan Anderson, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Evan Anderson

Software Engineer, Stacklok
Co-founder and maintainer on Knative project. Member of sigstore-oncall. Previously worked on Google Compute Engine and Serverless (App Engine, Functions) and in SRE. Principal engineer at Stacklok. Ex-Google, ex-VMware. Author of Building Serverless Applications on Knative by O'Reilly... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G
  AppDeveloperCon

5:25pm MST

ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Christian Hernandez, Event Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Christian Hernandez

Head of Community, Akuity, Inc
Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

5:25pm MST

ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Dan Garfield, Event Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Dan Garfield

Chief Open Source Officer, Codefresh
Dan Garfield is the Co-founder and Chief Open Source Officer of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo. As an Argo Maintainer, he works parmiarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD
  ArgoCon
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Event + Breaks ArgoCon

5:25pm MST

BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Bryan Landes, Event Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Bryan Landes

Sr. Global Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H
  BackstageCon

5:25pm MST

Cilium + eBPF Day | Closing Remarks - Bill Mulligan, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Bill Mulligan

Community, Isovalent at Cisco
Bill Mulligan is a cloud native pollinator and community builder. He has given talks, written articles, and appeared on podcasts on a wide range of topics around cloud native. While at CNCF he restarted the Kubernetes Community Day program. He is currently at Isovalent growing the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B
  Cilium + eBPF Day

5:25pm MST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Ricardo Rocha

Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN
Ricardo leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training... Read More →
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Amber Graner

product owner
I’m a seasoned professional with a rich history in open source communities–Ubuntu, Linaro, Open Compute Project Foundation, Zeek, Kubeflow and more. I’m known for my leadership skills and commitment to inclusivity. I served as an all-source intelligence analyst in the US Army... Read More →
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Rajas Kakodkar

Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom | Tech Lead CNCF TAG Runtime, Broadcom
Rajas is a staff software engineer at Broadcom and a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Runtime. He is actively involved in the AI working group in the CNCF. He is a Kubernetes contributor and has been a maintainer of the Kube Proxy Next Gen Project. He has also served... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

5:25pm MST

Istio Day | Closing Remarks - Iris Ding & Keith Mattix, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Keith Mattix

Senior Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft
Keith Mattix is an Engineering Lead at Microsoft focused on Istio, Gateway API, and other networking projects.
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Iris Ding

Cloud software architect, Intel
Iris Ding is a cloud software architect at Intel and has a rich background in open source development, cloud computing, Generative AI(GenAI), middleware development and design. Her current focus is intersection of GenAI and cloud computing and is leading development for Open Platform... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
  Istio Day

5:25pm MST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks - Mars Toktonaliev, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
MT

Mars Toktonaliev

Sr System Engineer, KGPCo
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A
  Kubernetes on Edge Day

5:25pm MST

Observability Day | Closing Remarks - Anna Kapuscinska, Austin Parker & Eduardo Silva, Program Co-Chairs
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Anna Kapuscinska

Anna Kapuscinska

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco
Anna is a software engineer at Isovalent, focusing on eBPF-based observability and security. Her previous roles span the industry: she wore both developer and SRE hats, and worked in AdTech, FinTech, public healthcare, end-user SaaS company and a hosting provider. On good weather... Read More →
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Austin Parker

Director of Open Source, honeycomb.io
Austin is a founding member of the OpenTelemetry project and sits on its governance committee. In addition, he's written two books on observability; Distributed Tracing in Practice and Learning OpenTelemetry. He is the Director of Open Source at honeycomb.io, helping to define the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E
  Observability Day

5:25pm MST

OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Speakers
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Sebastian Stadil

OpenTofu Core Contributor, OpenTofu
Sebastian Stadil has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 8000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:25pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D
  OpenTofu Day

5:30pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Closing Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 5:35pm MST
Speakers
avatar for Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Author, Advisor, and Open Source Contributor
Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 5:30pm - 5:35pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A
  Cloud Native StartupFest

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
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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
 

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