Giant Conversations Episode #31
Episode Date: March 28, 2025
Topic: KubeCon London
Hosted by:
Special Guests:
Heather Clancy
Joe Salisbury
### See you at KubeCon - a marketer's take
We'll be at KubeCon in London Drop by booth N450
Date: 1-4 April 2025 in London
Giant Swarm Lineup - KubeCon:
- Marco Ebert: How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate
Giant Swarm Lineup - KubeCon (Platform Engineering Day):
- Dominik Kress: Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research
Giant Swarm Lineup at Rejekts:
- Marcus Noble: Pod Deep Dive: Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know
- Joe Salisbury: The Cluster API Migration Retrospective: Live migrating hundreds of clusters to Cluster API
Anyone on this Pocast a bit nervous?
### Stuff to Know
- Download the CityMapper app to get your way around London's Tube System
- The station near the venue is Custom House (there exit ExCel), available from Heathrow Terminals by the Elizabeth line
- What parties are you attending?
### Fun and a little nerdy bit of things to do in London
Only a 5 minute walk from Holborn Tube Station: The Novelty Automation Museum - very reminiscent of our invention hero Simone Giertz
Oi, check this out >> https://www.timhunkin.com/a260_travel-by-tube.htm
Have y'all thought about going to an arcade? Do y'all say y'all? I don't care, here's a list of arcades.
- Horizon 22!
- Natural History Museum (South kensington in general - Science Museum, V&A, kensington creperie)
- spitalfields market (more food)
- sky garden (alternative to horizon22
- hms belfast (if you're into navy stuff)
- london transport museum (if you're into trains lol)
- tooting market / broadway market / the wheatshef shout out to the ends
- Hayward Gallery
Food Guide
The Dishoom paradox (Kricket) Blacklock (lol at Joe) Gaucho Borough Market Bermondsey Beer Mile 40 Maltby Street.
### Talks at Rejekts/KubeCon that peak our interest
(KC) Marco Ebert: How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate
(R) Marcus Noble: Pod Deep Dive: Everything You Didn't Know You Needed to Know
(R) Joe Salisbury: The Cluster API Migration Retrospective: Live migrating hundreds of clusters to Cluster API
(KC) Dominik Kress: Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research
(R) James Laverack, Luigi Zhou: High-Scale Networking for ML Workloads With Cilium
(R) Frederic Branczyk, Jimmy Zelinskie: From Milliseconds to Microseconds: Pushing Kubernetes Workloads to the Limit
(KC) Joe's Wildcard: Dennis Marttinen, Security and Cloud Computing (SECCLO) Master Student, Aalto University: Thousands of Virtual Kubelets: 1-to-1 Mapping a Supercomputer To Kubernetes With Supernetes