June 2020 Summaries

Optimizing the Kubernetes Developer Experience with Version 0 focuses on enabling a consistent developer experience for each microservice from day 0, which is critical for unlocking team autonomy and development velocity. The Version 0 strategy involves shipping an end-to-end development and deployment workflow as the first milestone before any features are coded. This approach helps in setting the tone that developer experience is important and can be adopted by both engineers and managers to improve the overall microservices developer experience.

The decision to build or buy an authentication solution, specifically for OAuth, depends on various factors including complexity, required product capabilities, time to market, team constraints, and concerns about staffed project longevity and security risks. Enterprises with simple OAuth requirements, sufficient engineering resources, and a strategic commitment to open source may choose to build their own solution, while those with unique or complex authentication needs, limited expertise, or high security risks are often better off purchasing from a vendor. Vendors like Edge Stack API Gateway offer expertise, scalability, performance, and managed security solutions that can provide a faster time-to-market and lower operational costs compared to building in-house.

Extending Knative for Fun and Profit` This tutorial aims to teach developers about the inner workings of Knative by covering its building blocks in detail, without prior knowledge of any specific component. The focus is on a new model for loose coupling in Kubernetes, which will be applied throughout Knative and demonstrated to manipulate various Kubernetes resources. Additionally, this tutorial will explore how to create new abstractions using Knative, specifically to receive Events, showcasing the flexibility of the platform.