KCD Texas 2024

The program

20 Speakers in 18 Sessions across 2 rooms: talks, 2 workshops and lightning talks, with open-space discussions in the afternoon.

Talks and workshops

These Sessions have no published recording.

• Phippy’s Field Guide to Wasm

  Karen ChuHead of Community at Fermyon Technologies

  Matt ButcherCEO

• Ephemeral Environments: Redefining Pre-Production

  Natalie LunbeckDevRel Engineer at Shipyard

• Closing The Gap: Extending Kubernetes from Cloud to Edge with WebAssembly

  Joonas BergiusSenior Engineer at Cosmonic

• Lessons Learned hosting 1800 customer instances in 8 K8s Clusters

  Bob WalkerField CTO at Octopus Deploy

• Korell8r - Signal Correlation for Kubernetes and Beyond

  Jamie PrinceProduct Manager at Red Hat

  Alan ConwayRed Hat

• Crossplane for Platform Engineers

  Steven BorrelliPrincipal Soutions Architect, Upbound

• The Past, Present and Future of Gateway API

  Shane UttStaff Software Engineer @ Kong, SIG Network Chair, Gateway API Maintainer

• 5g Core Testing with the CNF TestSuite

  W WatsonVulk Coop

• Kubernetes Kickstart Boosting Agility with CNCF and DevOps

  Angel RamirezCEO @ Cuemby | FHCN Co-Founder, Guest Speaker, CNCF Ambassador

• Demystifying Kubernetes Resource Management

  Rafael BritoStaff Engineer - StormForge

• Sidecar containers in Kubernetes: Past, Present, and Future

  William Morganco-founder and CEO of Buoyant

• Navig8.dev: a Helm Chart Values Wizard

  Mark LaviOpen Source Cloud Native Product Manager, Kasten by Veeam

  Satheesh MohandassSolutions Architect, Veeam Kasten

• Acing the Prometheus Exam: A Kubernetes Observability Journey

  Rajeshkumar SampathrajanAn observability enthusiast and engineering manager

• Mini-CTF Workshop

  Andrew MartinCEO, ControlPlane

• On-Prem is the New Black: Repatriating Data From The Cloud

  Cece ChefDeveloper Evangelist

• Building Container Images at Scale with Cloud Native Buildpacks

  Terence LeeHeroku

Hosts

• Emily GuptonAustin Women in Technology
• Sarah WilliamsAustin Women in Technology
• Laura Santamaria

Titles, names and affiliations as printed on the KCD Texas 2024 Schedule. A person who is also in the 2026 program or team is listed under the name this site uses for 2026. Sources: The KCD Texas 2024 Schedule and The 2024 Event Page.

• The 2024 playlist on YouTube

The sponsors of 2024

Sponsors shown by name had no logo file we could use. Texas Linux Fest’s own sponsor page lists more companies whose packages included KCD Texas. Source: The 2024 Event Page.

Rocky Linux logo by the Rocky Linux project, from rocky-linux/branding on GitHub, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Partners

Partners

Cuemby, KCD DC, KUBE Events, Sticker Mule, Austin Women in Technology

Media partners

Jupiter Broadcasting

The 2024 Organizers

• Chad Crowell
• Chris Aniszczyk
• Jim Angel
• Laura Santamaria
• Mars Toktonaliev
• Aly Ibrahim
• Cristher Castro
• Joaquin Rodriguez
• Moeez Mustafa
• Alvin Estrada
• Rafael Brito

The team as listed on the KCD Texas application to CNCF, opened in February 2023. The 2023 Edition was canceled, and the team may have changed by April 2024. Source: The application on GitHub.