OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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11:20 CEST

Evolving the YAML Family (without Breaking the World) - Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

YAML turned 25 this year.
It is essential to Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, CI pipelines, and config files for everything in between.
That ubiquity is both a gift and a curse: every change risks breaking something, somewhere, silently.
So how do you grow a data language that a billion files depend on without risk of catastrophe?

Ingy döt Net helped invent YAML and he now maintains the YAML Specification and The YAML Family (libyaml, go-yaml, PyYAML, YAMLStar, YAMLScript etc).
In this talk he'll show how he plans to grow YAML by extension: a plugin system that can deeply affect YAML behavior in completely configurable ways.
Plugin APIs include schema association, tab indent, standard functions, comment support include i18n.
This is being delivered first to go-yaml with the rest of the Family to follow.
The work and its real world feedback will guide future changes to the specification.

Speakers

Ingy dot Net

Invented YAML, YAML LLC

Ingy döt Net is one of the original inventors of the YAML data language, and its primary maintainer. He is also the active maintainer of go-yaml, the YAML framework trusted by Kubernetes and much of its ecosystem,

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

13:30 CEST

How Git Clone Took Down Our CI for 20 Days - Yathartha Goenka, Mercari, Inc.

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

One morning, CI across ~1,800 repos ground to a near-total halt. HTTP 401 from github.com, everywhere. Deterministic, not flaky. Valid tokens, healthy rate limits. GitHub support said "anti-abuse." We said "which abuse?"

Twenty days and 17,863,537 log records later, we'd gone deeper into git's open source plumbing than we ever intended: how git negotiates HTTP auth, what it leaks in user-agents, which config knobs actually matter under load, and how its defaults — sensible on a laptop — behave pathologically behind Kubernetes NAT at 50,000 CI runs a day.

This talk is a forensic walkthrough of git's HTTP transport, told through an outage: the red herrings, the tcpdumps, the fixes that didn't work, the fix that did. You'll leave knowing what git clone really does when you're not looking — and how to configure it so it never makes you look guilty.

Bring popcorn.

Speakers

Yathartha Goenka

Platform Engineer, Mercari, Inc.

A platform engineer at Mercari Japan, leading projects around DX, distributed systems and AI. Been working with backend development using Golang, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and scalable system design. Been learning more about the quiet ways a platform can fall over than I ever meant... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 13:30 - 14:10 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

14:25 CEST

Kata at Scale: The Hidden Cost of Running VMs Behind Every Container - Kavitha Daula & Ann Wallace, Edera

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

There is a big difference between getting Kata Containers running in a proof of concept and operating a large multi-tenant Kata environment for years.

This talk is a practical, vendor-neutral look at what becomes hard after the demo works. Once every pod carries a lightweight VM lifecycle behind it, platform teams are no longer operating only Kubernetes. They are also operating guest kernels, guest images, VMMs, hypervisor behavior, virtio devices, runtime and agent version skew, and a second debugging surface under the container platform.

We will walk through production issues that show up at scale: guest kernel CVEs and regressions, host/guest kernel drift, CNI and tap-device networking, virtio-fs and storage durability semantics, fragmented observability, boot storms, vCPU oversubscription, memory accounting drift, NUMA behavior, GPU passthrough, VFIO/IOMMU lifecycle, upgrade matrices, and incident ownership.

This is not a criticism of Kata. Kata solves a real open source isolation problem. The goal is to help operators understand the operational work required to run VM-isolated containers safely and sustainably in production.

