API World + CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit 2024: Full Schedule

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10:30am PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Which Vault? Don’t Tell Me Your Secret(s)!

Wednesday November 6, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST

Michel Schildmeijer, SSC-ICT, Lead Technologist

Secret management is a crucial aspect of DevOps, as it involves the protection of sensitive data that is used by applications and services. Secrets can include API keys, credentials, tokens, certificates, and passwords that grant access to various resources and systems. If these secrets are compromised, attackers can exploit them to cause damage, steal information, or disrupt operations.
One of the challenges of secret management is how to securely store, distribute, and rotate secrets in a dynamic and distributed environment. Traditional methods of hard-coding secrets in configuration files or environment variables are not secure, scalable, or reliable. Moreover, secrets need to be updated frequently to comply with security policies and regulations, and to prevent unauthorized access.
To address these challenges, several tools and frameworks have been developed to provide secret management solutions for DevOps.
These tools can help DevOps teams to implement best practices for secret management.

Speakers

Michel Schildmeijer

Lead Technologist, SSC-ICT

Michel started his career as a medical officer in the Royal Dutch Airforce, with a focus on pharma. After the air force, he continued in pharma, followed by time working in clinical pharmacology. While there, he transitioned to IT by learning UNIX and MUMPS, and developed a system... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, DevSecOps

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure, DevSecOps (CloudX), CloudX: DevOps Summit, Deployment Strategies (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): How We Implemented Zero Trust Security Using Cilium

Wednesday November 6, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Lakmal Warusawithana, WSO2, Technology Evangelist

Implementing a zero trust approach is essential for security, as it involves verifying and validating every request, irrespective of its origin or location.

In the initial implementation of Choreo, our internal Developer Platform as a Service, we faced challenges in controlling all network access and enforcing authentication, authorization, and seamless network traffic encryption at scale, which is vital for the Choreo cloud service. However, by employing Cilium, K8s, and a cell-based architecture, we were able to develop a scalable platform that upholds zero trust security principles.

The combination of Cilium's eBPF-powered layer 3, 4, and 7 network policies, Hubble Observability, IPSec security, and a cell-based architecture enabled us to address all the critical elements of a zero trust platform successfully.

In this talk, I will detail all the challenges we faced and the strategies we employed to overcome them.

Speakers

Lakmal Warusawithana

Technology Evangelist, WSO2

Lakmal Warusawithana is the Senior Director - Cloud Architecture of WSO2. Lakmal has a long history of working in open source, cloud, and DevOps technologies and has been Vice President of Apache Stratos PaaS Project. Lakmal has also presented at numerous events, including ApacheCon... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure, Cloud Security

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, Cloud Security (CloudX), CloudX: DevOps Summit, DevSecOps (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Thinking Beyond Chatbots! - What’s Next for Observability + AI

Wednesday November 6, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Ruchir Jha, Cardinal, CEO

Ever felt like RunBooks are just bandaids for tech mishaps? They pop up after an incident and only help when the same gremlins strike again. But where’s the RunBook for leveling up your troubleshooting game (fast)? Every company is a unique beast with its own architecture, tech stacks, and dependency webs. Scrambling to link faces with systems and knowing who to call during a crisis can be stressful.
And then there’s the real kicker: How do you gauge the true business fallout from an outage, and and determine the best course of action? What if Observability Tools could pull something like your IDE, learning from “anonymous usage stats” to improve over time for everyone on the team? Imagine tapping into the instincts of senior engineers and sharing their troubleshooting savvy across the board. My talk dives into how Retrieval Augmented Techniques (RAG) in AI can make this more seamless in reality.
Join me to explore how we can turn troubleshooting into a collective superpower!

Speakers

Ruchir Jha

CEO, Cardinal

Ruchir is the co-founder and CEO of Cardinal, which helps improve the ROI (Return On Investment) of an existing Observability Stack. In his previous life, he spent 7 years as a Lead Engineer on Netflix's Observability team, where he built petabyte-scale Observability products that... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, Observability

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: DevOps Summit, Observability (CloudX), CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, Microservices Design (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Boosting Developer Productivity: Implementing Efficient Pipelines with Helm & CI/CD

Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Sanyogeeta Lawande, Ford Motor Company, Software Engineer

In today's fast-paced development environment, efficiency is key. In this talk, we will explore the implementation of efficient CI/CD pipelines to ensure that testing on the development branch is smooth and unblocked. By leveraging Helm and advanced pipeline strategies, developers can enjoy a more seamless integration process, reducing bottlenecks and enhancing productivity. Learn practical techniques and best practices to optimize your development workflow, enabling your team to deliver high-quality software faster and with greater confidence.

