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9:40am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Keeping the Show Running: Backstage Maintenance from a Platform Engineer's Lens - Paul Schultz, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:40am - 9:50am MST
For developers, Backstage is a one-stop shop for all their software development needs. But what goes on behind the scenes to keep this platform humming? This talk delves into the intricacies of maintaining Backstage as a downstream product from the eyes of a platform engineer. Explore challenges like navigating dependency minefields and battling npm issues. Discover strategies for stability, including version pinning and automated updates with Renovate. Learn the art of monitoring and fortifying against security vulnerabilities. Gain insights and tools to conquer backstage maintenance, whether you're a seasoned engineer or a curious bystander. This presentation offers a glimpse into the backstage of Backstage, equipping you with invaluable insights for smooth operations.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Schultz

Paul Schultz

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Hi! I'm Paul Schultz, a Software Engineer at Red Hat. I started as an intern in 2021 and now work on open-source projects like Devfile and Backstage. As engineer for Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage), I tackle maintenance challenges – dependencies, version control, automated... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:40am - 9:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

9:45am MST

Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature - Meha Bhalodiya, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
In the dynamic world of software development, how do you ensure quality without compromising speed? And how OpenFeature empower QA teams to elevate their testing game? "Test Smarter, Not Harder: QA Enhancements with OpenFeature" delves into the revolutionary ways OpenFeature enhances your QA processes, allowing teams to achieve robust, bug-free releases exploring how feature flags when integrated with OpenFeature, reduce the complexity of environment management, and enable more granular control over feature deployments. Attendees will gain insights into setting up effective feature flagging strategies and leveraging OpenFeature's capabilities to minimize risk and maximize quality. Whether you're a QA engineer, developer, or project manager, this talk will equip you with the tools and knowledge to enhance your QA processes, delivering high-quality software faster and with greater confidence. Embrace the future of QA with OpenFeature and start testing smarter, not harder.
Speakers
avatar for Meha Bhalodiya

Meha Bhalodiya

Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat
A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team. Apart from the full-time job, I also participate in upstream community initiatives, such as being a Branch Manager in v1.31, a CI Signal Lead in Kubernetes Release v1.28 (been a shadow... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 9:45am - 10:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

10:15am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mastering Myself Before Mastering Kyverno - Lessons Learned from Authoring My First Course - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:25am MST
They say the best way to learn is by teaching. Back in college, I was the go-to guy for my friends, breaking down complex concepts that helped them ace their exams. Little did I know that those late-night dorm sessions were preparing me for a future course author. Fast-forward to 2024, I co-authored the Mastering Kubernetes Security with Kyverno course for The Linux Foundation. It was my first time creating a cloud native course for students and professionals. In this talk, I’ll share my experience of grappling with my knowledge gaps and shed light on the process of building a course. I’ll also focus on things that I missed and learned along the way—spending countless hours building real-world hands-on examples and refining the text so that everyone can understand it. Join me in this talk to learn how to build a course, strategies for content creation, how to manage imposter syndrome, and how to deliver a great learning experience from a first-time course creator.
Speakers
avatar for Atulpriya Sharma

Atulpriya Sharma

Co-Chair Platforms-WG, TAG - App Delivery | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Manual tester turned developer advocate focusing on open source, cloud native technologies. I help organizations and their developers adopt related technologies by creating helpful and impactful content. My current interest areas at Platform Engineering and AIOps. I'm also a CNCF... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 10:15am - 10:25am MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

11:15am MST

Event Discovery for Kubernetes Applications - Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Struggling to manage event discovery in your organization? Are your developers wasting valuable time searching for and understanding event types through manual methods or outdated documentation? In this session, we'll explore the inefficiencies associated with relying on manual or documentation-based methods. Through practical examples, we'll demonstrate how Knative Eventing's dynamic and automated event discovery features streamline this process, saving developers time and ensuring a clear understanding of available events, allowing your applications and developers to effortlessly find and react to relevant event types.
Speakers
avatar for Pierangelo Di Pilato

