Presentations

George Mulak
Topic: Ubucon

George Mulak has set up a working lab with hands-on training both for the Orange County Rescue Mission and the disadvantaged population. In this inspirational talk, he will cover the importance of these types of community spaces, how to properly set one up, and how to ensure they are sustainable.

Sean Blagsvedt
Audience: Everyone

Borrowing from the best traditions of Mozilla -> View Source, JsFiddle, GitHub and open source, we propose an opensource AI workflow discover and orchestration platform. It would showcase the best of private and open-source AI recipes and allow anyone to contribute connectors to new APIs or new AI recipes for others tweak. We've begun this vision with Gooey.AI & with the support of folks like kwaai.ai hope to make AI truly open & useful for all.

John Engelke
Audience: Everyone
Topic: DevOpsDay LA

In this 10-minute lightning talk, you'll find out how to leverage an OSS GitHub application template from NASA JPL's SLIM project to create a DevSecOps Python 3 development project really fast. The project will exhibit fundamental concepts of Shift Left by implementing code tests, security scans and deployments very close to actual development. Fail fast is the mantra!

Larry Schrof
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Career Day

You will spend one third of your waking hours in your life at work. Career choices matter. Fullfillment in your work matters.

You've been in a hands-on role for a while now. You wonder what being a manager is like. Would you enjoy it? Would you be any good at it? What skills does it require? How does your day-to-day work life change? How do you need to change?

In this talk, Larry will give you a taste of life as a tech manager, as well as a solid framework and set of introspective exercises to see if management within the tech industry might be for you.

Christine Li

Although 3D printing has a promising future, it inevitably malfunctions from time to time, whether it is a design or hardware problem. Furthermore, with the rising number of hackers, there needs to be additional monitoring to alert users. This project's solution is to create an app using open source that can track 3D printing progress, as well as notify users when something has gone wrong.

Audience: Everyone
Topic: BoFs

AMA with some current SCaLE volunteers on how to get involved with the conference.

Annanay Agarwal
Audience: Developer
Topic: Observability

The talk will start with defining Incident Response Management and its principles. Next, we'll discuss how users can build an efficient incident response stack in a myriad of open source tooling. We'll split this into 3 sections: 1) What are good signals to collect from an application that will help diagnose production issues? 2) What query patterns should be allowed by a telemetry database and how can we use them efficiently? How can I use these query patterns defined by telemetry databases to build an incident response stack? We'll answer these questions through a deep dive on OpenTelemetry.

Mattias Gees
Audience: Beginner
Topic: Cloud Native

As organisations embrace the power of Kubernetes for their container orchestration needs, ensuring robust machine identity security measures becomes paramount. That's where the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) steps in as a game-changer. SPIFFE offers teams a standardised approach to establish and manage solid identities for workloads in Kubernetes, hybrid cloud infrastructures and data centres. This talk will describe real-world examples of how SPIFFE can be leveraged for modern machine identity. Using SPIFFE, teams can solve the secret zero problem.

Kate Sweetland, Darryl Hwang
Audience: Everyone

Radiomics, the high throughput calculation of texture features, is a growing field. Standardization needs to occur for these statistics to have significance. The International Biomarker Standardization Initiative (IBSI) codified a comprehensive set of image feature definitions, which have been translated into both MATLAB and Octave. Ultimately, the goal is widespread use, so the foundations for further quantitative studies can be laid.

Nicholas Morey, Justin Marquis, Christian Hernandez
Audience: Beginner

Kubernetes is a declarative-first platform where manifests written in YAML describe what resources should exist in a cluster. Many new users will use imperative processes, running `kubectl apply`, to define and change the state of their cluster. This approach is known as the “push” model, and while it works initially, it does not scale as more users adopt the platform. Actors outside of the cluster should not be able to make changes directly. GitOps practices provide a declarative approach to defining and managing the state of Kubernetes.