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• The speaker addresses a question from an audience member regarding the storage of multiple integrated applications in a busy environment
• The speaker explains that open telemetry and Pixie solutions can be used to capture and store data locally, and then filter and batch the data as needed
• The speaker emphasizes the importance of considering sample strategies, filtering, and batching when designing an architecture for managing storage in a busy environment

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• Take stock of inventory and work with security to change perception of secure software
• Bring in security officers early on and provide education and training
• Transitioning to agile methodology and tying it into deployment and build process takes culture change
• Be mindful of tackling tech debt during migration
• Learn from industry best practices and use relevant templates

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• The system was designed with the goal of making it easy for developers to get started and ensuring commonly needed changes would be simple to make
• The system includes a config CLI and API, a version schema, and a customization system
• The config CLI provides a familiar interactive workflow for developers to modify production configuration
• The config API simplifies the user experience by explicitly encoding the main application properties that developers need to control
• The version schema allows for formal versioning and evolution of the system over time
• The customization system allows for advanced users to leverage the full power of Kubernetes APIs when needed
• The system strikes a balance between exposing changes and ensuring meaningful review, while also accommodating the needs of a wide range of users

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• Flux Operator is a solution for managing batch workloads in Kubernetes that involves a ResourceManager and a headlessService with fully qualified domain names.
• Specialized logic can be used to generate something and can be run via an entry point or an isolated pod.
• The Portfolio Policy is a recent feature in Job Controller that allows for the handling of failed pods based on exit codes and pod conditions.
• The Portfolio Policy is a list of rules that specify actions for handling failed pods based on exit codes and pod conditions.
• The presentation also mentions ongoing work on new features such as elastic index job or job set.

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• Observability is about understanding applications by looking at metrics, logs, and traces
• OpenTelemetry is a neutral approach to ship telemetry data
• The OpenTelemetry project includes a specification, API, SDK, data model, tools for generating traces, and a collector
• The OpenTelemetry collector can be run on Kubernetes or locally
• The tutorial covers manual and automatic instrumentation
• The OpenTelemetry operator can be used to integrate with Prometheus and get logs from nodes

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• Cilium and its ClusterMesh feature can simplify connectivity across multiple clusters in a cloud-agnostic way
• Connectivity between services spread across clouds
• Load balancing requests across backends in multiple clusters
• Connectivity between Kubernetes and legacy workloads
• Mutually-authenticated, encrypted connections between services
• Multi-cluster network policies
• Challenges related to IP address management, scale, and observability of multi-cluster networks, and how Cilium can help

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• Backstage is a centralized developer portal that reduces the cognitive load of developers and provides paved paths for compliance requirements
• The portal enables experimentation and fast feedback loops for both customers and engineers
• Requirements for Backstage were collected through forms and asking developers what would be most valuable to them
• The showcase of Backstage's capabilities includes the ability to create a service in three minutes
• The team is also working on aligning internal asynchronous communication and adding metadata around Pi data to schemas
• The balance between enabling fast development and maintaining compliance is crucial for the success of Backstage

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• Kubernetes is overwhelmed by the amount of functionality added and needs to focus on improving the statuses and debuggability
• The lack of visibility into the deployment reason for failing to start is a major issue
• The Kubernetes community needs more contributors, including developers, PMs, and technical writers
• The community is open to mentoring and bringing on new maintainers, but needs a firm commitment from them
• Unifying the statuses of all the controllers is being worked on to improve the situation
• The cube cuddle events command and cube cuddle debug command are being developed to expose more information

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• Modern applications are complex and distributed, making it hard to manage them
• A good development workflow should be easy to spin up, have a quick feedback loop, be debuggable, and have good visibility into the application
• Tilt is a tool in the Kubernetes ecosystem that simplifies the development process by handling the pains that come with developing microservices
• Tilt can be used to spin up a development environment by running a single command
• Tilt provides built-in functions that can help with providing instructions on how the entire application needs to be built and deployed
• Using Tilt, developers can update their application in real-time, ensuring a quick feedback loop between making code changes and seeing the results