Pierangelo Di Pilato

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Pierangelo is a principal software engineer at Red Hat. He leads the Knative Eventing Working Group and has a passion for data, event-driven and streaming systems.
avatar for Christoph Stäbler

Christoph Stäbler

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Christoph is a Software Developer at Red Hat and an active contributor to the Knative project. He specializes in serverless technologies with a focus on event-based architectures and the further development of Knative Eventing.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

11:15am MST

Simplifying OpenTelemetry with Configuration - Alex Boten, Honeycomb & Jack Berg, New Relic
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Learning how to use a new tool, and using it well enough to get value out of it quickly is really important. Configuring OpenTelemetry SDKs and instrumentation is essential, but programmatic configuration is cumbersome and environment variables are limited. OpenTelemetry file configuration is the community’s next generation config tool. Building on the original flattened environment variable based scheme, file configuration introduces tooling for configuring SDKs and instrumentation which accommodates the complexities of how people use OpenTelemetry in practice.

Come learn about:
  • What the OpenTelemetry Configuration Schema is and why it exists. 
  • How language agnostic file configuration provides OpenTelemetry adopters the tools needed to support complex scenarios.
  • How various components in OpenTelemetry have adopted the configuration schema.
  • Using a single configuration to configure OpenTelemetry SDKs in multiple languages and the Collector.
Speakers
avatar for Jack Berg

Jack Berg

Software Engineer, New Relic
I'm a member of OpenTelemetry Technical Committee and maintainer of OpenTelemetry Java. I've worked on a lot of components in OpenTelemetry, with an emphasis in metrics, logging, and configuration.
avatar for Alex Boten

Alex Boten

Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb
Alex Boten is a staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape by mashing keyboards. From building core network infrastructure to mobile client applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 11:15am - 11:40am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

11:30am MST

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

Erica Hughberg

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

12:40pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enabling Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Argo Workflows - Ashlyn Chapman, Cisco
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:40pm - 12:50pm MST
IT departments adopt hybrid cloud strategies to leverage the strengths of multiple public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure, while also maintaining private on-prem solutions to meet stringent security and regulatory compliance requirements. The challenge, however, lies in managing these diverse infrastructures consistently and efficiently. Complex hybrid environments leads to increased operational costs, security vulnerabilities, and a tangled web of provider-specific management tools that can overwhelm even the most seasoned IT teams. Support becomes fragmented, and the promise of a seamless, agile infrastructure seems out of reach. This session will explore how Argo Workflows can serve as the linchpin in a cloud-agnostic infrastructure strategy, enabling teams to manage resources across platforms and providers with unparalleled ease.
Speakers
avatar for Ashlyn Chapman

Ashlyn Chapman

Software Engineer, Cisco
Ashlyn Chapman is a software engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and DevOps. She is committed to reducing resource utilization, improving security, and enhancing deployment efficiency. Adept at collaborating across teams to drive impactful solutions, resulting... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 12:40pm - 12:50pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon, Software Delivery

1:10pm MST

Data Science Workflows Made Easy: Python-Powered Argo for Your Organization - Elliot Gunton, Pipekit Inc. & Flaviu Vadan, Xaira Therapeutics
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:10pm - 1:35pm MST
Get ready to supercharge your data science workflow development using the power of Hera, the versatile Python SDK for Argo Workflows.
  • Python for Everything: Learn how Hera lets you focus on your business logic and seamlessly integrate it into Argo Workflows – all within your favorite Python environment.
  • Effortless Argo with Hera: Use Hera to craft Argo Workflows with ease using simple Python code that handles common tasks such as template parameters, passing data, and fan-out.
  • Beyond the Basics: We'll explore how Hera provides a base for your organization to build on, using its advanced capabilities, including pre-build hooks, that empower you to configure Hera for your organization's specific needs.
  • Boost your CICD: Learn best practices to build Python workflows efficiently with Hera. Automate developer setups and recurring CICD tasks. 
By the end of this talk, you'll be equipped to supercharge your Argo Workflows with Hera to unlock a new level of automation and efficiency!
Speakers
avatar for Elliot Gunton

