The Case for Lightning Talks

Lightning • Talk
(Noun.)
An information-packed, 15-minute open source demonstration led by experts

You may be wondering, as I’ve wondered: Is the origin of the name from its quick pace or because presenters have captured brilliant lightning in a bottle and want to share it?

Regardless of its origin, let me make a quick case for why lightning talks are one of the best uses at your time at KubeCon:

• 15 minutes of pure open source technology. No polite, yet time-intensive opening slides or diversions
• Even if you won’t be using whatever is demonstrated during a lightning talk, knowing that this technology exists will be useful down the road
• Because of its intimate nature (time-boxed, specialized interests), you’ll network with similarly curious open source advocates

Oracle’s open source lightning talks at KubeCon 2023 at booth B3 are something to write home about (pickup a postcard while you’re in Chicago!), so here’s what to expect:

Modern AppDev

Tuesday, 10:30 — Spring Boot Backend Platform with Kubernetes: Learn about Oracle’s new “backend as a service” platform that makes it super easy to develop, deploy and managed Spring Boot applications in your cloud of choice, or even on-premises, with great features like built-in observability, native image for faster startup and scaling, elastic scaling Kubernetes and Oracle Autonomous Database so your backend scales when you need it to. (Mark Nelson)

Tuesday, 11:00 — OKE and AI gives you Superpowers on the Oracle Cloud: Discover the ease in which AI features can be wielded for application management across OCI, on managed OKE and self managed multiclusters, and cloud agnostic environments for much easier zero trust security posture. (Julian Ortiz)

Tuesday, 02:00 — Optimizing Java in Containers with GraalVM Native Image: In this session we’ll demonstrate how to compile and containerize apps and then explore how to optimize for different base container images to minimize size and improve security. (Shaun Smith)

Wednesday, 10:30 — MERN Stack with Oracle Database: In this talk you’ll learn about Oracle’s new “MERN” stack (that’s mongo, express, react, node). Bet you didn’t know we had one, right? Learn how easy it is to develop mobile apps and games with the full power of the Oracle Database and an elasticly scaling backend as a service platform which also supports Flutter, Unity and the whole Android and iOS ecocystems. (Mark Nelson)

Wednesday, 11:00 — Access the same data with Relational, JSON, and Graph using Rust and WASM: In this talk we’ll show how to access the same data in the same database using Relational, JSON, and Graph for the most dynamic, optimized, and appropriate models and techniques for given use cases and we’ll also do this using Rust and WASM. (Paul Parkinson)

Wednesday, 02:00 — Kubernetes Cluster Management Made Easy with OKE: This talk will cover the OKE features and functionality that ensure reliable operations for your mission-critical applications at scale, while lowering the skills barrier and reducing the management burden on IT and operations teams. (Mickey Boxell)

Thursday, 11:00 — Oracle and Veeam: Empowered Cloud-Native Solutions: Learn how Oracle and Kasten by Veeam are working together to empower organizations with an end-to-end robust solution to host its cloud-native workloads. The collaboration between the two organizations ensures that OKE, OCI storage, and Kasten K10 integrate harmoniously. (Matt Slotten, Sherwood Zern)

You can also see this talk at the Veeam booth!

DevOps

Tuesday, 2:30 — Elevate your App Delivery: Seamless CI/CD with GitLab on OCI: Discover how you can supercharge your DevOps workflow by deploying from GitLab to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In this talk, we’ll walk you through the reference architecture for setting up GitLab with OCI and unlocking the full potential of CI/CD pipelines in the cloud (Prabhakar Palanivel and Cesar Saavedra).

You can also see this talk at GitLab’s booth (M1), 1:00 PM

DataOps

Wednesday, 11:45 — DevOps meets DataOps (into the database and down to the kernel using OpenTelemetry and eBPF): See a one-of-a-kind observability solution for metrics, logs, and tracing across all tiers and aspects of an application from the application and Kubernetes environment all the way INTO the database, thus allowing DevOps to meet DataOps and provide the full picture required by the end user without the need to jump around to multiple consoles and systems correlating and piecing together the puzzle. (Paul Parkinson)

Thursday, 10:30 — Kubernetes for DataOps: Learn about how Oracle is making it easier to provision and manage Oracle Databases running in Kubernetes (or outside) and how to monitor Oracle database and your own applications using industry standard tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Learn how to use CI/CD to manage your database schema and reference data, with version control, in just the same way you apply CI/CD to source code. (Mark Nelson)

Collaborative Development

Tuesday, 11:45 — Code Innovate: Oracle’s Virtual Code Innovate is a robust online event tailor-made specifically for your organization. It’s a great opportunity to learn and engage in an interactive virtual setting that is designed to jump start your use of Oracle’s Cloud offerings to solve your organization’s most pressing use cases. (Chinmay Thakar)

If you’re an open source fan, there’s something here for everyone.

We’ll see you an booth B3!