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We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTEL: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ Clusters - Yash Sharma & Kunju Perath, DigitalOcean
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DevOps & Platform Engineering
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026
The Cloud Native Computing Foundations flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon.
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Talks
Day 3
31 talks
The Future of Kubernetes Scalability: Challenges of the GigaWatt Computing Power of the AI Era - Maciek Różacki, Google Cloud & Artur Rodrigues, Anthropic
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Helm 4 Is Here. So, Now What? - Andrew Block, Red Hat; Scott Rigby, Replicated; Robert Sirchia, SUSE
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Amplifying End User Voices: Platform Architects on the Future of Kubernetes - Rajas Kakodkar & Zach Shepherd, Broadcom; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA; Elias Tarn, AWS; Dawn Chen, Google
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Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering - Jared Watts & Adam Wolfe Gordon, Upbound
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API is the New SSH: Forging a Zero-Trust VM Platform on Kubernetes - Evangelista Tragni, Devoteam
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API-Driven Infrastructure as Code: Kubernetes APIs as the Contract Bridge Between Teams - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
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Bringing Cloud Native PaaS To Space: Onboard Edge Computing for Satellites - Adele Karam Hankache, Thales Alenia Space & Sergiu Weisz, POLITEHNICA Bucharest
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Accelerating Thanos at Scale: Faster and Cheaper Queries With Parquet - Giedrius Statkevičius, Vinted
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1000 Services, 1 Year, 0 Downtime: Airbnb's Zonal Cluster Migration - Sunny Beatteay, Airbnb
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Declarative Edge Kubernetes: Immutable Clusters with Talos + Zarf - Brandt Keller, Defense Unicorns & Merijn Keppel, TrueFullstaq
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Schema Inference and Automation: A New Era for Telemetry Management - Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix & Arthur Silva Sens, Grafana Labs
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Retroactive Sampling with OpenTelemetry: Cut 90% Distributed Tracing Bandwidth Usage - Roman Khavronenko & Zhu Jiekun, VictoriaMetrics
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The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Kubernetes - Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds
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Smoothed and Anchored Rate Calculation in PromQL - Björn Rabenstein, Grafana Labs
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OpenCost - Cost and Resource Management Deep Dive - Rajith Attapattu, Randoli
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Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You - Verena Traub, b'nerd GmbH
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OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates - Jade Guiton, Datadog; Dmitrii Anoshin, Cisco; Alex Boten, Honeycomb; Evan Bradley, Dynatrace LLC; Antoine Toulme, Splunk
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OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics - Robert Pająk, Splunk
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OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts' - Pablo Baeyens, Datadog; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs; Severin Neumann, Causely
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From Alert Fatigue To Self-Healing: Building AI-Enabled Control Planes in Banking - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
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A Tale of Two KEPs: How the Community is Taming Kubernetes' CrashLoopBackoff - Yang Li, Google
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Flipping the Curve: A Platform Engineer's Guide to Unlocking the Silent 80% - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°
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No Pain No Drain: Lessons From Node Drains at Scale - Ryan Hallisey & Natalie Bandel, NVIDIA
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Observing Chaos: Real-Time Monitoring of AI-Driven Kubernetes Destruction - Josh Halley, Cisco & Ricardo Aravena, CNCF
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LLM Inference at Scale: Orchestrating Prefill-Decode Disaggregation - Zhonghu Xu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
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Moving Spotify's Infrastructure Management Up the Stack from Kubebuilder to Kro and K-poperator - Alexander Buck & Tomas Aschan, Spotify
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Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in-the-loop - Alvaro Saurin & Jose M Navarro, Adobe
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Leveling up with Radius: Custom Resources and Headlamp Integration for Real-World Workloads - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Will Tsai, Microsoft
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No Shame, Just Pain: How We Migrated Away From Kubernetes 1.16 in 2025 - Jannis Relakis & Michael Seiwald-McCarty, Celonis
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When OTTL Goes Off the Rails: Debugging Transformations with Confidence - Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic & Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb
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Day 4
38 talks
Generalizing Kubernetes Controller Sharding: Patterns That Work Beyond Simple Operators - Motohiro Otsuka, LY Corporation & Tomoyuki Nakamura, LY Corporation
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How Much Platform Is Enough Platform? - John Keates, Wehkamp Retail Group
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From Projects to Products: The Sociotechnical Journey Behind Sony's Internal Cloud Platform - Eugenia Bergman & Hagen Tonnies, Sony Interactive Entertainment
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From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Crossplane and Sharded Kargo - Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall, Raiffeisen Bank International
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Disaster Resilient Trino on Kubernetes: Multi-Cluster Setup With Karmada and Trino Gateway - Sung Yun & Antoine Marthey, Bloomberg LP
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Ghost in the Platform: How the Dutch Tax Authority Built a Service To Scale K8s To 99+ Applications - Jerry van Hulst, Belastingdienst & Marcel Kerker, HCS Company B.V.
