KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Retrospective: Co-track chairing the Business Value track
I once again had the honour of being a Track Chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, this time for the business value track. Working on on the track was work was a pleasure with my great co-track chair, Harshit. We also had a great time moderating the track, as well as meeting all of the speakers during the event. When you spend hours and days going through session submissions and thinking about how all of it will play out, it is amazing to see the finished track & content.
Altogether KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 had over 10 tracks and over 17 000 attendees. So it is a massive team effort from all of the program committee members, co-track chairs, program co-chairs and CNCF. Thank you to the whole community, I am very lucky to be able to part of such an amazing community.
The business value track had great sessions and amazing speakers this time. From sharing own how to make the biggest impact with a small team to talking about the ever important topic of going from comsumer to contributor, there is a lot to offer.
Here is everything on the the Business Value track at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022!
How To Build a Distributed System (And Should You?) - Rebecca Bilbro & Patrick Deziel, Rotational Labs
In this talk, we’ll tell the story of how we built our very own eventually consistent system which is currently deployed in production clusters across the US, Germany, and Singapore -- including all the mistakes we made along the way. We’ll walk through how we leveraged tools like gRPC, Kubernetes, LevelDB, and Prometheus to implement two new open source projects that serve as the heart of our system. We’ll also confess all the ways we messed up during the process — from struggling to debug protocol buffer errors, to tangling up send and receive goroutines, to reasoning about the phases of replication. It won’t all be pretty, but we hope you’ll benefit from the lessons we learned, including the most important lesson — that you *can* build your own distributed system. We’ll close out by talking about why rolling our own system (in spite of all the headaches and mistakes) made sense for our use case, and why it might also make sense for you. Attendees will walk away with a hearty introduction to distributed systems concepts, as well as a to-do list of things they can investigate in their own systems to determine how they might be able to reduce concurrency-related bugs and/or consistency-related costs, improve maintenance, and reach more daily active users around the world.
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Chaos Engineering Applied To the FinTech Domain - Rajeshwar Vadheraju, FIS & Neelanjan Manna, Harness
FIS, a Fintech company with more than 20,000 clients around the globe, offers Banking-as-a-Service Hub, which enables banks and corporations the ability to rapidly configure new financial services. The Delivery of “as-a-service” features across accounts, cards, and establishments is enabled by functional modules deployed on Kubernetes, which are used by thousands of customers each day. To bolster the resiliency of this critical infrastructure, FIS uses LitmusChaos to expose and help remediate the system flaws thereby ensuring highly available services for the customers. In this talk, Rajeshwar (FIS) & Neelanjan (Harness) will lay out the reliability challenges while delivering Banking-as-an-Service and demonstrate how chaos experimentation was leveraged as part of the organization’s “client-experience-year” initiatives to improve the banking APIs.
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Edge Computing Is Hot. Find Out the Business Value From Three Experts - Larry Carvalho, RobustCloud LLC; Stu Miniman, Red Hat; Marilyn Basanta, VMware; Muneyb Minhazuddin, Intel
Edge computing is drawing increased investments by organizations gaining efficiencies by taking advantage of automating physical activities. While consumer applications with connected homes have high awareness, significant business benefits are gained from using edge technology in commercial applications like the factory floor, mining operations, etc. Simulation of a digital twin of a complete factory or warehouse by embedding technology into devices can assist in making better decisions without large investments. Technologies used in edge solutions are AI/ML, 5G, IoT, and cloud native architectures.
This panel discussion will discuss how cloud native tools provide business benefits to applying edge technology for physical process efficiencies. Larry Carvalho, Principal Consultant at RobustCloud LLC, will moderate this session. Stu Miniman from Red Hat will highlight how a cruise line operator used a Kubernetes-powered edge solution to deliver an excellent digital experience to ship guests in disconnected environments. Marilyn Basanta will discuss how a large ground shipping service was able to add a modern application platform to their distribution centers, ensuring higher employee productivity and business continuity during natural events. Muneyb Minhazuddin will talk about how a manufacturer modernizes applications on the factory floor as they converge IT and OT to create a dynamic and agile production line in a factory shop by software defining constrained devices.
