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Taming Kubernetes: Streamlining Inner-loop Development for Distributed Systems
Tue, 23 April
Navigating the world of Microservices on Kubernetes? Feeling hamstrung by the complexities of local development when it comes to interconnected services? You're not alone. As the world rapidly adopts Kubernetes, developers grapple with the intricacies of simulating inter-service communications locally and the challenges of working with distributed systems.
This session unravels the tangled web of Kubernetes-native inner-loop development. Dive deep with Kevin to explore tools and strategies that empower developers to efficiently emulate local services or seamlessly interact with external dependencies.
Whether you're wrestling with running interconnected services on your local machine or aiming for a seamless integration with external systems, this talk has you covered. Discover the prowess of Docker Compose, TestContainers, Quarkus Dev Services, Remote Development, Skupper, and Eclipse JKube.
Emerging from this session, you'll be armed with innovative techniques to enhance your development experience, fostering a smoother, faster, and more intuitive approach to building and testing distributed applications on Kubernetes.
Join us for a transformative journey that promises to change the way you perceive and work with Kubernetes-native development!
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About the speaker
Kevin Dubois
Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Kevin is a software engineer and international speaker talking mostly about Java and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat, on a mission to supercharge developer joy and productivity using Open Source as the guiding light. He previously worked as a Software and Platform Engineer at a variety of organizations across the world ranging from small startups to large US enterprises and even government agencies.
Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop); and as committee member of the Belgian Kubernetes Meetup group as well as the Belgian Java User Group.
Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently and is currently based in Belgium, having lived in Italy and the USA as well.
In his free time you can find him somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding or packrafting.
