KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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11:15 BST

Dapr + Score: Mixing the Perfect Cocktail for an Enhanced Developer Experience - Mathieu Benoit, Humanitec & Kendall Roden, Diagrid

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Developer Experience (DevEx) is an important concept in Platform Engineering and in the cloud native space, advocating for self-service and reduced cognitive load. Its primary goal is to empower developers, allowing them to focus on coding rather than fighting with infrastructure intricacies. What is the right level of abstraction? Which type of tooling is essential? How can teams identify the concepts and workflows that drive value and success?
Tools such as Dapr and Score are being used in innovative ways to make a wider range of developers more productive. On one hand, they allow the Developers to be abstracted from underlying infrastructure and dependencies. On the other hand, Platform Engineers can easily configure the building blocks and associated infrastructure, seamlessly for the Developers.
This talk demonstrates a practical blueprint between Dapr and Score, where you will see how to deploy any Dapr containerized workloads defined by Score, to Docker Compose or Kubernetes.

Speakers

Mathieu Benoit

Cloud Native Ambassador & Customer Success Engineer, Humanitec

I’m passionate about Cloud Native Computing technologies driven by Open Source, Cloud, Security, SRE, Containers, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Kubernetes. Based on my past experiences as software engineer, IT consultant, solution architect and customer success engineer, I now... Read More →

Kendall Roden

Technical Product Lead, Diagrid

Kendall is a Technical Product Lead at Diagrid, helping shape the future of cloud-native development through the creation of developer-centric products. After 6+ years at Microsoft in a variety of roles in the application development space, Kendall transitioned into product management... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:00 BST

From 0 To Production-Grade With Kubernetes Native Development - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Kevin Dubois, Red Hat

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

This session will give you an overview of cloud native fundamentals from a Java developer’s perspective. You will learn step-by-step how to get your application to production on Kubernetes without sacrificing your developer experience.

Kevin and Thomas will cover:
- Building and deploying containers easily, featuring Buildpacks, Podman, and Knative.
- Optimizing your application’s performance in cloud native and serverless environments.
- Coding and testing cloud native Java applications with Podman Desktop and Microcks.
- Enabling observability for your cloud native applications using OpenTelemetry to pinpoint errors and performance issues in production.
- Integrating with other services using Kubernetes Service Bindings.

This session will help you develop better cloud-native Java applications, including a comprehensive understanding of the development and operational perspectives in a Kubernetes environment.

Speakers

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, Systematic

Thomas is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions. He is the author of the "Cloud Native Spring in Action" book and plays an active role in the community as a CNCF Ambassador and Co-Chair of the CNCF App Development Working Group. A strong advocate of open... Read More →

Kevin Dubois

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Building WebAssembly Like It's 2011 - David Justice, Microsoft

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Building WebAssembly (Wasm) components is a complex process which causes folks a lot of pain getting started with Wasm. In this talk we are going to take it back to 2011 when Buildpacks were introduced, discuss how Buildpacks smoothed over difficulties building software, and how we can apply Buildpacks to solve the same developer experience problems we were solving back then. The old is new again, and by the end, you too will be building your Wasm components across languages with ease using Buildpacks.

Speakers

David Justice

Principal Engineer Lead, Microsoft

David Justice is a Principal Software Engineer Lead in Microsoft's Azure Container Upstream team. He leads teams focused on high performance Kubernetes cloud infrastructure, micro-virtual machines, and server-side WebAssembly. David is also a co-chair of the TAG-Runtime Wasm working... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Application Development

Content Experience Level Beginner

15:15 BST

gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It? - Konstantin Ostrovsky, Torq.io

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Ever found yourself at a crossroads, deciding on a communication protocol for your backend applications? It's a pivotal choice that can shape your project's future. Five years ago, I took the plunge and went all-in on gRPC, embracing it for both backend-to-backend and frontend-to-backend communication.

Join me as I unravel the twists and turns of my gRPC adventure. I'll shine a light on the hurdles we faced and the victories we celebrated. But more importantly, I'll reveal why, looking back, I'm convinced we made the right call.

Whether you're a gRPC veteran or just protocol-curious, this talk will equip you with insights to make informed decisions for your own projects. Let's decode the gRPC experience together!

