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

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9:00am PST

Tesla Self Driving Demonstrations

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:00am - 4:00pm PST

Expo Hall

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:00am - 4:00pm PST
Expo Hall

2. Experiences & Official Events, API World

Track or Conference API World, CloudX, Dev Innovation Summit
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Navigating the Ethical Terrain of AI-Enhanced Marketing Automation: Strategies for Responsible Innov

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Sravan Yella, Hewlett Packard, Lead Solutions Engineer

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in marketing, particularly through social media, presents profound opportunities and ethical challenges that demand careful consideration. As AI technologies like Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and predictive analytics become central to marketing strategies, they facilitate unparalleled personalization and efficiency in analyzing vast datasets and optimizing marketing efforts. Despite these advancements enhancing customer engagement by 40% and reducing operational costs by 30%, the rapid proliferation of AI tools in marketing raises significant ethical concerns. Key issues include the potential for data privacy breaches, the accuracy and bias in AI algorithms, and the lack of transparency in AI-driven decisions. These challenges not only affect consumer trust, which has seen a decline of 20% in brands using AI indiscriminately but also pose risks to brand integrity and compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks. To navigate this landscape responsibly, this presentation will explore best practices and frameworks for ethical AI usage in marketing. We will discuss the implementation of rigorous data governance protocols that ensure user data protection and privacy, techniques for auditing and mitigating biases in AI models to boost decision transparency, and strategies for maintaining compliance with international data use regulations. By fostering an ethical AI deployment approach, companies can enhance customer satisfaction by 25% and improve brand loyalty. This talk aims to equip professionals with actionable insights to leverage AI in marketing ethically and sustainably, ensuring long-term business success and consumer trust.

This abstract emphasizes the balance between leveraging AI's capabilities and addressing ethical considerations, backed by relevant data points to enhance its appeal to conference reviewers.

Speakers

Sravan Yella

Lead Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard

Sravan Yella is an expert CRM Engineering Leader with extensive experience in leveraging exponential backoff strategies to enhance the robustness and efficiency of distributed systems. His strategic implementations have significantly reduced downtime and improved system response in... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, AI & ML

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, AI & ML (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

9:30am PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): Surging Supply Chain Attacks: Risks and Defenses

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Richard Clark, JFrog, Senior Solutions Architect

As supply chain attacks continue to evolve and proliferate, there is a critical need for organizations to fortify their defenses. Especially with the ever growing usage of open source technology in today’s software landscape, open source vulnerabilities have become a prime target for attackers seeking widespread impact. In this session, Richard Clark, Senior Solutions Architect at JFrog will emphasize the importance of proactive measures, including educating developers to use reputable tools, and adopting software composition analysis to safeguard against the growing menace of supply chain vulnerabilities.

In this session, Richard will also discuss:
How software bills of materials or SBOM standards, such as CycloneDX and SPDX, enhance visibility into software dependencies;
The rapid adoption of faster release cycles in business operations and how it heightens vulnerabilities in supply chain management;
The importance of collaboration between security teams and developers.

Speakers

Richard Clark

Senior Solutions Architect, JFrog

Richard is a Senior Solutions Architect with JFrog. He is also an entrepreneur/inventor, having previously run a startup in the Internet of Things space, where he holds technology patents and has been a key member of several M&A startups. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and traveling... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 9:30am - 9:55am PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX: DevOps Summit, DevSecOps

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

10:00am PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Unlocking Live Data Access for AI

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST

API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage

Anushrut Gupta, Hasura, Senior Product Manager, Generative AI

“Over the last 3 months, summarize the top billing issues faced by my enterprise customers within the first 30 days of their onboarding.”

On the surface, building an internal AI customer intelligence application that can answer questions like this is a perfect use-case for Gen AI.
However, building a production ready app that retrieves the data (RAG) before hauling it off to your favorite LLM for summarization soon becomes a terrible engineering experience.

The data is spread across 3 places: a tickets database (eg: elastic), a CRM (eg: salesforce) and your user-accounts transactional database (eg: postgres).
In production, your app can’t access the data from these databases directly. Given security & privacy concerns, your app won’t have direct access to these databases.
Making independent retrieval requests to each of these sources and then joining them in memory might be prohibitively expensive and needs a level of query planning to do efficiently.
Moving all data into one location is expensive to build, maintain and govern
Predictable quality is further made hard because underlying data formats and storage interfaces are continuously changing.
Different types of user queries might require additional filtering and joining of data, which becomes hard to generalize.