Speakers

Sanyogeeta Lawande

Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Sanyogeeta is a seasoned Software Engineer specializing in scaling and optimizing complex, high-volume data systems. Currently, she is shaping the future of automotive telemetry at Ford, previously at Autonomic LLC in Palo Alto, CA, where she has scaled telemetry streaming services... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, CI/CD

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CI/CD (CloudX), CloudX: DevOps Summit, CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure, Deployment Strategies (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): Observability & OpenTelemetry 101 for Developers

Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage

Mike Simon, Splunk, Staff Developer Evangelist - Observability

In today’s cloud-native world, developers need to innovate faster while maintaining the reliability and performance of their applications. In this session, you’ll learn about why observability matters for developers and how it lets you spend more time coding and less time fixing things. You’ll also see a demo of how to automatically instrument your applications with Splunk’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector, and learn why OpenTelemetry is the most important skill you can learn in 2024.

Speakers

Mike Simon

Staff Developer Evangelist - Observability, Splunk

Mike Simon is a Staff Developer Evangelist at Splunk, where he has been part of the team for two years. In his tenure at Splunk, Mike has held roles as an Observability Strategist and Technical Architect.Before joining Splunk, Mike built a distinguished 16-year career as an Observability... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, Dev Innovation (CloudX), Observability (CloudX), Future of Cloud-Native Computing (CloudX), CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, CloudX: DevOps Summit, CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference, CloudX, Expo Challenge
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Automated Retry Strategy: A Smart Way to Provision Cloud Resources

Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST

CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

Vicky Deliwala, Cisco Systems, Software Engineering Leader

In the modern era of the cloud environment, users needs to think about handling the temporary service interruptions caused by API and micro-services failure.
As the applications interact with remote services and cloud resources, transient faults are more likely to be encountered.
Events such as API’s throttle limits, connection failures, Quota exhaustion, power outage etc. can lead to such unwanted
faults and not so good user experience.

The best practice in such scenarios is to come up with an automated and intelligent retry mechanism which can hide the temporary exceptions from the customers. Challenges faced while designing such strategy are fault identification, tracking
Retry counter, appropriate log instrumentation and custom fallback. This presentation will focus on defining a smart Retry strategy along with specific guidelines to overcome
such challenges gracefully. Through a deep dive into real world scenario, this session will walk-through the design/architecture of RESTful API’s to provision OpenStack VMs along with NoSQL. It will showcase the profound Retry Logic implementation
using the Cron job and scheduler which can significantly improve user experience.

Most important things that people will learn from presentation:

- Transient failures in cloud native apps and how to utilize smart and profound logic to mitigate those challenges.
- Walk through the workflow of a real life scenario to understand the best practices in integrating automated Retry strategy while designing API driven micro-services.

Speakers

Vicky Deliwala

Software Engineering Leader, Cisco Systems

Vicky Deliwala is a Software Engineering Leader at Cisco Systems, who shepherds B2B API modernization. He is responsible to provide the technical thought leadership, establish innovative enterprise-level strategy and build highly resilient APIs for Commerce Workspace.12+ years of... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, API World

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference API World, CloudX, OPEN Session, CloudX: DevOps Summit, Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting (CloudX), API World: API Lifecycle, API Design / Architecture (API World), Microservices Design & Architecture (API World), API World: Microservices World
In-Person/Virtual In Person

4:00pm PST

CloudX Roundtable: Akash Bhaskar, Software Architect, Cisco

Wednesday November 6, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST

CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

Roundtables give attendees the opportunity to meet in small groups with API World, CloudX + Dev Innovation Summit speakers and industry leaders to discuss real-world topics relevant to you. These open roundtables are working sessions for in-depth industry conversations.

Speakers

Akash Bhaskar

Software Architect, Cisco

Akash has over a decade of experience including Site Reliability, DevOps, IT Operations, Middleware Administration, ITIL and Managed File Transfer. Cisco has provided Akash an opportunity apply SRE principles to network operations. Akash has presented at Cisco Live EMEA at Amsterdam... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2024 4:00pm - 4:25pm PST
CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: DevOps Summit, CI/CD (CloudX), OPEN Session, Roundtables
In-Person/Virtual In Person