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Rabobank's Path to Secure, Fast Kubernetes Delivery - Beatrice Forslund & Koshin Verberne, Rabobank
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Inside Saxo Service Blueprint: Implementing Kubernetes Operators for Legacy Enterprise Infrastructure - Oskar Kristiansen, Saxo Bank
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Panel: How Platforms Can Save Junior Engineers (and Thus the Tech Industry) - Jennifer Riggins, The New Stack; Leena Mooneeram, Chainalysis; Molly Clarke, easyJet; Paula Kennedy, Syntasso
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How to Build a European Cloud Orchestration Platform From Within an Enterprise - Maximilian Techritz & Johannes Ott, SAP SE
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Fluent Bit V5: Pushing the Limits of Observability at Scale - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company
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Banking on Reliability: Cloud Native SRE Practices in Financial Services - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinance
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The Missing Half of Performance Profiling: Understanding Memory in Cloud Native Systems - Dom Delnano, Cosmic
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Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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The State of Backstage in 2026 - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
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Let Your Network Speak! - Nadia Pinaeva, NVIDIA & Joel Takvorian, Red Hat
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The Hyperscale Uncertainty Principle: Debugging Tail Latency in a Trillion-Object System - Yashraj Kakkad, Google
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Pay Less for More: A Practitioner's Playbook for Kubernetes Autoscaling - Malgorzata Widelicka & Lukasz Ogrodowczyk, Roche
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📚 Tutorial: Full-Stack Observability on a Budget: A Guide to Strategic Sampling and Data Optimization - Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
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DNS Tracing & Metrics Via eBPF in OpenTelemetry - Endre Sara, Causely & Nikola Grcevski, Grafana Labs
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The Next Chapter of Developer Experience: TAG DevEx in Action - Julien Semaan, Kubex; Graziano Casto, Akamas; Mona Borham, swengin.io; Kevin Dubois, IBM; Daniel Oh, IBM
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GenAI Observability: Keeping GenAI Honest Without Oversharing - Liudmila Molkova, Grafana Labs
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Enriching Telemetry Signals Through Lookups in the OTel Collector - João Duarte, Elastic
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Scaling Platform Engineering: Lessons From Europe's Largest Enterprises - Cat Morris, Syntasso; Stéphane Di Cesare, DKB; Anna Kozachenko, Amadeus; Gayathri Thiyagarajan, AWS
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How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money - Juliano Costa, Datadog & Yuri Oliveira, OllyGarden
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Unleashing Event Driven Capabilities With KEDA - Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hub & Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify
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OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers - Lukas Reining, codecentric AG; André Silva, LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Thomas Poignant, Gens de Confiance; Alexandra Oberaigner, Dynatrace
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Building a Kubernetes Platform That Scales From SaaS To Self-Managed - Florian Forster, GitLab
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⚡ Lightning Talk: "Naming Things Is Hard": A Guide to Naming Using Network Science - Nick Travaglini, Honeycomb.io
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⚡ Lightning Talk: Avoiding CPU Throttling: How Go 1.25's Container-Aware Runtime Fixes GOMAXPROCS - Adarsh K Kumar, Rapido
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⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Years of Building Platforms in the Public Sector - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Norwegian Government
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Platform Mesh: Breaking API Lock-In for True Multi-Cloud Service Portability - Mirza Kopic, SAP & Mangirdas Judeikis, Independent
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One Controller to Rule Them All - Taming Multiple Orchestrators at Uber Scale - Srikar Paruchuru & Egor Grishechko, Uber
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Jaeger V2: The Maintainers' Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native Tracing - Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