APIs solve almost all of these very well known challenges. APIs offer standardization and security. APIs can provide a stable contract to interact with underlying data.

And in all likelihood, you already have APIs on these internal and external data sources.

Ironically, while APIs have become a necessity for other parts of the stack, they are clearly not the first thing that AI engineers building RAG reach for.

In this talk, we’ll discuss:
Why API based retrieval doesn’t work well for RAG
What we need from our existing internal and external APIs to make them RAG ready
How we can get existing APIs to become RAG ready without needing to rebuild the APIs

This talk will be technical, with code demos (possibly with some live coding!) and end with key resources (reference architectures, API best practices, tools/technologies) that attendees can take back to their work.

Speakers

Anushrut Gupta

Senior Product Manager, Generative AI, Hasura

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:00am - 10:25am PST
API World -- OPEN Workshop Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, API World

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference API World, OPEN Session, CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, AI & ML (CloudX), CloudX, API World: API Innovation, Emerging APIs: AI & IoT & Blockchain & Web3 & XR (API World)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Type-Safe, Polyglot Messaging and Eventing: Stream/Queue/Topic “Of T”

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Clemens Vasters, Microsoft, Chief Messenger

Speakers

Clemens Vasters

Chief Messenger, Microsoft

Clemens Vasters is Lead Architect in Microsoft’s Azure Messaging team that builds and operates a fleet of hyper-scale messaging services, including Event Grid, Service Bus, and Event Hubs. Clemens represents Microsoft in messaging standardisation in OASIS (AMQP) and CNCF (CloudEvents... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, Microservices Design

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, Microservices Design (CloudX), CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference, Future of Cloud-Native Computing (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): 5 Steps to VEX Success: Managing the End-to-End Workflow

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Cortez Frazier Jr., FOSSA, Principal Product Manager

If you work in vulnerability management or DevSecOps programs, you’re probably familiar with the painful condition known as CVE overload. Each year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are reported, which causes stress and late nights for the teams tasked with remediating them.

And that’s not to mention the herculean tax of distinguishing between potential vulnerabilities and confirmed vulnerabilities. The reality that most vulnerabilities are only potentially exploitable (as determined by the deployed context of each package) also means remediation often results in a lot of wasted time and effort.

A proposed solution is VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange): a set of formats that communicates vulnerability impact status, whether a vulnerability is exploitable in its deployed context, and mitigation steps. In theory, VEX (when used alongside other prioritization inputs) makes it possible to remediate more efficiently. But as with most security frameworks, efficacy depends on proper implementation.

This talk will cover five steps to leveraging VEX throughout the vulnerability remediation lifecycle, from the time a vulnerability is disclosed to the time you publish and distribute a VEX statement. We’ll cover the tools and workflows teams need to know to effectively use VEX in their organizations.

Speakers

Cortez Frazier Jr.

Principal Product Manager, FOSSA

Cortez Frazier Jr. is the product lead for FOSSA’s SaaS and on-premises enterprise applications. FOSSA is a developer tool (in the software composition analysis category) for managing open source license compliance and security vulnerabilities.Before joining FOSSA, Cortez served... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX: DevOps Summit, DevSecOps

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, CloudX, DevSecOps (CloudX), CI/CD (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX):: Managing Data Security in Multi-Cloud Environments

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST

API World -- Main Stage

Kevin Hunt, Cloud Storage Security, CTO

Ransomware attacks, breaches, data exfiltration, and insider disclosures are occurring every day around the world. Legacy thinking on providing data security has been focused on the application and platform or operating system. This leads to a somewhat chaotic data security landscape that is likely to have holes and missed handoffs. Modern enterprise systems use and store data using the most effective platform that delivers the convenience and performance required. This open-ended approach to data handling should be addressed through an equally open and flexible approach to securing data regardless of where it is stored or how and when it is used.
Businesses should take a holistic view of their data security to ensure that unintended gaps and inconsistencies that may open the door for threat propagation are detected and mitigated. Enacting multiple layers of data management practices ensures that both stored and inflight data is clean.
This keynote will draw on the Data Security Maturity Model (DSMM) to illustrate the challenges developers and users face in the open landscape of current application deployments. Placing a strong focus on a layered framework that provides consistent and robust security for data as it is used, this approach incorporates seamless malware scanning and detection that provides a constant watch for irregularities and threats.

