GC #04 - Back from KubeCon EU

Show notes

Giant Conversations Episode #04

This episode scours the halls of KubeCon Paris to get answers to what everyone is talking about. From what best talks are, to which booth had the best SWAG and even opened up the Pandora's box of Should Open Source Projects be monetized.

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Main topic

Cloud Native Ecosystem Q & A at KubeCon in Paris 2024

Selected Questions

Srsly?

  • In your opinion what are the best subjects covered this year?
  • Can successful open source projects only originate from organizations that don’t prioritize monetizing the project?
  • Should cncf be harder on their requirements for projects that graduate?

LOLZ

  • What's the coolest piece of swag or freebie you've picked up at the conference?
  • If KubeCon had a theme song, what would it be and why? (one answer "it's raining men")
  • What's the most memorable or funniest moment you've experienced at KubeCon so far?
  • Which booth was the best visit and why?

Interviewees

Five main topics stood out to our audience:

  • AI
  • eBPF
  • Web Assembly
  • Sustainability
  • Open Source Monetization

AI

  • Pini Reznik surprised AI is such a topic (they are saying "we just need to do it" and that is all)
  • Udo Seidel would like to know more about the gaps between AI and Kubernetes

eBPF

  • Frederic from Polar Signal noticed a lot more tools associated with eBPF and the adoption has grown in 2023 - 2024
  • Sandy from Grafanna Labs is facinated by eBPF

Web Assembly

  • Financial industry liked Challenging the status quo at Kubecon
  • Basic functionality of Web Assembly

Sustainability

  • Pini Reznik was surprised that sustainability was not a big topic as it had been in the past.

Monetizing Open Source

  • Cortney believes we need to get with the times and hold this discussion. "It's not the 90's anymore"
  • Pini believes that for Open Source to be successful, you need a community
  • Cortney talks about how the incubator she represents, Kubeshop helps open sources maintainers find a secondary project on top of what they are already building.

Hidden Track 1 Clip The word super-interesting comes up with chip sizes. Where the Apple M2 chip is 12 nanometers wide and claims that we are "pretty close" to the physical limits of our hardware. Frederic talks about this alongside how his company Polar Signals as well as Groq are tackling this difference, specifically when it comes to Inference. (14. KubeCon EU 2024_Inference.wav)

News from Swarmalicious

  • Euro-cloud consortium CISPE calls for investigation of Broadcom Lobby group CISPE – a collective representing Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe – has called for regulators to investigate VMware by Broadcom’s software licensing arrangements, claiming will bankrupt some of its members and hurt end-users. CISPE secretary general contended that Broadcom “is holding the sector to ransom by leveraging VMware’s dominance of the virtualization sector to enforce unfair license terms”. He called for Broadcom to be designated as a gatekeeper under Europe’s Digital Markets Act.
  • Spot Instance Availability Map This map displays real-time Spot instance interruptions, insufficient capacity events, and pricing across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Looks like Buoyant are doubling down on their decision -- following the announcement from a few weeks ago that Bouyant would no longer be shipping stable release artifacts in open source and would instead focus its efforts on Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, Buoyant CEO, William Morgan posted an update on LinkedIn, and it’s looking like they are still happy with the decision they’ve made.
  • Redis is no longer open source All future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses. According to this blog post, in practice, nothing changes for the Redis developer community who will continue to have access to permissive licensing under the dual license; Redis will also continue to support its vast partner ecosystem – including managed service providers and system integrators. It really means that you can't provide a managed service or Redis, like cloud providers do, without agreeing to a license.
  • How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption? Cloudflare translates photos of 100 lava lamps into random data for use in SSL encryption.

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