 Wonderful. Well, containers spinning up faster than the blink of an eye, I'll see it when I believe it. I'm going to try that one at home. Our community within CNCF is built up on three main pillars. Our governing board, which manages direction and finances and some overall oversight things like that. Our technical oversight committee manages projects that are incoming, shifting levels and different graduate statuses. Then for a long time, we've said end users are the third pillar, which they are, but for the longest time, we didn't have a body to build that up and to serve as folks that worked within that space. Now we do. At the end of last year, we spun up our end-user tab, and I'd like to invite end-user tab chair, Alulita Sharma to the stage. Let's take a seat. Keynotes are hard. Might as well take a break. I know. Hi, everyone. Good morning. How are you? I'm Alulita. I'm super happy to be here on behalf of all our end-users in the CNCF. I'm from Apple and I lead observability at Apple for AIML, but have been involved in the CNCF for quite a few years, and I'm super excited that for the first time in many years, we now have a formal body, the end-user tab, which is the technical advisory board, to be able to represent the voice of the end-user formally. This is really, again, to also continue to promote and conversations across with the end-user community, as well as reach out and provide feedback back to the projects to the TOC, as well as to the governing board of the CNCF to complete the virtuous cycle that all of us end-users represent and ratifying the technologies that are built in the open-source projects within the CNCF. Like wonderful, wonderful. Well, you beat me to it. I was going to ask you. Your first question was going to be why? Perfect. Perfect. You nailed it. The next question that I had for you, so that's kind of the why behind the end-user tab. What about the how? How do you and the end-user tab think about achieving some of those goals, receiving that end-user feedback, and then making ripples within the cloud-native ecosystem for end-users? Again, I think we have just started this journey formally, but one of the primary and initial initiatives that we kind of want to dive into is to talk, and have conversations with the various end-users across the ecosystem, as well as be able to be the body for looking at best practices, recommendations for different project stacks, reference architectures, and also be able to provide and highlight case studies of adoption of various technologies in the CNCF back to the larger ecosystem, including the projects. Awesome. I'm excited to work with you on that one. I know. I know. I am too. One more question I had about the end-user tab is where can people reach out to you? Actually, Taylor is the first person who can reach out to you. I know. I wouldn't let you go that quickly, but you can reach out to me or any of the members on the end-user tab. As well as, again, on the GitHub, we have within the CNCF org, we have now a repo for the tab, and we will be having any issues you have, any feedback, any areas and requirements that you're looking to fulfill or any roadmap guidance. Again, please, the field is green. Ask away, file issues, and we are happy to work with you and go back and forth with the GB as well as DSC and the projects and hopefully provide that valuable link in facilitating those conversations. Again, I'm excited to work with you on that one. Before I forget, actually, the CNCF Slack, we also have a tab Slack channel, which you can actually just join and, again, bring your hardest questions to the table. It never ceases to make me laugh that our channel is hashtag tab, so... I know. So check it out, ask questions, reach out to us. So I didn't put this one in the slides, but I wanted to ask you one more question. Do you want to announce some of the top end-user award winners with me? Sure, absolutely. Okay, good, I was worried about that one. Totally, looking forward to that one. Awesome, awesome. So our top end-user award for KubeCon, so we do this every KubeCon, and we really want to recognize exceptional end-users within the ecosystem. Now, the way that these awards work is that people nominate themselves or other end-user organizations, and then after all of those folks have been nominated, the end-user community and their voting context vote for the winners. So this year we had three nominations, and I wanted to roll them back before I roll up the winner. So our first runner-up is Expedia, coming in third place. They've made significant strides in adopting CNCF projects like Kubernetes, for Matthias and Envoy to enhance their cloud-native capabilities. Their contributions to the community through event participation and commitment, sustainable computing practices, are exemplary. Next up is Shopify, and I'll give you some time to clap for everybody at the end. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is Shopify. They have demonstrated incredible scale and reliability powered by an extensive suite of CNCF technologies. Handling nearly 30 petabytes of data and 58 million requests per minute during peak periods is a testament to the mature usage of projects like Kubernetes, open telemetry, and more. Shopify's numerous code contributions and leadership roles within the CNCF make them top contributors. Check out Shopify at second place. CERN's cloud-native journey is truly remarkable. They accelerate much more than particles. They accelerate cloud-native into the future as well. By leveraging CNCF projects, they orchestrate an extensive infrastructure responsible for storing and processing over 330 petabytes of data. I think that's almost what I have in my iPhoto library at home. CERN's adoption of technologies like Kubernetes for metheus-influent D have enabled the management of 600 plus clusters and thousands of nodes. With that, I'd like to invite someone from CERN to come up to the stage to accept this award. Congratulations to CERN. All right. All right. Thank you very much. This is really, like, we're really honored about this. It's really a pleasure to be here. We have some of our CERN team there as well, so they can wave. Yeah. Yeah, so it's been really a journey for us, for many of you as well. It's incredible to see so many people. We started looking at cloud-native Kubernetes tools a few years ago, many years ago by now. We have a story that I can summarize quickly, which is we always had big requirements in terms of computing and data processing. We were used to building our own tools in-house and really transitioning and looking out to the CNCF, cloud-native and being able to build on the projects that are maintained by thousands and thousands of people has been a huge shift in our culture internally by one that has brought a lot of good results. I think this has been really the main lesson we took from all of this. I always mention this in my talks and I think I will repeat it here is that for us, seeing so many people involved, everyone contributing to this project, every contribution you do to documentation, maintainers, user feedback, I'm sure you bring a lot to your own organizations, but what I can guarantee is that you're actually making a huge change in the way we do scientific computing. We spend a lot less time maintaining infrastructure these days and this allows us to focus a lot more on the science. So it's a huge contribution from everyone, so thank you so much. I wanna thank all of you and our end-user community for bringing all of these innovations. Like Ila Lita said, feel free to hit us up. Hit me via email, Slack, wherever you can find us if you have any questions on how to get started. This Friday, not today, but Friday, the end-user tab town hall will be taking place. You'll see some familiar faces there. I'll be there, bring your questions. Let's have a conversation. Thanks everybody. See you next week. Thanks. Thank you so much, Taylor, Alulita and congratulations, CERN. Our next sponsored keynote speakers are Michael Handlich and Fabian Dosh. Michael is a vice president and technology fellow at Goldman Sachs, and Fabian is an engineering manager at Red Hat. And for their keynote today, we invite you to imagine a symphony where every note is perfectly in sync. At least this is the vision that our cloud native end-user Goldman Sachs has for their own applications. Michael and Fabian will discuss how orchestrating a harmonious blend of simplicity and scalability can set the stage for a seamless transition to cloud native development. Please welcome to the stage Michael and Fabian.