Speakers

Konstantin Ostrovsky

Software Architect, Torq.io

I'm a long time software engineer. Currently work at Torq.io as Chief Architect. I started my journey as a Windows Internals engineer (C,C++) in the field of cyber security. For the past 10 years I've been working at multiple early stage SaaS startup companies in different roles... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Application Development

Content Experience Level Beginner

16:15 BST

How the SIG-Multicluster API Specifications Are Used for Real World Multicluster Management - August Simonelli, Red Hat & Ryan Zhang, Microsoft

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Nearly everyone touches multiple clusters today, often resorting to bespoke management systems. But did you know that Kubernetes SIG-Multicluster has published specifications covering multicluster management which are actively used in production environments today?

This talk will review real-world implementations as demonstrated in the Open Cluster Management project (OCM-io) and KubeFleet (kubernetes-fleet.io).

We'll begin with an overview of key Multicluster API concepts from SIG-Multicluster exploring how the upcoming ClusterProfile API provides a standard way to represent clusters. We'll demo how OCM-io and KubeFleet use some of these APIs, such as the Work API for workload placement across clusters and the Multicluster Services API for managing endpoints and traffic policies.

If you manage – or plan to manage – multiple Kubernetes clusters across public and private clouds please join us to learn how these specifications can improve your multi-cluster management experience.

Speakers

August Simonelli

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

August Simonelli is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat. He has worked with customers around the world to help them adopt, use, improve, and implement open source technologies. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, August now lives in Sydney, Australia and is a strong advocate for using... Read More →

Ryan Zhang

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Dr. Ryan Zhang is a Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft, working on Azure Kubernetes Service Team. Ryan has been working on Cloud Native open source projects for the past few years including CloudEvents, Open Application Model (OAM) and multi-cluster related initiati... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 BST

A Practical Guide To Cloud Native Solutions: Demonstrating ROI and Business Impact - Danielle Cook, StackGen & Simon Forster, Stackegy

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Navigating the cloud-native landscape can be daunting, especially when deciding whether to buy a commercial solution, invest in open source technologies, plan significant process change, or undertake building platforms. But once you’ve evaluated the technologies, run POCs, and planned out your processes, how do you convince your business to invest? In this practical session, we’ll give real world case studies of companies evaluating technologies and transformation and how they were able to convince “upper management” of the benefits.

We will spend the session going through the different materials and frameworks to create business alignment and even provide templates for calculating ROI, including development and operational efficiency, cost savings, and business agility metrics.

Whether you're a startup or an enterprise, this session will equip you with actionable steps to use when you present cloud native solutions for budget and investment.

Speakers

Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Stackegy

Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →

Danielle Cook

StackGen, VP

Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Building a Ubiquitous Cloud Native: Beyond the Intersectionality - Carol Valencia, Elastic; Pawel Piwosz, Tameshi; Satyam Soni, Devtron Inc.; Anita Ihuman, MetalBear; Audra Montenegro, CNCF

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Communities are the backbone of innovation and collaboration, but how do diverse geographies, cultures, problems, and challenges influence the way these communities operate? Leaders from Latam, Africa, Europe, and India will share their unique stories, solutions, and insights, highlighting both the similarities and differences in community building across regions. The discussion will focus on improving guidelines for supporting underrepresented groups, developing strategies to strengthen local chapters, breaking down silos, and addressing regional challenges.

A CNCF Community Manager will moderate the discussion, sharing challenges raised by organizers worldwide and exploring how approaches to community building vary across regions. By the end of this panel, attendees will be inspired to cultivate respectful and inclusive communities for everyone. KubeCon, in particular, embodies a unique blend of cultures and languages.

Speakers

Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic

Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →

Anita Ihuman

Developer Adbocate, MetalBear

Anita is a developer advocate and technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She champions the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an... Read More →

Audra Montenegro

Community Program Manager | KCDs & CNCGs, CNCF

Audra Montenegro has spent nearly ten years organizing global events, with seven of those years working on content for large tech conferences and small summits with O’Reilly Media. Currently she is a Community Program Manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) running... Read More →

satyam soni

OSS Developer, Devtron Inc.

