Road to KubeCon NA 2024: Matteo Bianchi

In this episode of The Landscape, we caught up with Matteo Bianchi, a CNCF Ambassador, platform engineering expert, and freelance cloud-native consultant. Matteo shared his insights into key CNCF projects, platform engineering trends, and how he simplifies complex technologies like eBPF in his work.

What you will learn in this episode:

- Matteo’s Contributions to Kubernetes: Insights into his work on the Kubernetes release team and his plans to continue contributing to release engineering.

- Excitement Around Argo and Kubeflow: Why Matteo prefers Argo for application delivery over Flux, and how Kubeflow simplifies running AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes.

- OpenTelemetry’s Observability Power: How OpenTelemetry enables developers to collect meaningful data across distributed systems for better insights.

- Platform Engineering Trends: Matteo discusses why end-user stories, like those from Reddit and Salesforce, are essential to understanding platform engineering in practice.

- Explaining eBPF “To My Grandma”: A look at Matteo’s creative approach to making advanced technologies like eBPF more accessible.

This episode is sponsored by OVHcloud.