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Mitch Connors – From Biblical Studies to programming at Google & Amazon
Mitch Connors – From Biblical Studies to programming at Google & Amazon
Where does an associate’s degree in a major totally unrelated to tech get you in software engineering? It got CNCF Ambassador Mitch Connors to Google, Amazon, and beyond – with his ingenuity and the level turf of open...
October 19, 2023

Meltwater
Meltwater
Live Migration to Cilium for Richer Features Meltwater has about 350 Engineers spread around the globe in 40+ fully autonomous teams working on their suite of software tools and services to help organizations monitor and analyze online news,...
August 17, 2023

Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Enforcing Efficient Network Security with Cilium Bloomberg offers a host of financial products to its clients, including BQuant Enterprise, which enables users to build, test, and share research internally within their financial institution as interactive applications, enabling a...
July 26, 2023

Adriana Villela –  Blogging and podcasting her way to cloud native enlightenment 
Adriana Villela – Blogging and podcasting her way to cloud native enlightenment 
Throughout her career, Adriana Villela, senior developer advocate at Lightstep from ServiceNow, has experienced the power of communication and community for solving big challenges at work and outside of it.  Today, through her blog, co-hosting the On-Call Me...
July 4, 2023

Kaslin Fields – Cooking up bite-sized tech communications 
Kaslin Fields – Cooking up bite-sized tech communications 
What do containers and cookies have in common? The answer is Kaslin Fields, who blends her deeply technical background with fun, creative communications to help thousands of folx around the world learn about containers. From chairing SIG Contributor...
June 6, 2023

ClickHouse
ClickHouse
Building an Efficient Networking Layer with Cilium ClickHouse has three teams working together on their cloud offering: the control plane team, the data plane team, and the core team. ClickHouse Cloud runs across AWS and Google Cloud but...
June 1, 2023

Ascend
Ascend
Ascend is the leader in Data Pipeline Automation for building the world’s most intelligent data pipelines. It’s a single platform with intelligence to detect and propagate change across your data ecosystem and ensure accuracy end-to-end. Customers automate up...
March 2, 2023

Datadog
Datadog
Problem: Limited scalability with iptables, IPVS, and kube-proxy Datadog runs 10s of Kubernetes clusters, across multiple cloud providers. Some of them have up to 4,000 nodes, which makes for 10,000s of hosts in their infrastructure. Datadog’s SaaS product...
October 11, 2022

Ericom
Ericom
Ericom protects clients from web-based malware Founded in 1993, Ericom provides zero-trust cybersecurity solutions, enterprise grade secure remote access, and desktop virtualization (VDI) to a global customer base of more than 30,000 midsize to Fortune 500 organizations. Ericom’s...
September 9, 2022

Yuan Tang – From Argo to Mentoring and everything in between
Yuan Tang – From Argo to Mentoring and everything in between
Yuan Tang’s name is associated with some of the most touted projects in open source. Co-chair of Kubeflow and a maintainer of CNCF’s Argo as well as TensorFlow and XGBoost, Yuan is also a founding engineer at Akuity,...
August 29, 2022