Day -2

The saturday was dominated by Cloud Native Rejekts hosted at Miro’s offices in Amsterdam, ~1-2km from the convention center. It’s a small “B-Side” community-event that features talks rejected (hence the name) from KubeCon alongside original talks. They have high selection standards leading to a high talk-quality.

This being a smaller event (I’d guess sub 200 attendees) makes it a very good start to the week. Good talks, nice people (and not too many people) enables interesting conversations without being complete mental overload.

And each year’s attendees tend to overlap quite a bit so it’s an opportunity to reconnect. I have to admit that I’m very bad with names and don’t always regocnize people but having highlighter-green hair just brings the other people to you (who remeber you from last year or other events). 10/10 would recommend dying your hair again.

Talk recommendations

• If you’re building operators: Solving Operator Extensibility: A gRPC Plugin Framework for kubernetes
• The idea behind The self-improving platform: Closing the Loop Between Telemetry and Tuning is very interesting but the first half of the talk is kinda confusing as it discusses a study that could have been shortened drasticly. But the way they automaticly create PRs for resource utilizations is cool

Other stuff I learned or people i talk to

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