Speakers

Kevin Hunt

Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Storage Security (CSS)

As chief technology officer for CSS, Kevin leads the company’s product development, engineering, and customer experience groups in delivering unparalleled cloud storage security solutions that address current and future customer storage security needs. Kevin brings CSS a wealth... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 10:55am PST
API World -- Main Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference, Cloud Security (CloudX), OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

Sponsor Spotlight: mogenius (Live Demo, Live Q&A (post speaking session))

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am PST

Expo Hall

Discover how mogenius empowers developers with seamless Kubernetes self-service to tackle cloud-native challenges and ensure consistent delivery. In the live demo, you’ll see how to easily create customized workflows for independent management of the application lifecycle, all while ensuring compliance across diverse infrastructures and reducing DevOps reliance.

Our team is ready to answer your questions and explore how mogenius can benefit your team as well.

Booth #406

Sponsors

mogenius GmbH

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am PST
Expo Hall

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, OPEN Session, Sponsor Spotlight
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): Responsible AI and Security in the Generative Era: Science and Practice

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Ishneet Dua, Amazon Web Services, Senior Generative AI Solutions Architect
Parth Girish Patel, Amazon Web Services, Sr AI/ML Architect

The rapid growth of generative AI brings promising innovation and, at the same time, raises new challenges around its security, safe, and responsible development and use. These challenges include some that were common before generative AI, such as bias and explainability, and new ones unique to generative models, including hallucinations, toxicity, and intellectual property protection. During this session, participants will gain an overview of the challenges that generative AI presents, survey the emerging science surrounding these challenges, and engage in a discussion about the hands-on, security, and Responsible AI work currently being conducted on AWS.

Speakers

Ishneet Dua

Senior Generative AI Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Ishneet Dua (Isha) is a recognized expert in leveraging AI and machine learning for sustainability solutions. She has established herself as a go-to authority on combating climate change, pollution, and other environmental challenges through cutting-edge technologies.Dua has authored... Read More →

Parth Girish Patel

Sr AI/ML Architect, AWS

Parth Girish Patel is a seasoned architect with a wealth of experience spanning over 17 years, encompassing management consulting and cloud computing. Currently, at Amazon Web Services (AWS), he specializes in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, generative AI, sustainability... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:25am PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, CloudX, CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, AI & ML (CloudX), Dev Innovation (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Infrastructure in a Flash: Deploy via Code in Under 30 Minutes!

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Jagrut Sharma, Adobe, Senior Software Engineer

Unlock the power of managing infrastructure through code in this dynamic session! You'll dive into the fundamentals of infrastructure as code (IaC) with a focus on AWS CloudFormation. Step-by-step, you'll learn how to write your first template to efficiently create, update, and delete cloud resources.

By the end of this hands-on workshop, you'll have added a valuable skill to your repertoire and be equipped with the knowledge to further explore the vast possibilities of infrastructure as code. Join to enhance your technical skillset and embark on a journey of continuous innovation in cloud infrastructure management.

Speakers

Jagrut Sharma

Senior Software Engineer, Adobe

Jagrut Sharma is a senior software engineer at Adobe, where he leads the architecture and development of services enabling innovative machine-learning solutions and use cases. With over 20 years of experience in technology, Jagrut has contributed to a wide variety of projects across... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 11:30am - 11:55am PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, Infrastructure-as-Code

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

1:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): The Critical Role of Observability in Cloud Native Applications: Ensuring Reliability and Minimizing Downtime

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Greg Leffler, Splunk, Director of Developer Evangelism - Observability

As organizations have moved to the cloud and increased their pace of innovation to ship software more often, it becomes harder to validate the impact of changes – both to their business and to their customers’ experience. That’s where Observability comes into play. Observability has emerged as a critical aspect of cloud native applications due to its ability to provide comprehensive insights into the complex and dynamic environments these applications operate within. By enabling real-time monitoring, tracing, and logging, observability allows users to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, improve reliability and build better digital experiences. This is crucial in helping organizations lower the cost of unplanned downtime and be more resilient.

