Kelsey Hightower
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where they keep going back
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America3 editions2016–2019
- PlatformCon Live Day New York2 editions2025–2026
- Next.js Conf2 editions2021–2022
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on a stage with
- Megan Reynolds2×
- Alex Polvionce
- Aneel Lakhanionce
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who talks about the same things
- Tim Hockin21 talks
- Aparna Sinha18 talks
- Ricardo Rocha52 talks
- Vicki Cheung17 talks
- Clayton Coleman12 talks
- Emily Fox36 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Q&A | ContainerDays Hamburg 2026 | 2026-09-02 |
Argues Kubernetes is powerful but flawed because its declarative API only records desired state and cannot reconcile real world drift, warns against using… | ||
| ZTA: Zero Token Architecture | PlatformCon 2026 Live Day New York | 2026-06-25 |
Argues that zero token architecture means infer once, export and run without inference: use an LLM or agent a single time to generate code or a pipeline, then… | ||
| 20+ years of building systems that outlast the chaos | RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas | 2025-10-14 |
Argues that teams must scale down before you scale up and learn kernel, memory, and app fundamentals instead of buying complexity; replaces fragile deploy… | ||
| The Platform Engineer | PlatformCon 2025 Live Day NYC | 2025-06-26 |
Career advice grounded in concrete engineering moves: learns Bash then Go, builds a CLI called zap tool to mass-delete ISOs, wires Jira to Puppet to create an… | ||
| Fireside chat | PlatformCon 2025 Live Day NYC | 2025-06-26 |
Argues that agentic AI adds a new interface but not new fundamentals: platforms must expose real APIs to legacy systems via things like Model Context Protocol… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Cloud Native StartupFest NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Opening remarks ask the audience to don't check email and frame the event as lessons from founders who tried to turn open source projects into businesses and… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower - Start-Up Resilience in a Post-ZIRP World | Cloud Native StartupFest NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Advice centers on concrete moves not mottos: require a paying customer or an onramp before scaling, run field trips to customers and watch a customer install… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Cloud Native StartupFest NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Thanks to the panelists and to everyone who stayed through a long ass day; the core claim is that the open source business model is crucial and the session… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower & Sebastian Scheele | ContainerDays Conference 2024 | 2024-09-03 |
A firsthand account of Kubernetes origins recounts getting Google’s pre-release, compiling the code on CoreOS and shipping a tutorial, explains why kubectl… | ||
| Keynote: Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower | DevConf.US 2024 | 2024-08-14 |
Career advice and concrete attitudes: start where you are, finish small projects, and build reputation by learning the job’s tech end-to-end; real claim is… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Cloud Native StartupFest 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Welcome covers why many CNCF projects become company foundations and names the hardest problems: licensing changes to protect business models, how to monetize… | ||
| Panel: Venture Capital and Open Source, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Cloud Native StartupFest 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Venture investors focus on concrete signals: having at least one paying customer validation and repeatable sales evidence, not GitHub vanity metrics—10,000… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Cloud Native StartupFest 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Early startups begin as messy pivots and end with concrete products and exits here: an initial YC-backed company pivots four times and ships a control panel… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Cloud Native StartupFest 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Interest rates rising force different choices: some startups need Venture capital to scale hardware but many succeed selling direct. GitHub stars do not equal… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Cloud Native Wasm Day Europe 2023 | 2023-04-18 |
Argues two concrete goals: universal portable runtime that hides CPU/OS/drivers, and component model / modern mainframe that reuses stable APIs like S3 and… | ||
| What is Wasm A Non Experts Opinion | KCD Ukraine 2023 | 2023-03-16 |
Wasm appears as a tightened JVM‑style runtime aiming for a minimal secure sandbox that favors fast startup and plugin use cases rather than full POSIX apps… | ||
| The Future of the Web: From Cloud to Edge | Next.js Conf 2022 | 2022-10-25 |
Claims concrete wins: V8 isolates start tiny serverless units at the Edge so middleware and auth run close to users, bundling minimizes bytes with Turbo Pack… | ||
| Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks | Spinnaker Summit 2022 | 2022-10-24 |
Morning welcome thanks the planning committee and sponsors Armory Optimizely Cloud Native and Salesforce and asks attendees to follow the code of conduct and… | ||
| Keynote: Technical Oversight Committee Q&A | Spinnaker Summit 2022 | 2022-10-24 |
Technical governance merges steering into a single Technical Oversight Committee and focuses on concrete fixes: automated release pipeline is rebuilt after… | ||
| The Secure Software Supply Chain | Strange Loop 2022 | 2022-09-22 |
After decades of gluing together software from a random set of libraries and frameworks, industry wide attacks on the software supply chain have proven this… | ||
| Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower | devopsdays Minneapolis 2022 | 2022-08-01 |
Anecdotes show a career built from tech support to systems work: choosing an ethernet modem over a cheap USB stick on a Windows 98 box, convincing a skeptical… | ||
| The Secure Software Supply Chain | Craft Conference 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Explains why SolarWinds-style compromises make the build system a threat vector, shows a simple Go user service binary, and demonstrates practical fixes: sign… | ||
| Edge Functions Explained | Next.js Conf 2021 | 2021-10-26 |
Demo shows a working JWT authentication demo implemented as middleware that runs one layer closer to users on Vercel’s edge, returning noticeably lower latency… | ||
| Keynote: Introduction to SPIFFE | Production Identity Day: SPIFFE + SPIRE 2020 | 2020-11-17 |
Demo shows SPIFFE IDs as simple strings embedded in tokens and certificates and proves end-to-end that they can bootstrap trust across clouds. A Cloud Run… | ||
| Ask Me Anything with the Go Team | GopherCon 2020 | 2020-11-09 |
An on-stage AMA details concrete work: the new pkg.go.dev discovery site (now open source), the gopls language server with biweekly releases and CI back to go… | ||
| Keynote: Reflections | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
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| Keynote: Serverless, Not So FaaS | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | 2018-05-02 |
Argues that serverless needs a common event envelope not just FaaS and shows a working prototype: a draft CloudEvents envelope, an open‑source event gateway… | ||
| Keynote: Closing Remarks | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | 2018-05-02 |
Thanks and logistics dominate the closing: organizers stress that no sponsors no AC no water, thank AWS the scene CF Google Cloud helm hep tio and VMware for… | ||
| Keynote: KubeCon Opening Keynote | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
Kubernetes becomes “boring” by automating cluster creation and deployments: a demo requests an 8-node cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine, a CI/CD pipeline… | ||
| Building cloud-native applications with Kubernetes and Istio | Velocity 2017 | 2017-06-19 |
Argues that containerizing with Docker decouples app from machine and gives first-stage portability, then adopting cluster managers like Kubernetes decouples… | ||
| Keynote: Kubernetes Federation | CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 | 2017-03-29 |
Argues that federation is for managing multiple clusters as one control surface, not a magic multi‑cloud migrator, and demonstrates a federated control plane… | ||
| Kubernetes: What you need to know ... and why | O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2016: San Francisco | 2016-11-14 |
Quick overview of the Kubernetes community, project, and the technology that manages containerized workloads, emphasizing concrete mechanics: automated… | ||
| Keynote: Kubernetes | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 | 2016-11-08 |
Kubernetes is framed as an API server plus objects that form a contract: service discovery can be implemented by reading the Endpoints API rather than relying… | ||
| Building Microservices w/gRPC & Kubernetes: A practical intro | Philly ETE 2016 | 2016-04-11 |
Live demos build a Go gRPC service from a proto3 IDL, generate Go and Node stubs, show unary and streaming RPCs over HTTP/2, and secure calls with TLS plus… | ||
| Managing Containers at Scale with CoreOS and Kubernetes | Strange Loop 2015 | 2015-09-24 |
CoreOS plus Kubernetes deploy a tiny statically linked hello world app with Redis as a helper, build a Docker image ~2–7 MB, push to a registry, and run it on… | ||
| Rocket & the App Container Spec | GOTO Amsterdam 2015 | 2015-06-18 |
Rocket (rkt) targets Linux with daemon-free foreground execution, converts Docker images on the fly into ACI archives, and composes multi-ACI pods that share… | ||
| on the State of Distributed Computing | Velocity Santa Clara 2015 | 2015-05-27 |
Argues that public cloud readiness plus freely available projects like Kubernetes make large-scale deployment practical today, not just theory; shows… | ||
| Managing Containers at Scale with CoreOS and Kubernetes | Philly ETE 2015 | 2015-04-07 |
Overview of CoreOS plus Kubernetes with concrete outcomes: a CoreOS-based cluster boots via PXE into a five-node cluster running flannel, docker, kubelet and… | ||
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