Organising conferences - How hard it can be?

featuring KCD Mumbai and Civo Navigate

May 15, 2023

I always try to give back to the community in terms of free professional content, free mentorships, guidance, organising community events and others. It takes up lot of my not so free time in doing this. I will try to put my experience in for organising a conference. In past I have organised various conferences and this year I am even doubling down my efforts - KCD Mumbai, DevOpsDays Bengaluru, Civo Navigate and one more yet to be announced.

When you organise such conferences on your own apart from your daily work, its challenging as you have to:

Create sponsorship prospectus
Create Website and Graphics
Handle social media
Platform, CFP, Ticketing
Speakers, Venue
Reaching out to sponsors
List of elements for the venue
Pushing the event
A lot of async communication

These are just the major big ones and will be having so many sub tasks in each one of them , countless meetings, emails, queries that you will be getting is just too much. You drain too much of your energy but once the event happens and become successful its so much peaceful :)

This edition I would like to give kudos to everyone who organise the events as it involves a massive effort. Also, if your CFP gets rejected(mine still gets rejected at times) please do not curse the organizers and support them as they put in a lot of effort in selecting and do all other tasks.

Anyways, Since Civo Navigate and KCD Mumbai are two events that I am organising and their tickets are already on sale, so make sure to grab the tickets before they sellout. Also CFP for Navigate is open to be sure to submit it.

So Past 15 days have been interesting as I have been able to continue my Chai pe Charcha(Twitch stream in Hindi) for everyday Mon-Fri 5pm IST and proud of that with my existing engagements and workload.

I have been creating some content on my YouTube - YAY!!! Finally back to accelerating <3

Excited for what I am working on next myself and with my friends, so stay tuned and subscribe to the channel :)

Let’s move to the wonderful content created by the community.

Also, would love to announce Cisco as the newest org member :)

Awesome Videos

Awesome Reads

Kubernetes 1.27: updates on speeding up Pod startup - this blog discusses several new features and changes that can help to speed up the startup of pods in Kubernetes v1.27. These features include parallel image pulls, limits on the number of parallel image pulls, and increased default API query-per-second limits for kubelet. By using these features, cluster administrators can significantly improve the startup performance of pods.
Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha) -Users ca resize CPU/memory resources allocated to pods without restarting the containers. This can be useful in a variety of situations, such as when a pod is running on a node but with either too much or too little resources. To use this feature, the InPlacePodVerticalScaling feature gate must be enabled. Once enabled, users can resize the resources of a pod by patching the running pod spec.
Embracing the Future: Generative AI and Web Assembly (Wasm) Innovations at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU 2023 - The article discusses the potential of Generative AI and WebAssembly (Wasm) to revolutionize the way we interact with computers. Generative AI is a type of AI that can create new content, such as images, text, and music. Wasm is a binary instruction format that can be executed by a web browser. The article argues that these technologies have the potential to make web applications more efficient, secure, and personalized.
Getting Started with the Ruby Chainguard Image - Chainguard Images for Ruby is a secure way to run Ruby applications in containers. They are built with verified software supply chains and include a variety of security features, such as SBOMs and attestations. In this getting started guide you will how to get started.
Our WebAssembly Experiment: Extending NGINX Agent - NGINX is experimenting with Wasm to extend the functionality of NGINX Agent. They have created a Wasm module that can be used to collect metrics, interact with the NGINX configuration, and send alerts. Wasm is a portable binary format that can be used to create efficient and secure modules. Wasm has the potential to make NGINX Agent a more powerful and versatile tool.
On everything but Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower - talk about the return of monolith, tools for the job, open source, and if ChatGPT will lead to better code reviews with a mention of Kubernetes!
Docker Init: Initialize Dockerfiles and Compose files with a single CLI command - Docker init is a new command that allows you to quickly initialize Dockerfiles and Compose files with a single CLI command. This can be helpful for developers who are new to Docker or who want to quickly create a Dockerfile or Compose file for a new project.
Advanced Secrets Management on Kubernetes with Pulumi: Doppler Secrets Operator - In this blog Engin talked about using Doppler secrets operator to manage Kubernetes secrets with Pulumi touch.

Learning resources/repositories

Container native security talks by Rory McCune
Acorn workshop by Luc Juggery
Solara - A Pure Python, React-style Framework for Scaling Your Jupyter and Web Apps
privateGPT - Interact privately with your documents using the power of GPT, 100% privately, no data leaks
orbstack - docker desktop replacement which is very interesting.