Downtime not only results in direct financial losses, often quantified in thousands of dollars per minute for large enterprises, but also incurs indirect costs such as reduced customer satisfaction, loss of trust, and potential long-term reputational damage. To illustrate these benefits, we will demonstrate a troubleshooting scenario in a microservice environment using an advanced observability tool, showcasing how timely insights can present and resolve issues efficiently. As a result, investing in robust observability tools and practices is essential for maintaining the reliability and efficiency of cloud native applications, ultimately supporting business continuity and growth.

Speakers

Greg Leffler

Director of Developer Evangelism - Observability, Splunk

Greg Leffler heads the Observability Developer Evangelism team at Splunk and is on a mission to spread the good word of Observability to the world. Greg's career has taken him from the NOC to SRE, from SRE to management, with side stops in security and editorial functions. In addition... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX: DevOps Summit, Observability

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, CloudX, Observability (CloudX), CloudX: DevOps Summit, Expo Challenge
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

Sponsor Spotlight: mogenius (Live Demo)

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:45pm PST

Expo Hall

Tired of juggling Kubernetes with manual scripts and tools?

Many teams still rely on manual processes, scripts, or fragmented tools to manage Kubernetes complexity, draining resources and slowing down productivity.

In our live demo, see how mogenius can help your team solve cloud-native challenges with Kubernetes self-service. Create customized workflows to manage the application lifecycle independently, ensure compliance across environments, and reduce the workload on your DevOps team.

Our team is happy to answer your questions.

Booth #406

Sponsors

mogenius GmbH

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:45pm PST
Expo Hall

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, OPEN Session, Sponsor Spotlight
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): Unlocking the Promise of AIOps: Leveraging AI to Realize Full-Context Operations

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Fred Koopmans, BigPanda, Chief Product Officer

Context is fundamental to well-run tech operations: With the right context, IT teams can better understand their systems, interpret real-time data quickly, and facilitate better incident management to achieve operational efficiency. But too often, gathering the necessary context is a lengthy, inconsistent, and elusive process. IT teams are forced to grapple with fragmented tools, siloed workflows, and inconsistent manual processes, which have turned context collection into a definitive pain point for the ITOps industry. Teams are losing out on precious time, money, and attention that should be directed towards digital transformation and innovation.

The tech industry has recently transformed thanks to the AI boom: ITOps is at a critical juncture where AI can enable faster, more efficient ITOps as well as deliver Full-Context Operations. Fred Koopmans, Chief Product Officer of AIOps platform BigPanda, will speak to the promise of Full-Context Operations – the process of unifying IT teams’ tools and processes with AI to provide the institutional knowledge needed to address every incident immediately. He’ll dive deep into the ways that teams can tangibly benefit from having the right context, outlining how the IT industry can leverage AI to collect comprehensive and contextual data to help operators achieve better incident resolution. Fred can share detailed proof points from developing BigPanda’s AI-powered assistant that was purpose-built for delivering full context in IT operations. With Full-Context Operations, the IT industry can finally fulfill the long-sought-after promise of AIOps, putting AI into practice to deliver unprecedented operational efficiency.

Speakers

Fred Koopmans

Chief Product Officer, BigPanda

Fred Koopmans, BigPanda's Chief Product Officer, is dedicated to driving innovation and collaboration, building trusted partnerships with customers, creating product roadmaps, and empowering individuals to achieve the extraordinary. He leads product strategy, product management, product... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX: DevOps Summit, Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: DevOps Summit, Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting (CloudX), CloudX: Cloud-Native Development, AI & ML (CloudX), OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): FinOps 2.0: Integrating GreenOps for a Sustainable Cloud Financial Future

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST

API World -- Expo Discovery Stage

Ashish Bhalgat, Thoughtworks, Cloud Practice Lead / Cloud Strategist

In the ever-evolving landscape of financial operations, a new paradigm is emerging—one that not only optimizes costs and maximizes efficiency but also champions environmental sustainability. Join us for an enlightening session as we delve into the world of 'FinOps 2.0: Integrating GreenOps for a Cloud Sustainable Financial Future.'