Speakers

Kavitha Daula

VP of Engineering, Edera

Kavitha Daula is the VP of Engineering at Edera, where she leads the development of secure, high-performance container runtime technologies. Previously, she was Senior Director at GEICO, driving innovations in OS, containers, and language runtimes, including a custom Linux distro... Read More →

Ann Wallace

VP of Customer Experience, Edera

Ann Wallace is the VP of Customer Experience at Edera. Before Edera, she held leadership and architecture roles in security and cloud at Okta, Shopify, Google, and Nike. Ann speaks regularly at conferences on topics like compliance, container security, and using storytelling to make... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 14:25 - 15:05 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

15:35 CEST

Embracing Service-Oriented Connectivity Across OpenStack and Kubernetes - Mitsuhiro Tanino & Rei Shimizu, LY Corporation

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Modern infrastructure platforms increasingly combine OpenStack VMs, Kubernetes Pods, managed platforms, and external services, yet connectivity models often remain fragmented across runtime boundaries and tied to infrastructure-specific constructs such as IP-based ACLs.

This session presents how LY Corporation introduced a service-oriented connectivity model across OpenStack and Kubernetes environments. Rather than extending Kubernetes-native service mesh concepts to VM workloads, we introduced a runtime-independent service abstraction where connectivity and policy are defined consistently across VMs, Pods, PaaS instances, and external resources.

Under this model, services become the primary unit for service discovery, authentication and authorization, ACL management, and traffic control, independent of the underlying runtime or network topology. A sidecar proxy enforces service-to-service policy consistently across both OpenStack-managed VMs and Kubernetes workloads.

We cover the architectural design, OpenStack and Kubernetes integration for service registration and identity propagation, and lessons from migrating production workloads at scale.

Speakers

Mitsuhiro Tanino

Senior Software Engineer, LY Corporation

Mitsuhiro Tanino is a senior software engineer who has been working for LY Corporation since 2019. He has experience to contribute OpenStack Cinder project for several years and also contributed Kubernetes sig-storage for several years. His current working area is operating hyper-scale... Read More →

Rei Shimizu

Senior Software Engineer, LY Corporation

Rei Shimizu is working as Software Engineer for Private Cloud in LY Corporation.

Wednesday October 7, 2026 15:35 - 16:15 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

16:30 CEST

Life Finds a Way , Sandboxed Agents, Observable Verdicts - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

"Life, uh, finds a way." So do AI agents. Give one a tool, and a prompt-injected README will teach it to spawn a shell. CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS 10.0) and Google's Antigravity sandbox escape proved the same thing twice in 2025: the agent didn't break the sandbox , either the sandbox was missing, or the electric fence was in the wrong place.
This talk is a tour of Jurassic Park, rebuilt on Kubernetes. The paddock walls are containers. The electric fence is kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox, swapping gVisor for Kata Containers under the same CRD. The control room is OpenTelemetry where invoke_agent, execute_tool, and tool.policy_check spans turn every isolation verdict into queryable telemetry.
We will deploy OpenClaw ,an open-source AI agent gateway inside a Sandbox resource on Cluster API, watch the agent attempt three different escapes, and ship policy decisions as first-class spans. Help shape OpenTelemetry semconv #3583 before the park opens.

Speakers

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate, Dynatrace

Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, the leading Observability platform. Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

17:25 CEST

Teaching BIND9 New Tricks: A Rust Operator for Declarative DNS on Kubernetes - Erick Bourgeois, RBC Capital Markets

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Authoritative DNS is one of the last holdouts against declarative, GitOps-style management. BIND9 still serves a huge share of the world's zone data, but it's driven imperatively: hand-edited zone files, rndc reload, and brittle automation glued on top. bindy is an open-source Kubernetes operator, written in Rust on kube-rs, that closes the gap. It models zones and records as custom resources and continuously reconciles a running BIND9 against them, leaving no orphaned zone file behind.
This talk walks through the architecture of bindy and its sibling projects, bindcar, a sidecar that exposes RNDC operations over a typed API, and hornet, a Rust zone-file parser, then digs into the operator-engineering lessons that transfer to anyone writing controllers in Rust. We'll cover splitting selection from synchronization to avoid reconcile loops, using the reflector and store, modeling ownership and status conditions, and where Rust and kube-rs paid off versus Go's controller-runtime.
Attendees leave with a concrete, reusable pattern for wrapping any stateful, non-cloud-native daemon in a declarative Kubernetes API, and three open-source projects they can adopt, fork, or contribute to.