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In-place Updates with Cluster API: The Sweet Spot Between Immutable and Mutable Infrastructure - Fabrizio Pandini & Stefan Büringer, Broadcom
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Confidential Platforms for Regulated Industries - William Rizzo, Mirantis
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OpenAPI Meets Kubernetes: Auto-Generating CRDs and Operators the Smart Way - Sergiusz Urbaniak & Jose Vázquez González, MongoDB
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TAG Operational Resilience: Sustainability Month To Release Guidelines - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Carol Valencia, KrolCloud; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Saiyam Pathak, vCluster
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Day 5
24 talks
Is the Agent in the Room with Us Right Now? - Nick Rutigliano & Andrew Halaney, Netflix
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Redefining SLIs for LLM Inference: Managing Hybrid Cloud with vLLM & LLM-D - Christopher Nuland & Hilliary Lipsig, Red Hat
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Spin-Up, Test, Tear-Down: How Trivago Runs Developer Preview Environments at Scale - Armin Aminian, Trivago & Jan Wozniak, Kedify
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Collisions in the Dark: Illuminating the 95% of Kubeflow You Can't See - Amine Lahouel & Laura Llinares, CERN
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Scaling the Kubernetes Ecosystem: Uber's Approach to Cluster Lifecycle Management - Silvio Simunic & Vadim Plakhtinskii, Uber
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Kill the Ticket Queue: A CNCF Blueprint for Self-Service Platforms - Bhavani Indukuri & Aparna Prabhu, DigitalOcean
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Making Topology-Aware Scheduling Practical for AI Workloads: From Discovery to Simulation at Scale - Weizhou Lan, Daocloud
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K8s-sigs NFD × SYLVA: Declarative Image-to-Node Compatibility for Telco Clouds. - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Chaoyi Huang, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd
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Evolving Policy Management with Agentic AI: Kyverno MCP and Kagent for Multi-Cluster Governance - Shuting Zhao, Nirmata & Dahu Kuang, Alibaba Cloud
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Freedom Through Boundaries: Building Configurations That Age Well - Bogdan Stancu, Adobe
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Enforce VIP Access Only Through Node Attestation - Alice Frosi & Jakob Naucke, Red Hat
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Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry - Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero
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Prometheus V3 One Year In: OpenMetrics 2.0 and More! - Jan Fajerski, Red Hat & Bartłomiej Płotka, Google
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The Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in Action - Felix Geisendörfer, Datadog & Florian Lehner, Elastic
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Discover Cortex: High Scalability Metrics in 2026 - Friedrich Gonzalez & Charlie Le, Apple
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Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
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Stop Flying Blind: Real-Time, Enforceable Cluster-Wide Quotas with Kyverno and KRO - Mariam Fahmy, Nirmata & Adam Crowder, AWS
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The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom - Fabian Schulz & Jelena Malic, Swisscom
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Buildpacks: Towards 1.0, AI and Other Things - Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg
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18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF Tools - Simon Schrottner, Dynatrace & Manuel Timelthaler, Tractive
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Platform Engineering 2.0: Just-Enough Kubernetes and AI-Native DevOps - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com
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Taming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows With Dapr and OpenTelemetry - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid & Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
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Three Shades of Isolation: A Multi-tenancy Fortress - Braulio Dumba & Paolo Dettori, IBM
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Cutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observability Blueprint - Iris Dyrmishi & Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer, Miro
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