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| Hello from a quiet, hybrid KubeCon |
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| October 2021 |
Downtown Los Angeles is the sunny backdrop for my third KubeCon. True to form, the attendees are diverse, collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and in unrelenting demand. The scale of systems running on open source projects emerging from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation—starting with Kubernetes—is massive. There are talks about everything from career burnout to creating serverless systems that optimize machine learning workloads so you spend less on GPU instances.
Big brands are here recruiting for thousands of engineering positions to build out the tools we’ve come to depend on for movie streaming, ride sharing, energy, finance, shopping, and more. That said, the event is also virtual, and in-person attendance is low. This gives vendors time to discuss partnerships. Startup founders stroll over to Oracle’s booth to inquire about running on Oracle Cloud.
“I’m here because we’re revitalizing our commitment to the CNCF,” says Seattle-based Dan Gerrity, senior vice president for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure developer services and a member of the CNCF governing board. “I’ve ended up spending a lot of quality time with the CNCF people.”
—Alexandra Weber Morales, Oracle Director of Developer Content |
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