Speakers

Erick Bourgeois

Head of Kubernetes Platform Engineering, Director, RBC Capital Markets

Erick Bourgeois is a platform engineering specialist focused on Kubernetes operators and infrastructure automation for regulated industries. Creator of Bindy, an open-source DNS controller built in Rust, Erick brings expertise in cloud-native architecture, compliance frameworks (SOX... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 17:25 - 18:05 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

10:50 CEST

From Fragile To Self-Healing: Operationalizing Etcd at Scale - Shreyas Rao & Ishan Tyagi, SAP Labs

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Running etcd across thousands of production Kubernetes clusters reveals critical failures: data corruption, quorum loss, member failures, and storage bloat, all capable of disrupting clusters. Managing these manually is complex, error-prone, and difficult to scale.

In this talk, we will be sharing lessons from 8+ years of operating production-grade etcd at scale with close to zero manual intervention and how we built etcd-backup-restore to reliably automate tasks like scheduled backups, corruption detection, quorum loss recovery, member replacement, and scheduled defragmentation, with zero recorded data loss across thousands of clusters.

Used in production by SAP Gardener, Akamai Cloud, StackIT, and Scaleway, etcd-backup-restore is now a Linux Foundation project under Linux Foundation EU via the NeoNephos Foundation, with an active maintainer community. We'll show what it takes to run etcd reliably at scale, and make it truly self-healing.

Speakers

Shreyas Rao

Senior Software Engineer, SAP Labs

Shreyas Rao is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Labs, working on Project Gardener. He is currently a maintainer of the open source Gardener project, and the original author of `etcd-druid`, the Kubernetes operator that manages the lifecycle of every etcd cluster in Gardener's fleet... Read More →

Ishan Tyagi

Senior Developer, SAP Labs, Bangalore

I am associated with SAP Labs India in Gardener Team & involved in the development of etcd-backup-restore and etcd-druid.
I specialise in working with Cloud native technologies and distributed database.
I love designing systems, solve problems and find easy and better solutions to solve them. I like to learn about the world behind the screen which involves system designs, cloud, virtualisation, databases, servers, and also promising technologies... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

11:40 CEST

Own Your Stack: Sovereign Kubernetes From Bare Metal To Fleet - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson & Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.

Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

For a decade, the default answer to "where does Kubernetes run" was someone else's cloud. But lately, regulated organizations, telcos, banks, and the public sector are pulling sensitive workloads back onto hardware they own and operate — for cost, performance, sovereignty, and increasingly to run AI and GPU workloads they control. The hard part is doing that without giving up the automation the cloud offers.

This talk covers the open-source stack for running your own bare metal, with each layer explained by the people who work on it. At the bottom, Metal3 turns physical servers into declarative Kubernetes resources and manages their lifecycle through the Kubernetes API. At the top, k0rdent manages fleets of those clusters with templates, policy, and drift detection. In the middle sits Cluster API, the standard both layers build on.

We'll walk through the layers working as one — from a rack of bare metal to provisioned clusters to a managed fleet, on hardware we run ourselves. Attendees get a reference architecture, practical guardrails, and clear criteria for when this fits. We'll be honest about the trade-offs: slower provisioning and elasticity bounded by the servers you have.

Speakers

Bharath N R

OSPO Lead, Mirantis Inc.

Bharath Nallapeta leads the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Mirantis, driving strategic open-source initiatives and community engagement. With deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes, he bridges engineering excellence with open-source strategy, helping enterprises... Read More →

Sunnatillo Samadov

Open Source Developer, Ericsson

Sunnatillo is an open-source developer with 5 years of experience in cloud-native infrastructure. He is a maintainer of the Metal³ project (CNCF), where he works on bare-metal provisioning, Kubernetes operators, platform engineering, and CI/CD.

