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KubeCon Atlanta 2025 Part 3: Community at 10 Years - The Sustainability Question
CNCF celebrates 10 years with 300,000 contributors and 230+ projects—but the hallway track told a different story. 60% of maintainers unpaid. 60% have left or considered leaving. The XZ Utils backdoor showed what happens when isolated maintainers burn out. Han Kang's passing reminds us of the human cost behind the code.
In this episode:
- Technical breakout sessions: CiliumCon (TikTok IPv6, 60K node clusters), in-toto graduation, Gateway API convergence, OpenTelemetry eBPF
- Open Source Pledge: Antithesis $110K, Convex $100K - real cash to maintainers
- Kat Cosgrove survival strategies: "When you're an open source maintainer, you don't get to have a bad day in public"
Perfect for platform team leads, open source contributors, and engineering leadership invested in community sustainability.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00037-kubecon-2025-community-sustainability
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By vibesreCNCF celebrates 10 years with 300,000 contributors and 230+ projects—but the hallway track told a different story. 60% of maintainers unpaid. 60% have left or considered leaving. The XZ Utils backdoor showed what happens when isolated maintainers burn out. Han Kang's passing reminds us of the human cost behind the code.
In this episode:
- Technical breakout sessions: CiliumCon (TikTok IPv6, 60K node clusters), in-toto graduation, Gateway API convergence, OpenTelemetry eBPF
- Open Source Pledge: Antithesis $110K, Convex $100K - real cash to maintainers
- Kat Cosgrove survival strategies: "When you're an open source maintainer, you don't get to have a bad day in public"
Perfect for platform team leads, open source contributors, and engineering leadership invested in community sustainability.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00037-kubecon-2025-community-sustainability