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Hot topics from KubeCon North America 2023

As another year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (CNC) draws to a close, the latest installment in Chicago might be one of our favorite ones so far! With talks having an ever greater focus on the impact of sustainability and inclusion within the community, we loved getting involved in the conversation about how we can make the cloud a better solution for all.

Introducing Workflows: Enhancing Automation to Incident Response

At Squadcast, we advocate for the principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), which emphasize the critical importance of automating routine tasks to boost efficiency in Incident Management. We're aiding organizations in implementing these principles with one of our newest features: 'Workflows'. Workflows has been designed to automate manual facets of your Incident lifecycle, all while ensuring human-in-the-loop execution for critical decisions.

What do we Expect from the Future of Wasm by Fermyon at KubeCon NA 23 - Civo TV

Join us in this enlightening discussion with tech leaders Saiyam Pathak, Field CTO at Civo, and Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon. In this video, they explore ground-breaking topics such as Fermyon's Spin 2 the future of WebAssembly (Wasm) and how these technologies are shaping the tech landscape.

Career Ownership: The Open Source Way by Nikita Koselev - Navigate Europe 23

Join Nikita Koselev as he explores the transformative power of open source in shaping careers and creating value in the development world. Dive into the nuances of learning, sharing, and actively participating in open source projects. Discover the impact of visibility, especially for underrepresented groups, and learn how to balance giving back with receiving benefits. Nikita introduces various open source communities and resources, offering valuable tips for job searching and personal growth.

Overcoming Inconsistent Environments with Cycle

Maintaining a consistent environment from development to production is one of those challenges that's always easier said than done. It used to be that a small hiccup—like a version mismatch or a misconfigured setting—could have you scrambling to figure out why everything worked perfectly on your local machine but started falling apart elsewhere.

International data protection with EU-entities of US-headquartered IaaS providers

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a legal mandate across the EU, requires enhanced protection for EU personal data transferred to countries with inadequate levels of data protection safeguards—including the US. The EU-US Privacy Shield, which was in place until 2020, facilitated these protections but was invalidated by the Schrems II ruling as a result of US surveillance concerns.

Treat reliability risks like security vulnerabilities by scanning and testing for them

Finding, prioritizing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities is an essential part of running software. We’ve all recognized that vulnerabilities exist and that new ones are introduced on a regular basis, so we make sure that we check for and remediate them on a regular basis. Even if the code passed all the security checks before being deployed, you still perform regular security tests to make sure everything’s secure.

Try PR zero

Pull requests are 99% waiting, and therefore waste, so in this video, you learn how to use Sleuth automations to minimize waiting and get back to doing real work. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.

Forget Inbox Zero, try PR Zero!

Pull requests are 99% waiting, and therefore waste, so in this video, you learn how to use Sleuth automations to minimize waiting and get back to doing real work. Give Sleuth a try and see how we give teams actionable insights on how to improve with no-code automations to instantly ship improvements, and metrics to measure their impact — all in a way that both managers and developers love.