stackconf 2023
as the organisers put it
What a highlight stackconf 2023 was! Thanks for 2 days full of Open Source Infrastructure Love – Thanks to all of you!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Climbing high — getting started with cloud native security through open source | Anais Urlichs | 32m |
Practical starter for cloud native security that shows concrete tools and numbers: use Trivy (11k+ stars) to scan repos, images and YAML for vulnerabilities… | ||
| Infrastructure-From-Code and the end of Microservices | Ala Shiban | 50m |
Claims that Infrastructure-from-Code compilers read plain application code with small annotations, infer resources and permissions, and emit Pulumi/terraform… | ||
| GitOps in Kubernetes | Alex Soto | 28m |
A live demo shows Argo CD deploying a Kubernetes Rock‑Paper‑Scissors app that replaces button input with a camera‑based classifier; components are a Node.js… | ||
| Integrating cloud native security into the SRE culture | Anais Urlichs | 30m |
Argues that SRE practices (observability, automation, postmortems) can absorb security by wiring scanners into pipelines, dashboards and alerts instead of… | ||
| Dynamic Image Optimization with imgproxy | Andreas Lehr | 36m |
Images drive 42% of LCP and the conference speaker page transfers 35.7 MB with individual images up to 5 MB, so imgproxy is deployed as a dynamic on‑the‑fly… | ||
| How the Network Protocols You Choose Ultimately Affect Your Applications | Andrei Pokhilko | 45m |
Compares HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3/QUIC, gRPC, Kafka and message queues using nginx and simple load‑testing rigs and Go/Node/Python/Java serialization… | ||
| Rolling Updates: Database Version Migrations with minimum Disruption | Anton Kovalenko | 36m |
YDB is an Apache-2.0 distributed SQL that runs across thousands of nodes and keeps read/write availability during upgrades by combining a rolling restart tool… | ||
| What the Heck is Edge Computing Anyway? | Austin Gil | 46m |
Edge compute means running serverless functions in a global CDN so dynamic responses execute near users, reducing latency. Practical limits are V8 isolates… | ||
| Keys To An Accessibility Mindset | Daniel Yuschik | 29m |
Accessible design equals good design and follows four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust. Three concrete keys: use element types that… | ||
| Scaling a Collaboration Service like Nextcloud to 20 Million users | Frank Karlitschek | 46m |
Nextcloud scales from a Raspberry Pi for a few users to a global deployment serving 20 million accounts by combining Kubernetes, Ceph, MariaDB clustering with… | ||
| Implementing holistic security for containers and Kubernetes | Jan Bruder, Jérémy Guerrand | 52m |
Calico demonstrates production scale with 8M+ nodes, 1M+ clusters and 1.5B image pulls, offering WireGuard node-to-node encryption, an egress (egress) gateway… | ||
| Open-Source: Open Choice – A DevOps Guide for OSS Adoption | Hila Fish | 41m |
Practical checklist for adopting OSS: she demonstrates using KEDA to downscale GKE pods to zero for cost savings and ScriptServer to let non‑tech users run… | ||
| IGNITE: How to build and deploy ethical AI features | Frank Karlitschek | 06m |
Nextcloud builds and ships an open source local AI stack that runs on customer servers, offering 100% on-prem privacy and a configurable switch to SaaS models… | ||
| IGNITE: Are you still doing microservices? | Philipp Krenn | 06m |
Argues that microservices often trade simplicity for tool sprawl, using the OpenTelemetry demo app as an example of intentionally mixed technologies that boost… | ||
| Database Infrastructure with Open Source Kubernetes Database Operators | INEL PANDZIC | 27m |
Percona builds Kubernetes operators that deploy and manage MySQL, MongoDB and Postgres clusters by declarative CRs, automatically creating StatefulSets, PVCs… | ||
| How to survive Cloud – An Ops perspective | Katharina Sommer | 24m |
Describes moving a customer platform of 100 microservices into cloud-native operations, adopting managed Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)… | ||
| SCS: Buildig Open Source Cloud and Container Infrastructure | Kurt Garloff | 34m |
Sovereign Cloud Stack builds a community-standardized open cloud: funded by the German Ministry, about 50 active members, five releases so far and a sixth due… | ||
| Architecting an open observability stack | Nele Lea Uhlemann | 13m |