He also contributes to Cluster API, where he was Release Lead for the 1.9 cycle, and to the storage projects Rook and Ceph. He loves DevOps and building reliable Kubernetes platforms... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 11:40 - 12:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

13:50 CEST

Make YAML Dumb Again: The Config as Data Approach - Jaisheesh Venkat Goud, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior & Liam Fallon, Ericsson Software Technology

Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 15:20 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Building on my Google Summer of Code experience, this tutorial addresses one of the major challenges in open source software systems – at scale, file management results in overly complicated templates and bad composability. People put logic into YAML files resulting in non-debuggable pipelines while local modifications are wiped away by upstream updates.
This tutorial delves into the idea of Configuration as Data with the help of kpt tooling allowing for logic separation from configuration files. The idea is to keep YAML "dumb" and pure data, which makes it fully predictable and WYSIWYG.
You’ll get to use the example of the OpenTelemetry Demo - a complex e-commerce microservices application – by packing it in independent and dependent subpackages.
Using KRM functions and custom Starlark scripts you'll:
• switch from a shop selling astronomical equipment to a website offering flowers
• localize languages, currencies, taxes
• manage different deployments sizes (small/medium/large).
As the last point you will use three way merging to allow applying upstream package updates while keeping all local changes safe.

Speakers

Jaisheesh Venkat Goud

Student, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior

Jaisheesh Venkat Goud is a final-year Computer Science student at IIITM Gwalior, India. He is currently a Google Summer of Code contributor to the CNCF kpt project. His interests include cloud native technologies, Kubernetes, developer tooling with particular interest in configuration... Read More →

Liam Fallon

Principal Engineer, Ericsson Software Technology

Liam Fallon is a practitioner delivering Network Automation in open source. He is building the software frameworks needed to realise the promise of automation in modern Telco systems.

He is a maintainer on the CNCF kpt project, a package centric toolchain and package orchestration framework. He is also chair of Nephio SIG-Automation... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 13:50 - 15:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Beginner

15:50 CEST

KubePACS: From Systems Research To Open Source Spot Instance Provisioning on Kubernetes - Kyungyong Lee, Hanyang University

Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Spot instances reduce cloud bills by up to 90%, but choosing which to use is a multi-dimensional puzzle where price, performance, interruption risk, and instance heterogeneity all interact. Kubernetes provisioners like Karpenter optimize a narrow slice of this problem, tightly coupled to a single cloud vendor, AWS.

KubePACS is an open source project that separates the decision from the execution. A vendor-neutral optimizer computes the best mix of instance types for a workload's cost-performance-availability profile, then translates that into native configuration for the user's provisioner

The talk goes deep into the system: the ILP-based selector for cost-performance-availability trade-offs, the GSS-driven optimizer that tunes them automatically, multi-node spot placement awareness for robust capacity across cloud providers, and clean integration with upstream Karpenter.

Attendees see measured gains over baseline configurations and take away an architecture pattern for performance-aware spot instance provisioning. We close with our intent to grow KubePACS as an open source community effort and welcome contributors to shape what comes next.

Speakers

Kyungyong Lee

Associate Professor, Hanyang University

Kyungyong Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Data Science at Hanyang University, South Korea. His research focuses on developing cost-efficient and highly available distributed big data and AI platforms on the cloud. Before joining academia, he worked as a software... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 15:50 - 16:30 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Advanced

16:40 CEST

Stateless by Design: Lessons From Building Infrastructure-as-Code Without Local State - Prashansa Kulshrestha, Kong Inc

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Most IaC tools, Terraform chief among them, keep a local copy of state to plan changes, detect drift, and resolve references. That state file is also a known source of pain: it can go stale, get corrupted, and become a coordination bottleneck.

What happens when an IaC system deliberately keeps no local state? Instead of a stored snapshot, every operation reconciles desired configuration against live state at apply time. That single choice shapes everything else, and not all of it is smooth sailing.