Satyam is OSS Developer at Devtron, Google Summer of Code Mentee 2024 at OpenSUSE,Kubernetes Release Notes Lead and Shadow v.130 & v1.31, CNCF Ambassador, and Cloud Native Community Groups New Delhi Organizer. He focuses on developing and contributing to open-source software. He holds... Read More →

Pawel Piwosz

Cloud Solution Architect, Tameshi

Docker Captain. DevOps Institute Ambassador. CD.Foundation Ambassador. AWS Community Builder. Engineer, leader, mentor, speaker. My focus is on CALMS. I am building better understanding of DevOps as driver for the organization. I am devoted to Serverless and CI/CD. I authored... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

Cloud Native Communities in Action: How Japan Shaped Its Path To KubeCon - Ota Kohei, Apple; Shu Muto, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.; Yuichi Nakamura, Hitachi, Ltd.; Sunyanan Choochotkaew, IBM Research; Noriaki Fukuyasu, The Linux Foundntion

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

This session will discuss the importance of local communities in bridging the gap between local developers and the global cloud-native ecosystem.

Since the beginning of KubeCon history back in 2015, adding new regions to the KubeCon calendar is a rare milestone, and we imagine many attendees may wonder what it takes to bring this flagship event to their own regions.

By focusing on the Japanese community’s journey, we will examine the ongoing efforts to build strong networks while facing challenges like language, timezone and regional barriers that continue to hinder international engagement.

This panel will also share the unique challenges faced by Asian communities, such as linguistic and cultural differences, and what lessons attendees can take back to strengthen their own regional ecosystems—and perhaps even host KubeCon in their region one day.

Speakers

Noriaki Fukuyasu

VP of Japan Operations, The Linux Foundation

VP of Japan Operations at Linux Foundation.

Yuichi Nakamura

Head of OSPO, Hitachi,Ltd

Yuichi Nakamura,Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed to SELinux, given presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in... Read More →

Kohei Ota

Senior Field Engineer, Apple

Kohei Ota is a Senior Field Engineer at Apple. He is one of the Japanese localization leads for Kubernetes SIG Docs, and prev KubeCon speaker and co-chair of KubeDay Japan 2024. Beyond his professional roles, Kohei is instrumental in organizing CloudNative Days, the most prominent... Read More →

Shu Muto

Principal Software Engineer, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.

Shu Muto is a maintainer for the Kubernetes Dashboard since Autumn 2019 and a chair for SIG UI. Previously, he contributed to the OpenStack Dashboard and its plugins as a core developer from 2015. Shu also develops WebRTC applications. He organizes Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan... Read More →

Sunyanan Choochotkaew

Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research

Sunyanan Choochotkaew is a staff research scientist at IBM Research - Tokyo, specializing in distributed computing and performance acceleration on cloud platforms. She holds the role of maintainer of Kepler project. She has made contributions to Environmental Sustainability TAG, operator... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

15:00 BST

Hot Takes: Kubernetes Paintainers Bring the Heat - Ian Coldwater, Docker; Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Taylor Dolezal, Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Kat Cosgrove & Xander Grzywinski, Independent

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of one of the world's largest open source projects? Join us for a spicy twist on the traditional panel format, where Kubernetes SIG leads tackle increasingly challenging questions about project governance, technical architecture decisions, and community building - all while braving progressively hotter…hot sauces!

Modeled after the popular "Hot Ones" interview format, this session features technical leaders from across Kubernetes sharing candid insights about the joys and challenges of OSS maintenance. As the heat builds, they'll reveal the inside story of key technical decisions, discuss strategies for building consensus across competing interests, and share invaluable advice for aspiring contributors.

Whether you're a current maintainer, a new contributor, or just curious about Kubernetes development, watch these brave maintainers bring the heat - literally and figuratively!

Speakers

Ian Coldwater

Senior Principal Security Architect, Docker

Ian Coldwater is co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Security, a longtime community organizer, and a security researcher specializing in hacking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native infrastructure. When they're not busy making good trouble, they like to read all the docs... Read More →

Kat Cosgrove

Open Source Advocate, Independent

Kat is a Developer Advocate focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the Kubernetes... Read More →

Taylor Dolezal

Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem at CNCF, is an experienced technologist with a passion for cloud native technologies. He has a rich background in software development, infrastructure management, and open source and is deeply committed to community-building and knowledge sharing... Read More →

Xander Grzywinski

Open Source Program Manager, Independent

Xander is an open source program manager with experience at a wide array of companies. Previously he worked in various roles on platform and open source teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, and HashiCorp. When not at a computer, you'd most likely find him at a pottery wheel.

