The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will be presenting ten talks during the Open Source in Finance Forum in New York on September 30 and October 1. The presentations will drill down on the intersection of cloud native and finance, and will be ideal for enterprise audiences. 

Here’s a quick overview of what to expect from the CNCF track at the conference.

OpenTelemetry for Finance

Observability is the “holy grail” of modern, cloud-native software delivery, and OpenTelemetry is the CNCF project providing a standard way to handle telemetry data. This session will provide an overview of the basic principles of observability and  look at how OTel is being employed in financial organizations like Vanguard.

Enterprise Observability Platforms, OpenTelemetry, or Both?

It’s possible to use OpenTelemetry in conjunction with existing enterprise observability platforms and GenAI/ChatGPT. Attendees will get a firsthand look at how a major financial institution is instrumenting applications for OTel without the use of significant developer overhead.

Mastering the Cloud Native Wave

Cloud native technologies aren’t going anywhere so organizations need to understand the best ways to mitigate the associated risks and potential skill gaps. This session will offer practical techniques to improve security including threat modeling, security architectures, and incident response, as well as a reusable methodology for lowering the risks of cloud native adoption.

Building Observable Applications While Upholding Security Standards

Making financial transactions observable is critical, but too much observability carries with it the possibility of slower performance and even sensitive data exposure. Expect to hear a thoughtful discussion of how companies can instrument high throughput and performance applications without impact to their performance. 

Advanced Power Monitoring with Kepler

Financial institutions are feeling an increasing impact from energy consumption, but they lack application-level power monitoring. In this session, attendees will be introduced to a new CNCF project, Kepler, that captures power metrics across a wide range of platforms. A live demo of Kepler will show how enterprises can use the tool to better understand their energy footprints and improve their IT operations.

Deploy TraderX Across Clouds Using the New CNCF Project Radius

In this presentation, attendees will meet a new CNCF project, Radius, that was created to make it easier for developers and platform engineers to collaborate with an emphasis on security, cost and operations best practices. 

Lessons Learned Running Kubernetes Multi-Tenant Multi-Cluster at Scale in the Financial Sector

Attendees in regulated industries trying to run large on-prem multi-tenant, multi-cluster K8s will find this presentation particularly useful. Expect to hear about everything from chaos engineering to resource management and event driven architectures, all while integrating with a number of CNCF projects including Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Alert Manager, ArgoCD, Contour and more.

Building and Running an HPC Grid Using CN Services

High-performance computing platforms have unique challenges when running in the cloud, and HTC-Grid, an open source high-throughput compute grid system, was created to address the massive computational demands. Attendees will get an up close look at HTC-grid and its high-throughput scheduling, low round-trip latency, and seamless infrastructure organization.

Reconciliation, Risk, ML and Other Use Cases for Bitemporal Systems

Understand the complicated and sometimes painful to maintain bitemporal model during this session, and explore how open source software could help financial services organizations utilize these systems more efficiently.

Modern Web APIs and Too Much of a Good Thing

This session takes a deep look at jQuery and imagines what the world might look like without it. 

Don’t miss these ten cloud native-focused presentations during the Open Source in Finance Forum.

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