 So, hello everyone, we should continue. I apologize, my voice is working like 80% today. So, I apologize in advance. Anyways, so my name is Aleksandr Matyshentsev, and I'm really happy to see you all here and excited to welcome you to ArgoCon. So, I feel like the fact that so many people chose to join ArgoConference over other co-located events here at Amsterdam, it's amazing and it speaks a lot about Argo popularity. So, Argo made awesome progress over the last few years and it became an extremely important tool that helped us engineers to build and deploy applications on top of Kubernetes. So, it doesn't really matter what your goal is, whether you want to just deploy a simple web service or you want to orchestrate a complex canary deployment or maybe you want to build an ETL pipeline. Argo has a component that can help you. And I think it's fair to say that Argo became a key ingredient in a cloud-native ecosystem and that's what I'm going to talk about today. So, I gave you my name only, but let me do a proper introduction. So, as I said, my name is Aleksandr Matyshentsev. This is my typical joke. Don't try to repeat my last name. So, I prefer to go just by Aleks. And I'm a long-time maintainer of Argo. I've been working on this project for almost seven years. I cannot believe it. And in fact, I'm a part of the team that created the project and team is pretty much here. You can see it on the screen. So, you already might honk and there is Jessie and me and we've been working together, kind of helping enterprises to adopt GitOps and maximize benefits of using Kubernetes for many years. And that led to the creation of a project. And eventually, it led to creation of our company, Acuity. And currently, we pretty much keep doing the same thing. So, we are helping enterprises, providing them services to adopt GitOps and implement it using Argo. Plus, we are scaling this process by providing a SaaS solution, SaaS product called Acuity Platform that currently includes managed Argo CD. And a ton of innovation on top. I won't go too deep into there. It provides a lot of additional features on top. And I can share with you that it was really kind of scary and hard decision for us to leave stable, full-time jobs and commit to start a startup. And it happened only thanks to Argo. And what motivated us and gave us courage to go for it is the progress and achievements that Argo made in the last few years. So, Hong already gave you a lot of numbers. I will highlight only a few metrics that I care the most about. So, Argo obviously graduated in 2022, which puts it into an awesome company of projects like Kubernetes itself, Envoy, Prometheus, and so on. That's great. Next, it has awesome velocity that indicates project is not just big and it keep growing. But what inspired me personally the most is the number of contributors. So, as a maintainer, I could kind of, I had a chance to observe how this number is growing. So, a few years ago, we had a team of two. And today we have multiple special interest groups. We have marketing team, security team. We have weekly contributors meeting and the hundreds of people are helping us to move project forward. And I personally and whole company, Acuity Thinks, it's extremely important for the project health. And we want to express our gratitude. And Acuity Peer Program for Argo is one of the ways how we say thank you to our contributors. So, idea here is very simple. We pick outstanding contributors and we reward them. So, one of the rewards is we're making sure each and everyone knows about their contributions so they can get credit for the work. So, we tweet about it, we blog about it. And of course, we provide awesome Argos, like PAK, which everyone loves. And we provide GitHub sponsorship. And so far, we have only seven people who received the award, which I think is an embarrassingly small number. And we have way more people who should get it. That's why it's a call to action to everyone here. If you have a person in mind who you think should receive the award, please navigate to acuity.io. Just search for Peer Program page and submit your nomination. And we'll be happy to review it and reward the contributor. So, we should keep moving. We announced Peer Program during last ArgoCon. And it feels like a great tradition to announce something new every ArgoCon. And today, I'm happy to announce a new resource available. If you are curious about acuity, if you want to learn about Argo from ArgoCreators, acuity.acuity.io is the place. So, as you can guess from the name, this is the resource that hosts a set of courses. So, today we are starting with the first course, Introduction to GitOps and Argo CD. It's available for free. Feel free to sign up and you will be able to start using it right after the QubeCon. And two more courses are under construction and will be added soon, which is Advanced GitOps and Introduction to Acuity platform. And I'm pretty sure it will be useful to everyone. If you're curious about Argo, if you want to learn about it, please go ahead and use it. And I have just one more last thing that I want to announce, which I think is the best possible thing to announce a new open source project. So, I hope you enjoyed the name. It's called Cargo. And Cargo is about automation of change promotion across multiple environments. So, this page doesn't have too many details intentionally. So, the reason being is, Cargo is not yet ready for its prime time, but we've been using it internally to build and deploy Acuity platform. So, we like the result and we feel confident enough to invite early adopters. So, if you care about promotion of changes between multiple environments and you want to try to apply GitOps principles to that process, please talk to us. You can find us at QubeCon booth or just send us a message in the CNCF Slack channel and we'll be happy to introduce you to a project. That's it for me. It's been great honor to speak today. And please go ahead and enjoy ArgoCon at QubeCon. Thank you. Thank you.