In this session, we will explore the crucial intersection of financial intelligence and environmental stewardship, where the principles of FinOps seamlessly integrate with the innovative practices of GreenOps. Discover how organizations can go beyond profit margins to embrace a holistic approach that aligns financial strategies with eco-friendly initiatives, paving the way for a resilient and sustainable future.

Learn actionable insights on sustainable cloud usage, carbon footprint tracking, and the balance between cost and sustainability. This session is a must-attend for those looking to drive both financial and environmental performance in their organizations

Speakers

Ashish Bhalgat

Cloud Practice Lead / Cloud Strategist, Thoughtworks

Cloud Solution Architect / Enterprise Architect – Expertise in Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, IoT Platform, Big Data, Data Engineering, Machine learning application with Computer science professional 18+ years of experience in the Software industry.Currently working as global... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
API World -- Expo Discovery Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, CloudX, CloudX: DevOps Summit, DevSecOps (CloudX), Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

Sponsor Spotlight: Splunk (Live Demo, Live Q&A (post speaking session), Live Raffle/Giveaway, Live Game/Competition)

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:15pm PST

Expo Hall

Join Splunk at booth 309 to keep the conversation going and ask questions after Greg Leffler’s talk on the importance of observability in cloud native applications. Greg will be available to answer questions and the Splunk team will be around to show demos of Splunk Observability Cloud. You can also enter to win some cool Splunk branded swag!

Sponsors

Splunk

Splunk helps make organizations more digitally resilient. Leading organizations use our unified observability and security platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Organizations trust Splunk to prevent infrastructure, application and security incidents from becoming... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:15pm PST
Expo Hall

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, OPEN Session, Sponsor Spotlight
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

KEYNOTE (CloudX): Wherobots -- How Spatial Intelligence is Modernizing Geospatial Data and Predicting the Future

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

API World -- Main Stage

Dr. Mo Sarwat, Wherobots, Co-founder and the CEO

Analyzing geospatial data is essential for businesses to anticipate and tackle real-world problems, from infrastructure and mobility trends to risk management and climate resilience. Mo can dive into the technology and science behind spatial intelligence and how it can be used to analyze geospatial data to enable businesses to grow and adapt.

Speakers

Dr. Mo Sarwat

Co-founder and the CEO, Wherobots

Mo Sarwat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wherobots, and the co-creator of Apache Sedona, an open-source software that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enabling scalable spatial data processing and AI pipelines. Prior to founding Wherobots, Mo served as a tenured... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
API World -- Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference CloudX, OPEN Session
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Building Robust Networks: The Power of CI/CD in Network Validation

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Naveen Achyuta, Roblox, Network Reliability Engineer

While CI/CD practices are well-established in software development, the networking field is still adapting to these methodologies. This presentation demonstrates a method for validating network configurations in a lab environment, both pre- and post-deployment, to build confidence before implementing changes in production networks. Using open-source tools, custom scripts, and containerlab, we'll walk through each step of implementing a CI/CD pipeline. This approach not only enhances confidence in network deployments but also bridges the gap between traditional networking practices and modern DevOps methodologies.

Speakers

Naveen Achyuta

Network Reliability Engineer, Roblox

Naveen works as a Network Reliability Engineer at Roblox and lives in the Bay Area. After graduating with his master's degree, he initially worked as a network engineer at Comcast. He then transitioned to network software engineering to build network automation systems that streamline... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, CI/CD

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, CloudX: DevOps Summit, CI/CD (CloudX), Automated Testing & Monitoring & Reporting (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PST

OPEN SESSION (CloudX): Shifting the Perspective on Security: Putting Security Back in the Design Process

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST

CloudX -- Main Stage

Celina Stewart, Neuvik Solutions, Cyber Risk Lead

Although many organizations incorporate security into the Software Development Life Cycle, it is often treated as a compliance requirement rather than a purpose-built feature. Not treating security as a feature during the design process can lead to rework, extra complexity, or investment in functionality that does not actually address risk effectively. Further, poor integration of security can have a negative impact on otherwise well-designed applications and cause friction in user experience.

