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