Beyond the Hype: Open Source, Observability, and Finding Your AI Breakthrough

I think the best thing that I experienced again and again, but just a couple of weeks ago at KubeCon in Amsterdam, is when our global community comes together.

And so KubeCon Amsterdam, it happens several times a year, but in Amsterdam it was the European version.

And I...

The best moment I had, I was volunteering as a CNCF ambassador to support the ContribFest.

So the ContribFest is basically a special session format where different CNCF projects can say they want to do a contribution fest.

That means they get a room, they get a stage, they get tables and everything.

And then the idea is that people come in and help contribute to that project.

We did this years ago.

I think it was in Paris or somewhere.

I don't remember where.

Which one? For Captain, where we basically told people, hey, this is what Captain is and this is how you can extend it.

And then we tried to help them building their own extension to Captain or using it, setting it up.

Now, this time I went to the Argo CD ContribFest because Argo CD, it's a project that is used by many in our industry.

And I thought it would be really cool to see what people are contributing.

It turned out this room was completely, extremely full with a lot of people came and come in.

And instead of an active contribution to contribute code, people were contributing to stories, meaning the idea was that the maintainers, they said, hey, we want to hear from you on, A, how you're using Argo right now.

What are some of the things that you're doing or that you like, that you dislike? And it turned into basically an hour and a half session of people that use Argo and basically present on lessons learned and best practices.

And this was really cool.

And I think this is a great way where where a global community comes together and just shares and independent of who you are, which company you work for, whether you're presenting something internal to your competition, right? Because this also is sometimes a little bit hindering people to say, hey, I don't want to show how we use these things internally because maybe our competitor sits in there and they learn from it.

But what I like about this community is that it goes beyond the corporate boundaries, right? There's no...

There's nothing holding us back.

And I think this was really cool.

And then the other thing that happened...