This talk encourages attendees to go beyond traditional threat modeling and defense-in-depth techniques to incorporate security as a purpose-built feature in applications. Attendees will receive tactical guidance on how to incorporate security proactively in the design process. Techniques discussed will include: how to use the organization’s risk outlook to prioritize security features; how to avoid unnecessary development costs by proactively anticipating friction in user experience; how to evaluate tradeoffs and invest in the security features needed to prevent the greatest risks.

Speakers

Celina Stewart

Cyber Risk Lead, Neuvik

Celina Stewart is an expert in cyber risk management at Neuvik, a cybersecurity services company. In her current role, she leads Neuvik’s Integrated Risk Management service line, translating technical findings from Red Team Assessments to cogent, tactical strategies to buy-down... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:00pm - 2:25pm PST
CloudX -- Main Stage

OPEN SESSIONS, CloudX

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

2:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION (API): Hackathon Top 5 Demo

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
CloudX -- Expo Innovation Stage

4. Hackathon

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, API World, CloudX
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

KEYNOTE (CLOUDX): Fairwinds -- K8s Is a Big Hammer - Is Everything a Nail?

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

API World -- Main Stage

Andy Suderman, Fairwinds, CTO

It's been 10 years since Kubernetes came on the scene and became synonymous with running containers at scale. Suddenly everyone needed to run their apps in Kubernetes.

Or did they?

I'll discuss the different real-world scenarios where Kubernetes makes sense, and where it doesn't. We'll talk about how the hype of technology can get you into trouble, and how to evaluate when Kubernetes is the right call for your business. Don't walk down the dark alley....unless you need to.

Speakers

Andy Suderman

CTO, Fairwinds

Andy Suderman is CTO at Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider. Andy has worked with cloud native technologies for the last eight years helping organizations adopt and manage Kubernetes. Andy is the creator and primary developer of Goldilocks—an open source tool that... Read More →

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
API World -- Main Stage

5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED, CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, CloudX, CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure, Containers & Kubernetes (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:30pm PST

PRO SESSION (CloudX): Petabyte-Scale Deployments: Balancing Immutability and Flexibility

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST

CloudX -- Stage 1

Anup Ghatage, Salesforce, Lead Member of Technical Staff
Varun Shah, Salesforce, Software Engineer

At Salesforce, our team does Kubernetes deployments at the petabyte scale, with 100+ clusters, 10000+ pods, and 25+ PiB of provisioned storage and innumerable Kubernetes jobs. Operating at this massive scale necessitates an approach that reduces engineering toil. Maintaining such mammoth clusters while keeping security in mind is a whole different challenge.

We specifically talk about how and why we picked immutability and Infra-as-code as the cornerstone of our design and the challenges around it. Immutability provides security and scalability and eliminates config drift. Infra-as-code guarantees that changes to our infrastructure follow the same software lifecycle. but the trade-off is a lack of flexibility to adapt to changing requirements.

In this talk, we go over the unique design choices that help us manage, grow, and configure petabyte-scale deployments at Salesforce.

Speakers

Anup Ghatage

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Anup works on Salesforce's Infrastructure platform.Previously, he has worked on database internals, query processing and storage at SAP, Cisco Systems and other companies for more than 8 years. Anup holds a BS from the University of Pune and an MS from Carnegie Mellon University... Read More →

Varun Shah

Software Engineer, Salesforce

BE with a specialization in Computer EngineeringMS in Electrical EngineeringWorking on enterprise software since 2009 with companies like Brocade (now Broadcom) / VMware and currently with Salesforce.Using cloud native technologies to scale Salesforce software stack.

Thursday November 7, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
CloudX -- Stage 1

CloudX: DevOps Summit, Infrastructure-as-Code

Talk Type PRO Session
Track or Conference CloudX, Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudX), CloudX: DevOps Summit, CloudX: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure, Containers & Kubernetes (CloudX), CloudX: Cloud Strategy Conference, Cloud Talent & Skills (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

3:30pm PST

OPEN SESSION: Closing Remarks + Hackathon Winners

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST

API World -- Main Stage

Thursday November 7, 2024 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
API World -- Main Stage

4. Hackathon

Talk Type OPEN Session
Track or Conference OPEN Session, API World, CloudX
In-Person/Virtual In Person