Marly Salazar

Staff Engineer, Integral Ad Science

I am a software engineer with a heavy background in legacy and on premises systems, and migrating those to the cloud, modernizing and automating them. I have been working on the kubernetes project for a year and a half, primarily on kubectl.

Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

Navigating the Inevitable: Kubernetes Breaking Changes Behind the Scenes - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

You're looking forward to a new feature, waiting for the release day like it’s Christmas morning. Suddenly, the feature is dropped from the release. Even worse, a feature you heavily depend on is unexpectedly deprecated or removed. What now? Negative emotions take over, you feel sad, frustrated, and even angry at the project and its maintainers. Fortunately, this doesn't happen too often. But it does happen.

The Kubernetes maintainers strive to make users satisfied, but they also have to prioritize the health of the project and the well-being of the maintainers. To do that, they sometimes have to make breaking changes, even on short notice, as hard as it might be. In this talk, we'll dive into some of those decisions, see what went on behind the scenes, and talk a bit about Kubernetes policies. Finally, we'll explore _your_ options as an end user, how you can be better informed, how you can provide feedback on proposed changes, and how you can help the project!

Speakers

Marko Mudrinić

Senior Software Engineer, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union

Marko is a Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic, working on the development of Kubernetes, kcp, and platforms for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. He currently serves as a Subproject Lead for Kubernetes Release Engineering, a Senior Release Manager, and a Tech Lead for SIG... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer - Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

One of the core parts of any open source project is community – after all, you need people to write the code, and people to use the code. However, you also need people to: raise awareness about the project, drive the adoption and implementation of the project, and to connect these intersecting groups.

There are, of course, many ways to do this and build a thriving project community. In this session, Reese Lee and Adriana Vilella will share how they support and help build the OpenTelemetry (OTel) community through their work as a Maintainer of the End User SIG, including:
* Improving the project via collaborations with other OTel SIGs
* Driving contributions to the project
* Demonstrating business value to end users
* Driving adoption through connecting end users and contributors

Reese and Adriana will also share some of the misadventures that happened along the way, and make sure attendees leave equipped with strategies they can implement today to build and grow their open source communities.

Speakers

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →

Reese Lee

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

Reese Lee is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, where she is focused on enabling customers and colleagues on OSS via workshops, blog posts, and documentation. She enjoys figuring out solutions to technical problems, learning about interesting user stories and use... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

Challenges of and Solutions for Migrating Spark From Legacy Hadoop Clusters To Kubernetes - Peter Christensen & Neha Singla, Apple

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

While there are performance and security reasons for operating Spark from bare metal Apache Hadoop clusters, cloud-based installations using Kubernetes as the cluster manager are becoming more and more mainstream due to superior scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness for variable workloads. However, the migration of Spark from bare metal clusters to a cloud-based cluster environment poses a number of non-trivial challenges from a technical as well as from a human/organizational perspective. Specifically, these challenges include but are not limited to dealing with difficulties in achieving query performance parity, differences in scheduling and resource management, security in a multi-tenancy context, and the provisioning of sufficient introspection for aiding diagnostics and configuration adjustments. This case study recounts challenges encountered and solutions implemented while migrating Spark from bare metal to Kubernetes managed cloud in a large corporate environment.

Speakers

Peter Christensen

Software Engineer, Apple

Senior software engineer with multi-disciplinary background in various fields such as electronic design automation, materials science, and large-scale distributed processing and cloud computing

Neha Singla

Senior Software Engineer, Apple

Neha Singla is a software engineer with Data platform team in Apple who provides Jupyter notebooks solutions at scale to help data scientists/data engineers at Apple build great data products. She is working with Apple for 2+ years and have experience building platforms at scale with... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:00 BST

Zero Trust at Shopify Scale: Automating MTLS Across Thousands of Services - Dani Santos & Michelle Mali, Shopify

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Certificate management at scale presents critical challenges for securing service-to-service communication in zero trust architectures. We will demonstrate how Shopify automates mTLS across thousands of services, addressing certificate rotation without interruption, renewal failures, and cross-cluster distribution. Drawing from production experience, we'll explore our evolution from custom admission controllers to versatile patterns working across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes environments, including mounting CA certificates at container startup with periodic Cronjob renewals. We'll share code examples for resilient rotation mechanisms, graceful certificate rollover, and RBAC. Attendees will learn practical patterns for scaling mTLS, with examples of monitoring certificate lifecycles and troubleshooting common failure modes.

