KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel - Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Suhail Patel, Monzo; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

In the world of small and large financial institutions, platform engineering is a driver for shipping quickly, safely, and efficiently. This panel brings together seasoned practitioners from leading banks and financial institutions to share their firsthand platform experiences, successes, and challenges. - Discover how platform engineering can enhance developer experience, facilitate rapid innovation and drive efficiencies. - Delve into the complexities of navigating regulatory compliance, specifically when using open source technologies such as Kubernetes. - Learn from the experts' successes, setbacks and strategies (across technology and people), gaining actionable insights for successful implementation. Join us as we discuss the journey of adopting and deploying CNCF technologies at scale within the highly regulated financial sector. We’ll explore practical examples of both successes and incidents where things have gone wrong, providing the audience with valuable takeaways.

Speakers

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 →

Suhail Patel

Senior Staff Engineer, Monzo

Suhail is a Staff Engineer at Monzo focused on building the Core Platform. His role involves building and maintaining Monzo's infrastructure which spans over two thousand microservices and leverages key infrastructure components like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Etcd and more. He focuses... Read More →

Jinhong Brejnholt

Chief Cloud Architect, Saxo Bank

Jinhong is an accomplished cloud and platform architect, deeply committed to advancing DevSecOps practices and cloud-native technologies. She holds an MSc in Software Development and Technology and is certified as a Kubernetes application developer, administrator, and security specialist... Read More →

Chris Plank

Enterprise Architect & Joint Product Owner, NatWest Bank

Chris Plank is a Enterprise Architect working for NatWest Bank in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been leading a Platform as a Product initiative within the Bank over the last year looking to radically change the Banks approach to provisioning and maintaining services. Outside of work... Read More →

Rachael Wonnacott

Technical Product Owner, Kubernetes Platform, Fidelity International

Rachael has spent the last decade focused on platform engineering. She places a conscious emphasis on improving flow and is on the quest to smooth the application lifecycle for developers in the enterprise. With a background in astrophysics, Rachael brings her scientific approach... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

11:55am MST

Kubernetes Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain (and Maybe a Little Swearing) - Jago Macleod, Google

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Kubernetes upgrades are a major pain point for many users, often due to the complexity of managing multiple, independently versioned components. This talk will delve into the strategies and best practices for minimizing disruption and maximizing success during Kubernetes upgrades. We'll explore: - Common pitfalls and challenges faced during upgrades - Practical tips for smoother, more reliable upgrade processes - The risks of relying solely on Long Term Support (LTS) versions - Improving upgrade reliability for all Kubernetes users, regardless of their chosen platform Led by the head of both OSS Kubernetes and GKE Release and Upgrades at Google, this talk will provide valuable insights and actionable advice for anyone looking to create a sustainable and successful upgrade strategy. Whether you're a seasoned Kubernetes veteran or just getting started, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the complex landscape of Kubernetes upgrades.

Speakers

Jago Macleod

Engineering Director, Google

Jago Macleod is an Engineering Director at Google, where he leads much of the Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, which gives him the opportunity to work with some of Google Cloud’s largest customers. Prior to working at Google, Jago helped make the smart homes that... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

2:00pm MST

Micro-Segmentation and Multi-Tenancy: The Brown M&Ms of Platform Engineering - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

A key requirement for internal developer platforms is that they serve multiple workloads. The reality of platform engineering is that while it seeks to lower the barrier to entry for teams to deliver applications, it must also balance cost and ensure appropriate levels of security. It’s therefore essential to consider how application components running on shared infrastructure are allowed to communicate with each other and weigh up the cost of each architecture. In industry, we have seen differing approaches to deploying Kubernetes to achieve these goals, from multiple single-tenant clusters through to shared clusters that deliver namespaces-as-a-service. Rachael and Jim will define the concepts of multi-tenancy and micro-segmentation for cloud native systems, explain why they are critical to success with platform engineering. They will also show real-world examples of how they can be implemented, and demonstrate full automation using best practices like GitOps and Policy as Code.

