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KubeCon North America 2021 Recap

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Presentations - Some in person, Some recorded with presenter on hand in slack or the platform. Some given virtually. Wide spectrum of quality and content.

  • Upstream Kubernetes Focus
  • Downstream Kubernetes Focus
  • Vendor related
  • Individual experience related to Kubernetes or tangential topic

    • API Clarity - Tooling to detect shadow and zombie APIs. Depends on Istio.

    How NOT to Start with Kubernetes - Christian Heckelmann, Dynatrace

    Improving Dev Experience: How We Built a Cloud Native Dev Stack At Scale - Srinidhi S & Venkatesan Vaidyanathan, Razorpay

    • One Engineer across 3 months. We are still building a lot of features, as we speak.
    • Simplify developer workflow and reduce time to rollout features independently.
    • Due to limitations with telepresence rebuilt a tool that might not was aware of. Okteto for file syncing.

      • Jasmine James Keynote

      • Discoverability
        • UnderstandingScreen recordings
        User interviews
        Search Analytics

        MetricsOnboarding time
        Number of merges per developer / day
        Deploys to Production
        eNPS

        Core Improvements
        Single-sourcing guidanceTemplates
        Hubs
        Centralized Support
      • Usability
        • Understanding
        Usability TestingOpen Ended Tasks
        Closed Ended Tasks

        MetricsSuccess rate
        Time-based efficiency

        Core ImprovementsGolden Paths
        Automation
        Error Prevention
      • Capability
        • UnderstandingJourney Mapping - Book Reference
        Surveys

        MetricsCustomer Satisfaction (eNPS)

        Core ImprovementsPersona mapped capabilities
        Real time tool feedback
      • Stability
        • UnderstandingIncident Management Data
        Post Mortems
        Surveys
        Focus Groups

        Metrics
        Tool and Capability uptimeEnvironment specific SLOs
        Mean Time between Outages

        Core ImprovementsIntentional post mortems
        Centralized Support

        Change is Hard - Securing the Future Today- Andrew Clay Shafer, Red Hat

        • Software is eating software. Software is eating software security.
        • You build it you run it. Software layer not the platform or infrastructure services.

          • Developer Experience - Platforms as a Service - Thursday

          Vendors that I liked

          • Rookout - Debugging code paths in production.
          • Gitpod
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