Elliot Gunton

Senior Software Engineer, Pipekit Inc
Elliot is a passionate maintainer of Hera, the Python SDK for Argo Workflows. At Pipekit, he is helping to bring scalable data pipelines to the Python world, unlocking the full potential of Argo Workflows for data scientists. Previously, at Bloomberg, Elliot supported Machine Learning... Read More →
avatar for Flaviu Vadan

Flaviu Vadan

Senior Software Engineer, Xaira Therapeutics
TBD
Tuesday November 12, 2024 1:10pm - 1:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon, Data Processing

2:05pm MST

Streamlining Cloud-Native Development: Simplifying Dependencies and Testing with Microcks - Laurent Broudoux, Microcks & Daniel Oh, Red Hat
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
You’re starting with business application development but soon realize that pulling and setting up dependencies is daunting. Because you have databases, cloud services but also a lot of 3rd party APIs! What’s the solution? “Remolocal” (remote + local) env are complex and costly to manage. CI/CD is there for automating testing and deployment, but the feedback loop is longer - not a substitute for local inner-loop processes. Luckily, modern cloud-native application stacks bring back Developer Joy! CNCF’s Microcks project integrates nicely with Testcontainers to provide mocking, simulation, and continuous contract testing to guarantee the conformance of your work, giving you a very high level of confidence! In this session, we’ll present how to ease your life when setting up your development environment and testing your APIs! We will also share end-user stories about how Microcks increases developer productivity for efficient cloud-native Java development inner-loop!
Speakers
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lbroudoux

Microcks co-founder, Microcks
Laurent is a Cloud-Native Architecture expert and Enterprise Integration problem lover. He is the founder and lead developer of the Microcks.io open source project: a Kubernetes-native tool for API mocking and testing. For this, he is using his 10+ years experience as an architect... Read More →
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 →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

2:05pm MST

Centralized Compliance: Automated Governance Inside of Backstage Developer Portals - Amber Beasley & Daniel Hagen, Liatrio
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
While Backstage already excels at displaying information about repositories registered as components, this talk will explore how to enhance Backstage by integrating Automated Governance results into the repository information. With these results readily accessible, you can easily determine which releases are passing or failing the Automated Governance policies and quickly identify the reasons for any failures at a glance. We will cover the development and use of reusable custom plugins and open-source libraries for Backstage to seamlessly display Automated Governance results. This integration not only improves visibility into the compliance status of your releases but also helps address future releases to ensure they meet the required policies.
Speakers
avatar for Amber Beasley

Amber Beasley

Senior DevOps Engineer, Liatrio
Amber is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Liatrio, specializing in DevOps workflow optimization, automation, and team dynamics to streamline software development processes. Amber excels in implementing solutions across diverse platforms and cloud environments, empowering teams to achieve... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Hagen

Daniel Hagen

Senior DevOps Engineer, Liatrio
Daniel works at Liatrio working with Fortune 100 clients to develop platforms and modernize applications. As an owner of numerous industry and project management certifications, Daniel contributes to more than 20 Open Source libraries, and systems images. In addition, he is highly... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H

2:55pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Migrating a Client onto OpenTofu for Cost + Speed - Matt Gowie, Masterpoint
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:05pm MST
Come learn about an exciting OpenTofu migration that my team and I executed on for one of our client's. We migrated our client, Power Digital Marketing, off of Terraform and Terraform Cloud and onto OpenTofu and Spacelift. This successful migration has some wildly successful outcomes with a 10x reduction in upcoming costs and a 10x decrease in the time it took for creating new client infrastructure through Power Digital's TF based process.