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Rachael Wonnacott

Technical Product Owner, Kubernetes Platform, Fidelity International

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm MST

Modernization of Intuit Payroll Enterprise Using Event Driven Architecture - Hema Maarimuthu & Vigith Maurice, Intuit

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Intuit's Quickbooks Online Payroll Enterprise, a critical application serving over 2 million customers, processes over a million transactions and $34 billion in payroll taxes. We're modernizing with a heavy investment in event-driven architecture for effective handling of financial data. This major transition extends beyond just the payroll platform; it involves decomposing complex systems across Intuit products using event-driven architecture and a focus on availability, scalability, and security is crucial. To address challenges like autoscaling for high throughput, low latency, better operational excellence, and development productivity, we have built our modernized platform on Numaflow, an open-source, Kubernetes native, language-agnostic platform. In our presentation, we will share our journey of modernizing our stack using event-driven serverless architecture on Numaflow and highlight the advantages it has brought to our developers and technology infrastructure.

Speakers

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 →

Hema Maarimuthu

Principal Engineer, Intuit

Hema is a Principal Software Engineer for Intuit's Online Payroll Infrastructure team in Mountain View, California. Hema’s current work involves leading cross-functional teams, strategizing, and driving operational excellence initiatives. Her major accomplishments include successfully... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

4:00pm MST

Medical Research Computing Infrastructure on Hybrid Kubernetes - Jennings Zhang & Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children's Hospital

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Research computing is essential across biomedical research, especially in medical imaging and radiology where ML+AI are rapidly disrupting the field. But while the research frontier continues moving forward, the computing infrastructure of research and healthcare institutions tend to lag behind. At the Boston Children’s Hospital, we are closing the gap by developing the ChRIS Research Integration Service (ChRIS for short). ChRIS is an MIT-licensed platform for medical computation, enabling the use of research software in clinical practice, while maximizing the utility of our hybrid-cloud resources. This talk will be a discussion of the cloud-native software ecosystem from the perspective of a medical researcher of a teaching hospital. We will consider the advantages of adopting cloud-native software and Kubernetes for research and healthcare institutions, as well as the challenges in doing so.

Speakers

Rudolph Pienaar

Dr, Boston Children's Hospital

Dr Pienaar is the architect of ChRIS -- a general purpose and MLops platform that is uniquely suited to the needs of both biomedical researcher and clinical users. He leads the Advanced Computing Group at the Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging Development Science Center at Boston Children's... Read More →

Jennings Zhang

Research Developer, Boston Children's Hospital

Jennings is a neuroscience researcher and software developer at the Boston Children's Hospital. His work and interests are split between biological questions, e.g. human brain development, and all-things software development, especially containers and Rust.

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:55pm MST

Reducing Cloud Cost for Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes Platform - Simon Ting & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

A self-service multi-tenancy Kubernetes platform offers many benefits to application teams. In less than 2 years, American Airlines Shared K8 Platform has grown to over 1000+ deployments. Now that we built a resilient and secure platform, we must make it cost-effective to ensure long-term viability. This has the added benefit of reducing the carbon footprint of our platform. In the 2nd year, our platform grew by over 300% but costs increased by 500% as we added security, observability, and other features. How do we start to control costs without violating our self-service model? What is the reasonable amount to spend on Observability? What is a reasonable utilization goal and how do we get there? What level of cost optimization can we achieve without compromising our self-service model and maintaining the resiliency of our platform? We set out to address all these questions and this is our journey. In 4 months, we decreased the total Cost Per Utilized Core (CPUC) by 40%.

Speakers

Simon Ting

Principal Product Manager, American Airlines

Simon Ting is the Principal Product Manager for Kubernetes as a Platform and Observability at American Airlines. Simon started his IT career as a developer and moved into configuration management and development platforms manager for over 2 decades. During that time he supported on-site... Read More →

Sravan Akinapally

Product Tech Lead, American Airlines

Product Tech Lead

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Beginner