Argues for an open-source observability stack built around OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral tracing/metrics/logs, with concrete backends: Jaeger/Zipkin for… | ||
| Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing | Nicolas Fränkel | 41m |
Demo shows OpenTelemetry wired into an e‑commerce example: API6 gateway, Jaeger backend, Docker Compose orchestration, a Kotlin Spring Boot catalog, Python… | ||
| It’s time to rebuild DevOps | Paul Stack | 37m |
Claims that DevOps needs a rebuild after ~15 years, arguing current tooling creates new silos and a 200% problem (must learn both a DSL and a cloud)… | ||
| Elastic ❤️ Terraform | Philipp Krenn | 25m |
Elastic standardizes on Terraform (dropping Ansible and Helm/Compose) and splits integrations into an cloud provider for Elastic Cloud and a stack provider for… | ||
| Bringing Order to Chaos: Make Your Systems More Resilient with Chaos Engineering | Sayan Mondal | 30m |
Shows a hands‑on use of litmus chaos with two live demos: a pod delete against an online boutique product‑catalog and the same against a sockshop catalog while… | ||
| Analyzing Public Conversation using LDA and Topic Modeling, in Python | Sveta Gimpelson | 35m |
Builds Choir OSINT pipeline that starts from 10 seed Twitter accounts and expands by a simple ranking on followers keywords and retweets, collects tweets… | ||
| Gain SRE Superpowers with K8sGPT | Thomas Schütz | 29m |
A CLI plus an in-cluster operator that scans Kubernetes, reports concrete failures and proposes fixes: K8sGPT finds missing service accounts, missing Endpoints… | ||
| Observing Minecraft | Ajuna Kyaruzi | 33m |
Sets up a Java Minecraft server on EC2 using a CraftBukkit server, drops in a GitHub plugin called “Minecraft for Prometheus exporter” to expose metrics over… | ||
| Cooking up o11y w/ Feature Flagging | Alayshia Knigthen | 29m |
Combining feature flags with observability yields live technical and business signals: Honeycomb traces, OpenTelemetry attributes and Jaeger-style spans tie a… | ||
| IGNITE: What RomComs didn’t teach me about Incident Management | Ajuna Kyaruzi | 06m |
Rom‑coms model repeated miscommunication — e.g., 27 Brides: 27 bridesmaid appearances and a hidden article that causes the breakup — while incident management… | ||
| IGNITE: Terraform Practice to Enable Infrastructure Scaling | Hila Fish | 06m |
Argues for organizing Terraform repositories by team/project/cloud/account/env/region with custom modules stored separately, and shows that this produces small… | ||
| IGNITE: A blaming culture is not your fault | Nele Lea Uhlemann | 05m |
Argues that tooling alone fails when a blaming culture stops people from reporting errors and collaborating; claims the fix is three concrete elements… | ||
| Better Living by Changing Less – IncrativeOps | Michael Coté | 40m |
Proposal named IncrativeOps argues for small, sustainable changes rather than sweeping rewrites and shows concrete signals to act: CI/CD adoption ~50–60% and… | ||
| Continuous Deployment Workflows | Marco Otte-Witte | 46m |
Argues that shipping dozens of tiny releases per day is practical by removing release branches and deploy on merge so every merged branch automatically goes to… | ||
| IGNITE: Schrödinger’s backups: how to avoid uncertainty | Anton Kovalenko | 06m |
Automated restore tests run as part of CI so production backups are actually restorable not just scheduled. A harness creates databases, populates tables with… | ||
| IGNITE: How to collect Telemetry data using Memphis.dev? | Sveta Gimpelson | 06m |
Builds a telemetry pipeline in a few hours using Memphis.dev by swapping the managed broker for a station called user_traces, with user brokers producing… | ||
| IGNITE: Unleashing the Magic: Building SaaS Platforms | Thomas Schuetz | 06m |
Multi-tenant SaaS needs strong isolation, reproducible provisioning and per-tenant credentials rather than soft tenancy; common failures are config drift… | ||
| How to reduce expenses on monitoring with VictoriaMetrics | Roman Khavronenko | 28m |
A set of concrete cost wins with VictoriaMetrics: swapping a Prometheus-like binary yields a 7-day benchmark drop from 83 GB to 33 GB of disk, memory from ~8… | ||
| Recap of stackconf 2023 | 01m | |
Stackconf 2023 marks the second in-person edition and reports a clear success: 30 international speakers from companies like Google, Honeycomb, VMware and… | ||
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