Drawing on her experience building widely adopted open-source declarative CLIs, Prashansa unpacks the lessons she learned. The talk covers the tradeoffs statelessness forces: full-state sync versus additive configuration and when each fits, resolving references without a stored dependency graph, schema-aware diffing, and transparent reconciliation so users see what a tool does. It also covers production challenges: compatibility across platform versions, evolving schemas, and keeping behaviour predictable as systems grow.
Attendees will leave understanding why most IaC tools rely on state, what gets simpler and harder without it, and how to weigh these tradeoffs in their own systems.

Speakers

Prashansa Kulshrestha

Senior Software Engineer, Kong Inc

Prashansa is a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, where she designs and builds open-source CLIs that teams use to manage their infrastructure declaratively through GitOps-style workflows. She thinks of the command line as a product, with developer experience and predictable, user-first... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 16:40 - 17:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:05 CEST

Lightning Talk: Declarative Systems Still Have Hidden State - Kim Schaefer, Game Plan Tech

Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:15 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Declarative infrastructure promises reproducibility: desired state is defined, controllers reconcile drift, and redeployments should behave predictably.

Except they often don’t.

This talk explores the hidden operational state declarative systems quietly depend on: webhook certificates cached in cluster resources, infrastructure dependencies that survive deletion, controller ordering assumptions, persistent node state, and lifecycle coupling reconciliation engines cannot see.

These problems become especially visible when infrastructure spans multiple systems or workloads take minutes rather than seconds to initialize.

Using real operational examples from Kubernetes and GitOps environments, this lightning talk examines why “delete and redeploy” frequently fails to produce clean state and why many reliability problems are actually hidden state-management problems.

The core lesson: declarative systems still depend on operational history, even when the infrastructure appears fully declarative.

Speakers

Kim Schaefer

Senior DevOps Engineer, Game Plan Tech

Kim Schaefer is a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, and secure platform engineering. She designs and operates production Kubernetes platforms with a focus on deployment reliability and automation in constrained environments.

Kim's work centers on bu... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 11:05 - 11:15 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

11:15 CEST

Lightning Talk: One Line of YAML Leaks Your Secrets: The Pwn-Request Pattern - Arpit Jain, Self Employed

Friday October 9, 2026 11:15 - 11:25 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

A pull_request_target trigger plus ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} in a checkout step. That combination lets any external contributor run arbitrary code with your repository's secrets and write token. This is the "pwn request" pattern, and it's in production workflows across some of the most popular open-source projects on GitHub.

I'll use a real finding (a CRITICAL-severity pwn request I discovered and privately disclosed in an Apache project) to explain how the attack works: what pull_request_target does differently from pull_request, why adding permissions: read-all doesn't protect you, and why the attacker needs nothing beyond opening a pull request.

Then I'll show the three mitigations that work: splitting into unprivileged build and privileged post-processing steps, using persist-credentials: false, and gating on the head repo matching the base.

Speakers

Arpit Jain

Security Researcher, Self Employed

Supply-chain security researcher focused on CI/CD pipeline vulnerabilities. Audits GitHub Actions workflows across CNCF, sigstore/SLSA, OpenSSF, and US federal government orgs (cisagov, GSA) for exploitable patterns: pwn requests, unpinned actions, token-scope misconfigurations. Has... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 11:15 - 11:25 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Beyond Immutable Machines: Introducing Cluster API In-Place Updates - Lennart Jern, Ericsson Software Technology

Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cluster API (CAPI) is by now a relatively mature project with many adopters using it in production already for years. Despite this, or perhaps rather thanks to it, CAPI keeps evolving, growing and adding new features. In this session, I'll present one of the most recent features: in-place updates.

In-place updates marks an important change to a fundamental assumption in CAPI. Traditionally, the Machines were considered mostly immutable. Any change required a replacement where new Machines were created and old Machines deleted. This method of operation has served CAPI well, and continues to do so, but it is not without pain points. With in-place updates, it is now finally possible to avoid replacement. This opens the door for unique use-cases and solutions, such as Talos, where each node's lifecycle can be managed through a built-in controller in the node itself.

