KubeCon North America 2021 Recap

18/10/2021 20 min

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Episode Synopsis

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