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Implementing Private 5G Networks For Enterprises With Kubernetes - Amar Kapadia, Aarna Networks & Christian Huebner, Mirantis
Images of large scale telecommunications wireless networks built using big iron boxes come to mind for many when they hear the term 5G. We will introduce you to a new type of private network built using 5G technology that brings with it numerous benefits over existing wired and wireless networks commonly found in enterprise environments. We will then continue to show how Private 5G networks will be built using cloud native (containerized) network functions that are orchestrated by Kubernetes as opposed to the legacy way of using purpose-built appliances. In this talk, you will learn: * What are Private 5G networks * What are the benefits of a Private 5G network * What hardware and software components are required to build a Private 5G network * How can Kubernetes be used as the orchestration layer for the software components * What special requirements are imposed on Kubernetes to support networking traffic * The role of Linux Foundation Anuket in supporting these requirements
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Get Projects Approved By Articulating the Business Value Of a Cloud Native Solution - Larry Carvalho, RobustCloud LLC; Krisztián Flautner, Cisco; Betty Junod, VMware; Chris Rosen, IBM
Cloud native technology is a robust set of tools that enable the development of innovative solutions, but practitioners often do not understand the business value delivered. This panel discussion will focus on three examples of how cloud native tools provide significant benefits not possible with traditional technology. Larry Carvalho, Principal Consultant at RobustCloud LLC, will moderate this session. Krisztián Flautner from Cisco will touch upon how a financial enterprise customer with challenges around digital transformation and the acceleration of FinTech uses cloud native technology to accelerate the introduction of new applications with lifecycle management. Chris Rosen from IBM will highlight how a customer used cloud native technologies to build a hybrid cloud solution that leveraged insights from data to speed up the insurance claim process while preventing fraud. Betty Junod from VMware will discuss how a traditional retailer was able to turn a production downtime of their primary in-store system over a busy sale weekend into a modern system that is more resilient, scalable, and agile for their central IT and store associates. This panel discussion will help you articulate the bottom line value delivered by a collection of open source cloud native technologies.
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Leveraging Community To Transform Ford's Software Development Teams - Rebecca Riss & Satish Puranam, Ford Motor Company; Langdon White, Boston University
This presentation from Ford Motor Company, Boston University, and Red Hat showcases the power of community to drive the transformation from traditional software development methodologies to next generation cloud native development. To do this, Ford has turned to Kube By Example, sponsored by Red Hat and supported by Boston University, as a means to upskill their workforce and accelerate the development of cloud native automotive software. This has led to increased community participation, optimized customer experiences and a transformation of Ford's software development culture that runs deeper than the technology itself.
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Consumers To Contributors: Open Source As a Competitive Advantage - Brendan O'Leary, GitLab
As open source software has eaten the software world, it can be your biggest asset or cause your biggest problems. Most of the time, we consume open source without really considering the long-term impact on our business. So why would a business, enterprise, or organization decide to become a Contributor instead of just a Consumer? In this talk, we'll look at some of the biggest success stories in enterprise open source software partnerships and some of the cautionary tales. The more an organization is involved in co-creating the open source packages they use, the more both the organization and the open source project benefit. This session is for everyone: open source maintainers, OSPO leaders, or open source advocates in large enterprises. At the end of our session, you'll be able to articulate the tangible and emergent benefits organizations and enterprises gain when they stop just consuming open source software and instead embrace "Everyone can contribute."
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How We Revolutionized Developer Experience With 3.5 Platform Engineers - Jessica Andersson, Kognic
As a small team there is a lot of leverage to be gained from using cloud native projects, but the task might seem daunting and something that you need to have a very large organisation to have any use of. This couldn’t be further from the truth! Join this case study and learn how Jessica and her team of three and a half Platform Engineers revolutionized the developer experience for 30 developers at Annotell with the help of cloud native projects.
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FinKube – Making the Business Case For Kubernetes At Your Company - Somik Behera, CloudNatix
This session is for DevOps leads and managers that are driving Kubernetes (K8s) adoption within their company and want to level up their influence and skill set in making the financial business case for adoption of K8s and associated CNCF ecosystem components. As Kubernetes crosses the “chasm” in the technology adoption lifecycle, K8s champions now have the opportunity to further drive K8s adoption and transformation of their enterprise. This new phase will require “T-shirts” (Dev & Ops teams) to speak the language of the “Suits” (Finance and execs), figuratively and literally. This session will provide you the toolkit to make that business case, capture results and demonstrate value from K8s roll-out and expansion across 4 dimensions: - Capacity & Cost Optimization - quantify the bottom line benefits - DevOps Productivity - quantify the benefits in % of FTE savings - Developer Velocity - quantify the reduction in time to value - Business agility - finally, quantify the business impact of new K8s based services on top line We will open-source and provide the Excel, Google Sheet, Google Slides and Powerpoint templates used in this talk to help the community create a compelling business case proposal with solid ROI.
