🇬🇧 KubeCon EU 2025, Rejekts, Maintainers Summit and Co-located events! 🤯
I am preparing myself for a crazy week at KubeCon EU next week. There are tons of things going on, and I am excited to meet everyone coming to London. It is interesting to have a KubeCon happening in the city where you live, so let's see how it goes.
My week is going to be hectic, but as usual, the most important factor for me is to meet people, make new connections, and learn about what is going on in the cloud native space.
Before we start all activities on Sunday with Cloud Native Rejekts, I am joining the "Is it Observable?" webinar with my friend Henrik Rexed today, Friday 28th, at 4pm. You can join us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pv2ktWr2cw
Cloud Native Rejeckts (30th/31st March 25)
Starting with Cloud Native Rejecktsexcellent on Sunday, I am looking forward to that pre-conference vibe with extremely good speakers and smaller rooms for deeper conversations.
Highlights on Sunday:
- Podman and Podman Desktop: State of the Union
- Building Air-Gapped Control Planes for a Global Pharma Leader Using Crossplane and ArgoCD
Highlights on Monday:
- Simplifying cross-cloud, cross-cluster connectivity with Dapr & Cilium
- Making GenAI CLI Agents Work for Your DevOps Day-to-Day Operations
Unfortunately, on Monday, I cannot attend the presentation from Alice Gibbons and Manuel Zapf, who will be showing Cillium and Dapr working together across clusters. If you have the chance to participate in the session, I totally recommend it.
Maintainers Summit (31st March 25)
On Monday, I am eager to see how the Maintainers Summit goes. While this event is not for everyone, I will take enough notes to share with a broader audience. I am really looking forward to the TAG restructuring workshop as this represents a significant re org of how advisory groups inside the CNCF will work. Specifically, I am keen to see how I can be part of the TAG Developer Experience, which is key to bringing developers closer to the cloud native space.
Co-located events (1st April 25)
On Tuesday, life gets busy at the co-located events.
Starting with a presentation at 9:45am with Julia Morgado Furst titled Streamline Your App Development With the Power of Cloud Native Tools - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid for the first ever Cloud Native university co-located event.
This will be followed by a presentation at 10:40am at the Platform Engineering Day co-located event with the legend Viktor Farcic. Titled The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering - Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
While these are two completely different presentations and co-located events, I am super hyped to collaborate with such a diverse group.
Next, I will be doing some book signings at the Synstasso booth at 12pm at their booth, you can find more details here.
Later at 3:30pm, there will be more book signings with my friends at Loft Labs, who are always happy to promote the book.
As you can see there will be more signings on Wednesday and Thursday.
KubeCon Keynotes and sessions (2nd, 3rd and 4th April 25)
There will be a lot of interesting sessions and keynotes happening during the week. I recommend looking at the schedule to see who is presenting and where before arriving at the event.
If you want to follow along and visit the Diagrid booth to say hi, here are all the sessions about the Dapr project: https://www.diagrid.io/events/diagrid-dapr-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2025
I strongly recommend you folks to attend
- Marc's session about durable executions with Dapr Workflows: Failure Is Not an Option: Durable Execution + Dapr = 🚀 - Marc Duiker, Diagrid
- And I am very hyped to see Yaron and Roberto from Nvidia to present about Dapr Agents: Dapr in 2025: Durable Execution for Agentic AI Systems and Becoming the Backbone of App Platforms
On Thursday, I will be doing a short presentation at the Learning Lounge, where I will be sharing some tips about how to progress your career from being a developer to a platform engineer:
Super important! Don't miss out your spot in the Diagrid + Upbound party! Sign up now!
Finally, on Friday, I am presenting with my friend Thomas Vitale about developer experience on a presentation titled: Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Closer To the CNCF - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid
This presentation aims to create and promote more specific channels to bring application developers closer to platform engineers so we can build better platforms.
As always, I will take a lot of notes during the event and share my slides, demos, and pictures at the end of the event.
Say hello! Don't be shy!
If you see me running around the conference, please stop me to say hi! Let's talk tech!
If you want a copy of my book, check out the book signing times!
See you all there!