GKE and Cloud Run @ Next 23
Google Cloud Next 2023 is around the corner. The event is back in-person in San Francisco after a 3-year break.
Attendees will have a packed week with over 500 pieces of content to choose from. However, if you only care about GKE and Cloud Run related sessions, you came to the right place.
I went scouching around the agenda and curated the top GKE and Cloud Run sessions you don’t want to miss.
You can register for the event online (or in person if you wish) and livestream the sessions for the low low price of zero dollars.
Don’t forget to bookmark this article and come back to check it in a few weeks. Once the recordings of the sessions below are on Youtube I will list them here.
Keynotes
DEVKEY — Developer Keynote: What’s Next for Your App?
This keynote will not be specific to GKE or Cloud Run but Richard and Forrest are great speakers and will share some insights about what the future looks like for app developers.
Breakout sessions
SU103 — Dynamic workloads at the right price: Cloud Run & GKE make it happen
Starting a new project and feeling overwhelmed with all the configurations you have to pick to make sure your infrastructure scales on-demand? Or simply struggling to figure out your compute requirements? In this session, my awesome colleagues Luke and Kaslin alongside Chalk will share some tips and trips on how to set up your application to scale while keeping costs under control.
ARC207 — The future of modern enterprise applications with Google Kubernetes Engine
If you are using GKE you already know that you are using one of the best managed versions of Kubernetes out there. In this session, the team will share great features that have already been released or are about to be released that will make GKE even better. We are talking about managed backups, persistent storage, and more.
DEV301 — Performance optimizations for Java applications
If you are a Java developer and you are interested in learning how to optimize Java apps for Google Cloud, you don’t want to miss this one. Aaron will share some common performance pitfalls and walk you through tools and practices to address them.
DEV211 — Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for faster application development
In this session, our team will be joined by Etsy who will share how they are enabling their developers to focus on delivering apps and features instead of the platform on which those apps run. Often one of the questions we get is what to choose between GKE and Cloud Run. Well maybe you should have to and Etsy will share how they manage all of this.
DEV304 — Running large-scale machine learning (ML) on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes and by extension, GKE can run more than just web apps, backends, and APIs. It can be used for stateful apps and also for data processing thanks to the Jobs API and the neat Integration with some Google Cloud data products. In this session, the team will share how GKE can help customers run and scale LLM (Large Language Models) and AI workloads.
DEV302 — Extend your Cloud Run containers’ capabilities using sidecars
If you have used containers and Kubernetes you have heard of or used sidecars before. They are these little auxiliary containers you run alongside your app to help implement some logic you don’t want to write code for. Whether that is shipping logs and metrics somewhere, doing some magical traffic management, or simply fetching a secret from a remote store. So far sidecars have been a Kubernetes concept, but they are now supported in Cloud Run. In this session, our team with a representative from Nasdaq will tell you how they are leveraging sidecars in Cloud Run to solve their business needs.
OPS201 — The latest from Google Kubernetes Engine
Join this session to hear from our team what’s going on with GKE. What features have been added to enable teams to work efficiently. Also, Equifax will be present on stage to share its journey with GKE.
DEV212 — Operationalizing large-scale machine learning (ML) on Cloud TPUs with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Another session about LLMs and TPUs (Tensorflow Processing Units) on GKE. This time Lightricks and Weights & Biases will share the stage to talk about their experience.
IH105 — Cloud Hero: Kubernetes
Join this gamified learning experience to become a Kubernetes Hero. You will start with an introduction to Google Cloud followed by a hands-on experience opportunity to build a containerized “Hello World!” app with VPC, VMs… Best of all, the top 3 players will receive a prize.
CT126 — Running Postgres in Kubernetes
Did you know that you can run databases on Kubernetes? Shocking, right? But you can and in this session, EDB will tell you how you can run Postgres on Kubernetes.
OPS300 — How to optimize Kubernetes for reliability and cost-efficiency
Cost optimization is certainly one of the topics discussed in the cloud space these days. Our team at Google Cloud released a report about cost optimization in Kubernetes. The team will share some insights about the topic in this session. They will be joined by Priceline to share their experience on using Kubecost to optimize their Kubernetes costs.
CT120 — Cloud Migration Success: Scaling Priceline with a Robust GKE Platform
Are you at the beginning or in the middle of your cloud migration journey? You need to join this session where Priceline will share some insights about their 3 years effort to move production traffic to GKE and close 2 data centers.
IH211 — Horizontal Scaling: Cloud TPU Multislice with GKE
Join this session to learn how to use GKE and TPU multislice to run, scale, and monitor workloads.
SCT-115 — Bootstrap your GKE Observability in 10 minutes or less
In this session, the team will share tips and tricks on how to use and observe GKE in just 10 minutes.
AIML122 — Learn about GKE from a growing startup powered by ML
In this session, Moloco will talk about how they are using GKE and TensorFlow to run their Machine Learning Infrastructure.
ARC200 — Secure your data from ransomware and outages with Google Cloud backup
Google Cloud Backup Service is a managed backup solution that supports VMs, databases, and GKE. In this session, the Google team alongside Cyberhaven and ASL Airlines will explain the product and how it can be used to protect your data against ransomware attacks or oopsie daisy moments.
SU111 — Cloud Run, Firestore, and Firebase: Serverless at your service
Which Serverless to use is a question startups and developers are faced with when they start looking into Google Cloud. In this session Google and Orderly Health will share with the audience some tips and good practices.
