KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Open source rules the world, and for a good reason: The code is generally better and more secure, bugs are fixed faster, and more. Virtually all modern applications run on it. But the landscape has changed since the early Linux days. Nights and weekends, volunteer-led projects are increasingly rare. Especially in the CNCF landscape, open source is maintained almost exclusively by companies that pursue a strategic goal, and they need a business justification for paying their engineers. So, who writes the code has changed, but the community's expectations — that it should be free — hasn't. While open source will remain free, the companies behind it must find ways to monetize it — whether through support, enterprise editions, or licensing models. Recent changes, including projects like Terraform, Flux, and Linkerd, highlight the need for a paradigm shift. Join this panel to hear from project maintainers why that is and the future they envision.

Speakers

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 →

Ashley Davis

Staff Software Engineer, Venafi

As a teenager, Ash taught himself to program after wondering how exactly video games were made. That led to adventures trawling through open source codebases, sparking an interest in computers spanning from bare-metal machine code right up to scalable distributed platforms like Kubernetes... Read More →

Deepthi Sigireddi

Software Engineer, PlanetScale

Deepthi is the Technical lead for Vitess, a CNCF graduated open source project. She also leads the Vitess engineering team at PlanetScale which offers a database service built on Vitess. She brings over 20 years of experience building scalable systems to this role. She enjoys speaking... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

11:55am MST

Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes - Mofi Rahman & Abdel Sghiouar, Google

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

The rapidly evolving landscape of Machine Learning and Large Language Models demands efficient scalable ways to run distributed workloads to train, fine-tune and serve models. Ray is an Open Source framework that simplifies distributed machine learning, and Kubernetes streamlines deployment. In this introductory talk, we'll uncover how to combine Ray and Kubernetes for your ML projects. You will learn about: - Basic Ray concepts (actors, tasks) and their relevance to ML - Setting up a simple Ray cluster within Kubernetes - Running your first distributed ML training job

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.

Mofi Rahman

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Mofizur Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at Google. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He is a strong believer of the power of open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:00pm MST

Faster Containerized LLM Serving via Knowledge Sharing - Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago & Zhou Sun, Mooncake Labs

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Imagine once an LLM learns something from a document, the knowledge can be instantly shared with other LLMs. Unfortunately, today, LLMs must read the same document multiple times, causing a significant slowdown. This session will introduce a new KNOWLEDGE-SHARING system that enables LLMs to share their digested knowledge, in the form of KV caches, so only one LLM needs to process each document. The key challenge is how to store the KV caches cheaply and serve them quickly. Instead of keeping the KV caches of all reusable chunks in GPU/CPU memory, we show a DEMO that with careful implementation on Kubernetes, storing them on cheaper devices is not only economically superior but also delivers significant reductions in LLM serving delay, especially the time to the first token.

Speakers

Junchen Jiang

Professor, University of Chicago

Junchen Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He works at the intersections between networked systems and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 2017 and his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua in 2011. He has received a Google... Read More →

Zhou Sun

CEO, Mooncake Labs

Mooncake Labs is working on the next generation of stateless data architecture, bringing database performance and functionality to structured and unstructured data in datalakes and raw datasets. Previous I lead the query team at SingleStore (cloud-native distributed HTAP database... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm MST

How GoTo Financial Automates Upgrading 60+ Istio Service Mesh Seamlessly! - Didi Yudha Perwira & Zufar Dhiyaulhaq, GoTo Financial

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, is widely used by many companies. Service meshes simplify observability, traffic management, security, and policy on Kubernetes. While they offer significant benefits, day-to-day operations like upgrades can be challenging. These upgrades require active monitoring during the process. GoTo Financial, for instance, took more than 45 days to upgrade 60+ clusters. This talk will share their journey of building an open-source, opinionated automation solution to simplify the Istio service mesh upgrade process. This solution has shortened upgrade time to 14 days, reduced active monitoring, and frees up valuable engineering resources and minimized downtime risks.

Speakers

Zufar Dhiyaulhaq

Engineering Manager, GoTo Financial

Zufar recently joins Gojek as Cloud Platform Engineer, He has been in the IT industry for 3 years, mostly working with Linux, Cloud, and Kubernetes. He also loves to contribute to open source projects like Istio and help to organize CNCF meetups in Indonesia.

Didi Yudha Perwira

Sr. Software Engineer, GoTo Financial

Didi has been working in GoTo Financial for 3 years and he has been working for Kubernetes and Istio since the day 1 he's working in GoTo Financial. Didi also have experience and passionate in software engineering field, usually he codes Golang, Javascript, Typescript and Python... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:00pm MST

Migratory Patterns: Making Architectural Transitions with Confidence and Grace - Pete Hodgson, PartnerSlate

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

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

Big technical migrations - like switching databases - can feel like you're swapping out the engine of a bus while continuing to drive down the freeway (with all your users screaming in the back). However, there are ways to make these transitions safe, incremental, low-stress. In this talk we'll walk through a real-world case study of switching a production system from one database to another with no downtime, and no tears, using techniques like Expand/Contract, Dark Launch and Parallel Run. We'll also see hands-on examples of using CNCF open standards like Open Feature and Open Telemetry to manage this migration.

Speakers

Pete Hodgson

CTO, PartnerSlate

Pete Hodgson is an independent software delivery consultant. He helps engineering teams to level up and tackle their thorniest challenges, with a focus on agile engineering practices, architectural evolution, and lean process management. Prior to going independent he spent several... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF

SDLC

Content Experience Level Intermediate