Speakers

Michelle Mali

Infrastructure Security Engineer, Shopify

Michelle Mali is an Infrastructure Security Engineer at Shopify, specializing in securing cloud-native environments. With experience in Kubernetes and container security, they hold the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certifications... Read More →

Dani Santos

Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer, Shopify

Dani Santos is a Senior InfraSec Engineer at Shopify, focusing on service identity and PKI infrastructure at scale in cloud-native environments. She's involved in certificate management initiatives across Shopify's internal services, developing solutions for automated mTLS flows... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:45 BST

Type-safe Feature Flagging in OpenFeature: Lessons Learned From Using Feature Flags at Google - Michael Beemer, Dynatrace & Florin-Mihai Anghel, Google

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Feature flags are a great way to release software faster while minimizing deployment risks. They allow for controlled releases of new or complex features. However, a common issue with most feature flag SDKs in use today is that they rely on hardcoded strings to identify feature flags, leaving code vulnerable to typos or references to stale flags. This can lead to a mismatch between flags used in code and flags configured in your flag management system, resulting in unexpected application behavior.

In this talk, we will discuss a solution to this challenge using OpenFeature, a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging. Inspired by lessons learned at Google, we've designed the OpenFeature CLI to seamlessly integrate into your development workflow. We'll demonstrate how strongly typed feature flag accessors, created with the CLI, can be used to overcome these issues while also significantly improving the developer experience.

Speakers

Michael Beemer

Senior Product Manager, Dynatrace

Michael co-founded the OpenFeature project, helping to bring standardization to the feature flagging community. He is a Senior Product Manager at Dynatrace with years of experience in the observability space working as a Consultant, DevOps Engineer, Software Developer, and Product... Read More →

Florin-Mihai Anghel

Software Engineer, Google

Software Engineer with a passion for everything that connects people and can improve the world.

Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

13:45 BST

How Millennium Bcp Leverages Radius To Empower Developer + Operator Collaboration - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Jonathan Smith, Microsoft

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:10 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Collaboration between developers and operators is essential to building scalable, resilient application platforms, but achieving this alignment is often easier said than done. In this session, learn how Millennium bcp, Portugal’s largest privately-owned bank, has successfully bridged this gap using Radius, a CNCF sandbox project. By adopting Radius as a universal language for their application platform, Millennium bcp has streamlined the application lifecycle and enhanced team collaboration.

We’ll explore how Radius helps decouple applications from infrastructure to foster operational flexibility and how GitOps tools like Flux complement Radius to enable declarative management of resources, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.

Whether you’re a developer, operator, or platform engineer, this session will provide practical strategies, actionable insights, and inspiration for building cohesive, future-ready application platforms.

Speakers

Nuno Guedes

Cloud Compute Lead, Millennium bcp

I am the Cloud Compute Lead at Millennium bcp, Portugal's largest privately-owned bank, with several years of experience in designing and leading the implementation of cloud-based solutions prioritizing containers. In addition to the Cloud Compute team, I am responsible for the Infrastructure... Read More →

Jonathan Smith

Product Manager, Azure Open Source Incubations, Microsoft

Jonathan Smith is a veteran product leader at Microsoft focused most recently on early incubations including: the Parallel Computing Platform, Cloud Engineering Systems, IoT, and cloud-based production of film and television content. Jonathan currently leads product management for... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Stateful Connections in Kubernetes: The Scaling Secrets Nobody Talks About - André Mocke & Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer, Miro

Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Dive into how Miro scales real-time collaboration with long-living TCP connections at its core. Learn how we built and deployed a custom a WebSocket manager in Kubernetes, leveraging connection rebalancing, draining, and graceful shutdown techniques, while maintaining enterprise level compliance. Discover the k8s operators that made it possible, the design decisions we nailed (and the ones we regretted), and how we tackled unforeseen challenges. This is your backstage pass to engineering the intelligent canvas!

Speakers

Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Miro

A Software Engineer and Cloud Native Specialist with 20 years of experience, currently serving as Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Miro. Specializing in building high-performance platforms and ensuring system reliability, I leverage extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes... Read More →

André Mocke

Software Engineer, Miro

I'm a Full-stack engineer with north of a decade of experience in a variety of industries, from agriculture to finance, now, multiplayer online games where we get sued if we lose data (Miro). More recently I've taken the opportunity to dive deeper into developing platforms for Infrastructure... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate