KubeCon NA 2024, my most anticipated topics

I always make a list about the topics I am most interested in during KubeCon. Here is my list for KubeCon NA 2024. Parts of them already have slides, we could watch them before the conference.

And later I will update my comments/reviews on each topic.

Talks

• All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski
• When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona
• How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft
• Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum
• What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeArmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
• What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - Christian Posta & Louis Ryan, Solo.io
• The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby & Karen Chu, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft
• Per-Node Api-Server Proxy: Expand the Cluster’s Scale and Stability - Weizhou Lan & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud
• Pick My Project! Lessons Learned from Interviewing 20+ End Users for Cloud Native Case Studies - Shedrack Akintayo & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent at Cisco
• How Google Built a New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google
• Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel
• Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF
• Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers’ Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consulting; Matt Bates, Cofide
• Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google
• Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat
• What’s New in Operator Framework?! - Bryce Palmer, Rashmi Gottipati & Lalatendu Mohanty, Red Hat; Attila Meszaros, Apple
• Still Don’t Do What Charlie Don’t Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent
• Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project - Calum Murray, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering & Zainab Husain, OCAD University
• Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker
• The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent
• Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail, NVIDIA Inc
• Goodbye etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte

Lighting Talks

• gRPC: The gRPC “Standard Library” | Project Lightning Talk
• ⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubectl Debug Lacks an IDE Option. Let’s Fix That! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat
• SlimToolkit: Improving DX with Containers - Making it Easy to Understand, Optimize, and Debug Your Containers | Project Lightning Talk
• Project Overview: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso, CNCF Ambassador
• Meshery: Visualizing Kubernetes Resource Relationships with Meshery | Project Lightning Talk