This talk will help attendees understand the benefits of OpenTofu, how to think about migrating, showcase a real-life example of Tofu in the wild, and further solidify that OpenTofu can be used successfully in production for big, mission-critical workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Matt Gowie

Matt Gowie

CEO/CTO, Masterpoint
Matt Gowie is the CEO of Masterpoint, a consulting firm focused on helping engineering orgs get the most out of their IaC. Matt has over a dozen years of experience in the tech ecosystem, with a passion for all things Terraform and OpenTofu. He is an active member of the community... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 2:55pm - 3:05pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

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

3:55pm MST

Inference on Streaming Data at Scale at Intuit - Sri Harsha Yayi & Vigith Maurice, Intuit
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
At Intuit, ML teams faced challenges with processing and running inference on high throughput streaming data. Connecting to various messaging systems like Kafka, Pulsar, and SQS proved to be a time-consuming and intricate process. Moreover, our ML teams required the ability to perform intermediate processing and execute inference as part of their workflows. To further complicate, scaling the processing and inference based on the volume of events introduced additional challenges. Based on challenges, we created Numaflow, a K8s native open-source platform for scalable event processing. It simplifies connecting to event sources, enables teams to do event processing and inference on streaming data without a learning curve, and integrates seamlessly with existing systems. This talk is for ML engineers, data scientists, and those interested in asynchronous inference on streaming data. We'll show how Numaflow overcomes obstacles and streamlines inference on streaming data
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 →
avatar for Sri Harsha Yayi

Sri Harsha Yayi

Product Manager, Intuit
Sri Harsha Yayi is a Product Manager at Intuit, where he primarily focuses on the company's Modern SaaS Kubernetes platform, specifically within the event-driven systems domain. He is the PM for Numaflow, an open-source, Kubernetes native platform designed for the development of event-driven... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 3:55pm - 4:20pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A

4:25pm MST

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

Viktor Farcic

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

4:30pm MST

Demystifying Argo Events: An Architectural Deep Dive - JP Zivalich, Pipekit Inc. & Becky Pauley, Venafi Jetstack Consult
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm MST
Are you new to Argo Events and trying to get your head around how everything works? Join us for an in-depth exploration of the Argo Events architecture, designed to transform you from a novice to a seasoned Argo Events maestro. In this session, we'll embark on a journey through the workings of Argo Events, unraveling the mysteries of the event bus, event source and sensors. We'll delve into their roles and responsibilities, and understand how they go about wrangling events within your Kubernetes cluster. This is the talk that we wished we had heard when we started on our Argo Events journey. Whether you're a seasoned Kubernetes practitioner or a newcomer to the Argo Events realm, this session will provide you with invaluable insights that will elevate your understanding and mastery of this powerful eventing engine.
Speakers
avatar for Becky Pauley

Becky Pauley

Solutions Engineer, Venafi Jetstack Consult
A self-taught engineer and career changer, I finally made the leap from teaching to tech several years ago. I’ve since worked in various Platform and Cloud Engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes best practices and Cost-Optimisation. As well as all things Cloud Native, I’m... Read More →
avatar for J.P. Zivalich

J.P. Zivalich

Cofounder, CTO, Pipekit Inc
Cofounder & CTO of Pipekit.
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 4:55pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B
  ArgoCon, Data Processing

4:30pm MST

Panel: Navigating the Trough of Disillusionment - Keith Mattix & Mitch Connors, Microsoft; John Howard, Louis Ryan & Lin Sun, Solo.io; Iris Ding, Intel
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
In the most recent Gartner hype cycle for API reports, service mesh has been placed in the "trough of disillusionment", signaling that that the hype for the technology is not where it once was. Come hear from members of the Istio Technical Oversight Committee discuss their perspective on this classification and why the best days of service mesh are still ahead of us.
Speakers
avatar for Iris Ding

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 →
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Mitch Connors

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Mitch Connors is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Aviatrix, 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... Read More →
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John Howard

John Howard, Solo.io
John Howard is a Senior Architect at Solo.io and Istio Technical Oversight Committee member.
avatar for Keith Mattix

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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Louis Ryan

CTO, Solo.io
Co-creator of Istio and gRPC
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Lin Sun

Head of Open-Source; CNCF TOC member, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, contributing to open source full time. She is a CNCF TOC member and ambassador, an Istio core maintainer and leader. She is an international speaker in various tech conferences and blogs frequently about her perspective of service mesh and... Read More →
Tuesday November 12, 2024 4:30pm - 5:05pm MST
Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C
 

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