Come learn about this new feature in CAPI, and how to make use of it!

Speakers

Lennart Jern

Senior Developer, Ericsson Software Technology

Lennart Jern is a senior developer at Ericsson with more than 6 years experience from the CNCF ecosystem. He works mainly on open source projects related to the Cluster API and is a maintainer for the Cluster API Metal3 and OpenStack infrastructure providers as well as the Baremetal... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 11:25 - 11:35 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

11:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Prove It: Is Your Kubernetes App Cloud Native? - Martin Matyáš, Tieto

Friday October 9, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Everyone claims their app is cloud-native. But how to prove it?

CNTi Testsuite, an open-source Linux Foundation project, provides automated tests that validate cloud-native best practices such as security, scalability, and upgradability. While designed for telecom CNFs, it works for any Kubernetes application.

In this lightning talk, I’ll show how you can run CNTi Testsuite in minutes to objectively measure cloud-native maturity and uncover hidden gaps in Kubernetes workloads.

Speakers

Martin Matyáš

Lead Cloud Engineer, Tieto

Lead cloud engineer with 20+ years of experience in application development and testing mostly in telecom industry. Worked on various aspects of Telecom software, from platforms, applications, test tools, continuous integration. Active member and maintainer of LFN's CNTi communit... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 11:35 - 11:45 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:55 CEST

Your Agent Did What? Forensic Observability for Systems That Don’t Leave Obvious Footprints - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0

Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

The GenAI observability space is fragmented right now. OpenInference, OpenLLMetry, framework-specific conventions are all solving the same problems with incompatible attribute names. That made sense when OTel’s GenAI support was thin. It makes less sense today.

OTel is where this converges. Getting there from where most teams actually are isn’t obvious. Kasper and Adriana cover the current landscape, how the genainormalizer processor bridges the gap at the collector layer, and what a realistic path to OTel-native GenAI observability looks like.

Then the harder question: your agent just deleted a database. What does your telemetry actually tell you? Non-deterministic systems don’t leave obvious footprints, and most teams discover that at the worst possible time.

Speakers

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

Adriana Villela is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out podcast, CNCF Ambassador, OpenTelemetry Community Manager, and maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG. By day, she focuses on Observability and OpenTelemetry, as a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace. By night, she... Read More →

Kasper Borg Nissen

Principal Developer Advocate, Dash0

Kasper is a CNCF Ambassador, former KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Co-Chair, Golden Kubestronaut, KCD Organizer, and CNCG Group Organizer. He co-founded Cloud Native Nordics to unite meetups across the region. At Dash0, he helps make observability easy for developers by advocating for better... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

14:00 CEST

Container Metrics on Diverse Hardware: Driving Observability, Efficiency, and Real-Time Autoscaling - Sambhav Jain & Digvijay Singh Shekhawat, Uber

Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Uber runs about 4 million containers on over 150,000 hosts. Our fleet includes a mix of cgroupv1 and v2 hosts, multiple cloud providers, and multiple Linux kernel versions. Tracking container performance at this massive scale is a difficult engineering challenge, including the cost of storing them. We currently process 60 million data points every second to keep everything running smoothly.

We run Cadvisor and open-source Nvidia and AMD GPU metrics exporters to reliably and affordably collect and store these metrics. This infrastructure is vital for our real-time autoscaling, which ensures our services stay online. We also use these metrics to track memory usage and keep costs low for our AI workloads. Despite maintaining all the critical use cases, we have saved around $ 4 million compared to last year by changing how we collect and store data.

We will share how we use these metrics to detect and prevent system failures before they affect users. Attendees will learn practical patterns for operating container metrics at scale. We will also discuss the hard lessons we learned while building a reliable metrics system for a complex global fleet.

