Security driven development does little good if your own front door is left wide open. This session will dive into modern auth techniques with a little history from RBAC to ABAC and how to implement passwordless access to your most critical resources.
Chase is a Principal Strategist at JumpCloud, designing authentication strategies and evangelizing customer solutions. He has been working in venture-backed startups across identity, security, integration, and DevOps for the last decade. Chase is a frequent speaker on topics from... Read More →
How to write interactive web applications with HTML and a minor open-source extension, HTMX. There is no need for JavaScript.
This is an alternative to the traditional frontend stack (React/Angular, TypeScript, building, etc.), which can feel over-engineered in many use cases.
It allows all engineers to contribute to the front end from their native environment.
Jacek started a career as an engineering intern at NVIDIA CUDA and Facebook. He joined pre-revenue startup Sumo Logic as ~20 Sumo Logic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved back to Poland and opened an office with 80+ full-time engineers. We optimized gross margins on AWS and... Read More →
Vilas Veeraraghavan, Truckstop, Vice President, Engineering
Cloud computing is mainstream now and businesses must choose between the flexibility of multi-cloud strategies and the focused efficiency of single-vendor solutions. This talk delves into the challenges and learnings from past experiences at Netflix (single cloud vendor approach) and Walmart (hybrid/multi-cloud).
A single-vendor strategy can offer exceptional scalability and reliability by leveraging deep expertise and tight integration with a specific cloud provider. We will delve into the benefits of this approach, including optimized performance, streamlined operations, and the potential risks of vendor dependency.
On the other hand, a multi-cloud approach enhances resilience, avoids vendor lock-in, and provides cost optimization opportunities. This session will examine how to manage the complexities of integrating multiple cloud services, ensuring interoperability, and achieving operational agility.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into the trade-offs and strategic considerations involved in choosing a cloud strategy. Whether your organization is leaning towards the agility of multi-provider solutions or the specialized focus of single-vendor expertise, this talk will equip you with the knowledge to navigate the complexities of cloud management effectively.
Vilas has spent his past work life at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart and Bill building high performance teams that focus their attention on automation, chaos engineering, CI/CD at scale and improving developer productivity across the enterprise by enabling engineers to do more with tools... Read More →
Bhavin Desai, Google, Cross-Cloud Network Product Lead
Organizations increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies to enhance agility and avoid vendor lock-in. However, this complexity creates challenges in networking, security posture management, and application development. This abstract highlights the potential of service-centric networking to streamline secure connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It also explores AI-powered network security capabilities, including zero-trust architecture, next-generation firewalls, secure web proxies, and data loss prevention. By integrating these solutions, organizations can proactively defend their cloud networks, protect workloads, secure data, and ensure user security, ultimately accelerating distributed application development while maintaining a robust security posture.
Highly accomplished cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity professional with a strong background in product management, technical solutions architecture, and cloud engineering. Proven expertise with 11+ years of experience in leading strategic initiatives, designing scalable solutions... Read More →
Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks, Sr Software Engineer
Managing a vast fleet of Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP is often fraught with inefficient manual processes involving scripts and pipelines. These methods are time-consuming, error-prone, and consume valuable engineering resources. In this session, I will present how we addressed these challenges at Databricks by developing an automated system for the lifecycle management of over a thousand multi-cloud-managed Kubernetes clusters. Our solution features a Kubernetes-style continuous reconciliation mechanism for cluster provisioning and deprovisioning, a fast and reliable cluster state change discovery system integrated with Databricks’ product services, and blue-green cluster rotations (cluster swaps) that allow for seamless upgrades by creating new clusters with updated configurations and shifting workloads without downtime. This automation enables us to implement major infrastructure changes and upgrade Kubernetes versions with low risk through staged rollouts, seamless rollbacks, zero downtime, and minimal operator intervention. I will share our methodologies and experiences in constructing this loosely coupled system that orchestrates product workloads and cloud provider APIs.
I am a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of experience in designing and managing large-scale platforms in cloud-native environments. At Databricks, I have led and contributed to several innovative projects that have scaled and automated our Kubernetes Compute Platform... Read More →
Security driven development does little good if your own front door is left wide open. This session will dive into modern auth techniques with a little history from RBAC to ABAC and how to implement passwordless access to your most critical resources.
Chase is a Principal Strategist at JumpCloud, designing authentication strategies and evangelizing customer solutions. He has been working in venture-backed startups across identity, security, integration, and DevOps for the last decade. Chase is a frequent speaker on topics from... Read More →
How to write interactive web applications with HTML and a minor open-source extension, HTMX. There is no need for JavaScript.
This is an alternative to the traditional frontend stack (React/Angular, TypeScript, building, etc.), which can feel over-engineered in many use cases.
It allows all engineers to contribute to the front end from their native environment.
Jacek started a career as an engineering intern at NVIDIA CUDA and Facebook. He joined pre-revenue startup Sumo Logic as ~20 Sumo Logic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved back to Poland and opened an office with 80+ full-time engineers. We optimized gross margins on AWS and... Read More →
Vilas Veeraraghavan, Truckstop, Vice President, Engineering
Cloud computing is mainstream now and businesses must choose between the flexibility of multi-cloud strategies and the focused efficiency of single-vendor solutions. This talk delves into the challenges and learnings from past experiences at Netflix (single cloud vendor approach) and Walmart (hybrid/multi-cloud).
A single-vendor strategy can offer exceptional scalability and reliability by leveraging deep expertise and tight integration with a specific cloud provider. We will delve into the benefits of this approach, including optimized performance, streamlined operations, and the potential risks of vendor dependency.
On the other hand, a multi-cloud approach enhances resilience, avoids vendor lock-in, and provides cost optimization opportunities. This session will examine how to manage the complexities of integrating multiple cloud services, ensuring interoperability, and achieving operational agility.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into the trade-offs and strategic considerations involved in choosing a cloud strategy. Whether your organization is leaning towards the agility of multi-provider solutions or the specialized focus of single-vendor expertise, this talk will equip you with the knowledge to navigate the complexities of cloud management effectively.
Vilas has spent his past work life at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart and Bill building high performance teams that focus their attention on automation, chaos engineering, CI/CD at scale and improving developer productivity across the enterprise by enabling engineers to do more with tools... Read More →
Bhavin Desai, Google, Cross-Cloud Network Product Lead
Organizations increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies to enhance agility and avoid vendor lock-in. However, this complexity creates challenges in networking, security posture management, and application development. This abstract highlights the potential of service-centric networking to streamline secure connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It also explores AI-powered network security capabilities, including zero-trust architecture, next-generation firewalls, secure web proxies, and data loss prevention. By integrating these solutions, organizations can proactively defend their cloud networks, protect workloads, secure data, and ensure user security, ultimately accelerating distributed application development while maintaining a robust security posture.
Highly accomplished cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity professional with a strong background in product management, technical solutions architecture, and cloud engineering. Proven expertise with 11+ years of experience in leading strategic initiatives, designing scalable solutions... Read More →
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.
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 →
