Cloud Native DevX Day North America 2021
2021-10-12
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as the organisers put it
An event for all creators, collaborators, teams, companies and projects who are aware of cloud native challenges and aim to make developers feel like everything is at their fingertips.
who it's for
platform engineers, developer experience engineers, backend engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, open source maintainers, observability engineers
topics
eBPF auto-instrumentation; Pixie observability; continuous profiling and flame graphs; SQL Commenter for databases; OpenTelemetry database context; kubectl graphical CLI (Kui); preview environments per-PR; per-developer GKE namespaces; telepresence and garden.io remote dev; Okteto Kubernetes dev environments; docs-as-code with CI checks; crossplane-based developer control plane
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Pauline P. Narvas | 06m |
Intro defines developer experience as daily friction caused by complex toolchains and cites RedMonk’s developer experience gap, gives Gitpod as an open source… | ||
| Keynote: Debugging in Prod Without (Lots Of) Pain | Zain Asgar, Natalie Serrino | 13m |
Claims a CNCF‑sandbox project, Pixie, auto‑instruments Kubernetes apps using eBPF and deploys via px deploy in 2–3 minutes, collecting HTTP headers, request… | ||
| Building Secure Open Source Communities From the Ground Up | Kiran "Rin" Oliver | 17m |
Builds a centralized community hub and migrates ~75–80 repos in two waves, taking about nine months to publish a security and dependency policy. Implements… | ||
| The Future of Database Observability is Open: SQL Commenter Merges W... | Jan Kleinert, Nimesh Bhagat | 18m |
Google donates and merges SQL Commenter into OpenTelemetry to create a vendor‑neutral way to push application context into databases; it augments SQL with… | ||
| Kui – CLIs With a Graphical Twist | Nick Mitchell | 20m |
Kui runs as a terminal replacement or popup, available via brew install kui and source at github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kui, and it replaces ASCII output with… | ||
| Continuous Documentation Manifesto | Omer Rosenbaum | 18m |
Argues for treating documentation like code and tests with three concrete rules: code-coupled docs embed file paths, function names and exact code snippets… | ||
| From Villains to Heroes: How an Improved DX Has Made Our Devs... | Patricia Gaughen, Ana-Maria Calin | 24m |
InfluxData replaces local kind/Docker desktop workflows with per-developer GKE namespaces and a toolchain built on garden.io + telepresence.io, invoked via… | ||
| With Preview Environments, Everyone is Invited To the Party | Jacob MacElroy | 21m |
Defines a preview environment as an ephemeral per-PR deployment that runs the branch code, is torn down after review, and posts a URL via a GitHub bot posts… | ||
| If Your Application is Going to Run in a Multi-Node Cluster, Why Are You Develo... | Ramiro Berrelleza | 24m |
Okteto (Apache‑2 open source) lets developers run dev environments in Kubernetes with one CLI and a tiny manifest, syncing local source to remote namespaces in… | ||
| From Kubernetes to PaaS to Developer Control Planes | Daniel Bryant | 24m |
Argues that as teams adopt full‑cycle development ownership, a new developer control plane layer is needed on top of Kubernetes to restore the PaaS simplicity… | ||
| A Cloud Native Foundation For Developer/Application Platforms | Max Korbacher | 24m |
Argues platform engineering must deliver a cloud‑agnostic foundation that actually provisions infra and developer workflows: uses crossplane plus Backstage… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Pauline P. Narvas | 02m |
Conference wraps with a clear claim: prioritize developer experience and invest in devex up front so teams spend less time fixing workflows and more time… | ||
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