Speakers

Sambhav Jain

Software Engineer, Uber

Sambhav Jain currently works as a Software Engineer at Uber on the container runtime team. Primarily working on container resource metrics and distributed container registry systems at Uber.
Before Uber, Sambhav worked at Cockroach Labs in the Database Performance team and at Confluent in the Kafka Connect team... Read More →

Digvijay Singh Shekhawat

Software Engineer, Uber

I've always loved solving problems. As a kid, that passion started with mathematics, which led me to competitive programming and eventually computer science.

At Uber, I was one of the founding engineers on the AI Solutions team, helping build Uber's new gig platform from the gr... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

15:40 CEST

Cloud Native Open RAN Across 1,000 Km: A GitOps Deployment With Duranta and Sylva - Sagar Arora, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance & Guillaume Grao, Orange Innovation

Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

The telco industry has been on a cloudification journey for over a decade. In the context of Radio Access Networks (RAN), this deep transformation is primarily driven by Open RAN initiatives. This talk illustrates how RAN is gradually embrassing cloud native benefits. Key synergies between Sylva and Duranta open-source projects are driving this transformation:
- Sylva provides a telco-grade cloud stack, enabling scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.
- The Duranta project focuses on developing RAN network functions using cloud-native design patterns to promote innovation and interoperability.

A live demo will highlight the role of Open RAN interfaces in Duranta. It will showcase a FluxCD-based GitOps deployment of Duranta’s Open RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU), Centralized Unit Control Plane (O-CU-CP), and Centralized Unit User Plane (O-CU-UP) network functions on a Telco Cloud. The deployment will follow the Sylva GitOps approach. Sylva will orchestrate multiple Telco Clouds to showcase central, regional, and far-edge deployment scenarios across two labs located approximately 1,000 km apart.

Speakers

Sagar Arora

Solutions Architect, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance

Sagar Arora holds a Ph.D. in mobile communications from Sorbonne University, France. His thesis title was “Cloud-native Network Slice Orchestration in 5G and Beyond”. At OpenAirInterface, he takes care of the on-premises data center, 5G radio equipment, and CD pipelines. He engages... Read More →

Guillaume Grao

O-RAN and 5G Solution integrator, Orange Innovation

Working for Orange Innovation in different position: from C++ developper to an O-RAN and 5G Solution integrator

Friday October 9, 2026 15:40 - 16:20 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

Audience Experience Level Any

16:30 CEST

Scatter-Gather in Sharded Worlds: Implementing Resilient Cluster Scans Without Starving Shards - Sakshi Nasha, Cohesity & Primanshu Choudhary, GetYourGuide

Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Have you ever run a global pattern search or database scan across a large cluster, only to watch your application latency skyrocket and healthy nodes suddenly drop offline?

When applications outgrow a single instance, global data scanning becomes a major distributed systems bottleneck. High-level frameworks try to mask this complexity with simple abstractions, forcing the client driver to execute a "scatter-gather" pattern: fanning out parallel cursor queries to thousands of logical shards and merging the reactive results on the fly. If designed naively, a single slow shard or an unindexed query can exhaust the client's connection pool, leak memory, and starve production read/write traffic.

In this practical, code-focused session, we will open up the engine hood of high-performance drivers using live examples from the Valkey-Glide ecosystem. We will show you how to safely bridge high-level data abstractions down to sharded sockets without risking cascading timeouts.
Come Join us, to build Resilient Cluster Scans Without Starving Shards!

Speakers

Sakshi Nasha

Software Engineer, OpenSource Contributor, Cohesity

Sakshi Nasha is a Software Engineer with a passion for building software and driving diversity in tech. An open-source enthusiast and OpenSearch Ambassador, she actively contributes to FOSS communities and speaks internationally on topics including GO, APIs, Security, PostgreSQL and... Read More →

Primanshu Choudhary

Software Engineer 2, GetYourGuide

Primanshu is a Software Engineer at GetYourGuide, working in the Reviews team, he focuses on improving the performance and scalability of reviews system serving 400M+ requests per day with low latencies. He is a database enthusiast who enjoys solving real world problems, applies pragmatic... Read More →

Friday October 9, 2026 16:30 - 17:10 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

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