Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG Meeting - 2025-09-23

Deep Roots Meeting - September 2025

Plenary: gRPC: New Features and the Road Ahead - Richard Belleville, gRPC Maintainer

Troubleshooting with Gemini - Yuexin Li, Google

Building Production-Ready LLM Integrations With MCP Over gRPC - Mehrdad Afshari, Signeen Inc.

Evolving Critical Systems With gRPC: Bidirectional at Scale — What Works, What Hurts, What’s Next?

Introducing gRPC-Rust - Cathy Zhao, Google & Doug Fawley, gRPC Maintainer

Building a gRPC Proxyless World: How Reddit Scaled Resilience... Shadi Altarsha & Sotiris Nanopoulos

Using a Service Mesh With gRPC - Eric Anderson, gRPC Maintainer

Tossing Our Caps: gRPC Governance Changes and the Path To CNCF Graduation - Richard Belleville

gRPC API Management With a Kubernetes Native API Management Platform - Dushan Abeyruwan, WSO2

Kubernetes and GKE for Beginners - Richard Belleville, gRPC Maintainer

Handling Traffic Spikes Through Automated Prioritized Load Shedding - Benjamin Fedorka, Netflix

Managing Contextual Metadata Across a gRPC Ecosystem - Nicholas Hagen, Netflix

Should You Use gRPC in Your AI Tooling Stack? - Jennifer Amah, Ostrom

Bringing HTTP/3 To gRPC at Cloudflare Scale - Lucas Pardue, Cloudflare

Protobuf Editions - Mike Kruskal, Google

Tuning gRPC for High Performance: Deadlines, Batching, and KeepAlives - Rahul Raja, Linkedin

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer

Exposing gRPC Services as MCP Servers - Johannes Brüderl, Redpanda Data

Overview of gRPC - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh, gRPC Maintainer

An Introduction To Google Cloud Platform - Peisi Le & Michael Zhou, Google

Keynote: State of gRPC - Rajiv Ramanathan, Google

Using gRPC Swift for Container Agents in Apple Containerization - Agam Dua, Apple

Load Balancing in gRPC - Easwar Swaminathan, Google

What's New With gRPC's Observability? - Yash Tibrewal & Abhishek Agrawal, Google

Experiences With Integration of Io_uring Into gRPC-C++ - Vignesh Babu & Minwoo Ahn, Google

Keynote: gRPC, A Foundation for AI - Muninder Sambi & Arunkumar Jayaraman, Google

Merge Forward Meeting - 2025-09-02

CNCF On-Demand: A Leap Forward in Kubernetes Networking & Observability with Calico Open Source

CNCF On-Demand: One API to Rule Them All - Building a Unified Platform with Kubernetes Aggregation

Bridging Big Data and Machine Learning Ecosystems: A Cloud Native Approac... Johnu George & Shiv Jha

Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG Meeting - 2025-08-26

CNCF Member Video Spotlight: Testimonial by Veritas Automata

Lightning Talk: K0s at the Edge: Minimal Kubernetes, Maximum Impact - Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantis

To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer

Project Lightning Talk: What's new in Harbor Project Updates and New Features - Prasanth Baskar

Rewriting the Rules: Why Kubernetes Is Moving To NFTables - Daman Arora & Yash Kumar Singh, Broadcom

Beyond Productivity: Scaling Cloud Dev Environments for Faster Feedback & Sustaina... Siddhant Khare

Project Lightning Talk: Dockerfiles vs Buildpacks: What's The Cloud Native Way? - Ram Iyengar

Project Lightning Talks: Closing - Jeffrey Sica, CNCF

Project Lightning Talks: Opening - Jeffrey Sica, CNCF

Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startu... Tamil Vanan Karuppannan

Keep Calm and Carry on Cluster Updates - Thanks To Kyverno Chainsaw - Vijay Dharap, Kubermatic

Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments wi... Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy

IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform's Excell... Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar

Unlocking the Power of Kuma Service Mesh: Enhancing Reliability and D... Deepak Verma & Arpit Mishra

Lightning Talk: OpenKruise: Advancing Kubernetes Workload Auto... Husni Alhamdani & Herbert Sianturi

Lightning Talk: Confidential VMs in Kubevirt: Securing VMs With Kube... Basavaraju G & Rishika Kedia

Building a Cloud Native IaC Platform for an Enterprise by Lev... Florian Hopfensperger & Yury Tsarev

Project Lightning Talk: How to get your custom access tokens from Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz

Lessons from Running a CNCF Community: Mistakes, Wins, and Growth - Kemila De Silva & Chamod Perera

A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor

Project Lightning Talk: Kyverno: Kubernetes Policy as Code Unleashed! - Mohd Kamaal, Contributor

Lightning Talk: Enhancing Runtime Protection Leveraging Compliance Frameworks - Ramakant Sharma

Beyond the Start Button: The Hidden Life of Pod Termination in Kubernetes - Rishabh Jain

Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud

Back To the Basics - Service Mesh Fundamentals - Kannan Jayaprakasam & Pawan Bhardwaj, Google

Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise - Prithvi Raj