 So we were late because we thought we were in the giant ballroom like the really huge one where the keynotes are. That's not the case apparently these are not quite that popular of sessions. My name is Matt Calger. Max and I ran the selections for this for this session in series of sessions. I don't know if any of you know him. He kind of just wandered up and says he's a doctor or something. All right so Max, as Matt said, sometimes I go by Dr. Max, but what's more important is that we ran so the set of presentations you're gonna see in this session. So what we want to do for five to ten minutes is to kind of give you an idea of how we did this because I think what's fair is to make sure that not only you understand the process but of course you give us some feedback and I think a lot of you probably also submitted maybe some of you so understand maybe why yours wasn't selected or maybe why yours was selected. So briefly so I was introduced to Matt sometimes last year I guess by the foundation and asking hey would you want to do this thing and I mean part of why you know sometimes I use Dr. Max as a surname is because I was in research right so being in research I spent a fair amount of time running conferences especially like academic conferences. So I knew what I was getting involved in to kind of lead a track because I ran entire conferences. One thing I wasn't ready for is the number of submissions. So for this track even though the room is kind of sparse and hopefully people will be walking in we had close to 300 submissions. It was like 290 somewhere in there. Yeah and of course you know usually in an academic conference I would have an entire program committee which you put together that would be like close to 30 people to review. It wasn't the case here it was just the two of us pretty much. So what we did is to kind of look at the of course you don't submit the entire paper or an entire presentation you submit an abstract. So briefly what we did is we used Google spreadsheet and essentially reviewed every single submissions. Every single submission. So if you submitted something you must have gotten some score of our review but also some comment because one of us did comment on every single one. So you think of 300 of course a lot of late nights especially towards the end because you know we have day jobs as well. So that's kind of the process. I don't know if you want to add anything to this. To me I think that the the hardest part of the process or the most clear part of the process was that you know Dr. Max works for IBM I work for Dell and the most important thing that we can do is remember that this is a community event and so the first thing that both of us did without even discussing it was to remove the submitter column because that's the value is in the in what's being submitted and of course with enough time in this part of the the industry you can probably figure out what some of these where some of these people come from but the most important thing is that is is that we really focused on making sure that we were evaluating things based on what the abstract said and we really had no other information than the abstract. So as a hint for the future if you were submitted and you didn't get selected I'm very very sorry if you submitted a minimal abstract that was a that was a tough thing to deal with. Okay so really good abstracts mean better chances. One more thing I'll mention about this anonymity I guess process that we tried to do is that sometimes just because I've worked with pretty much all parts of Cloud Foundry I recognized a project and in this case you can ask Matt I basically stayed out of it and of course I in collaboration with another colleague from IBM had a submission too and I stayed out of it so you can rest assured that we were not voting for ourselves or for our company. So one more thing we want to do I guess yeah I think there's there's a whole ton of I think what do we have 12 or 16 sessions that ended up making it through that's right I think that they are all really great sessions there was the number of sessions that were sort of above the bubble we eventually ended up stack ranking things and picking what we could fit in that being said we all have our own interests and preferences and areas and so to me the two sessions that I think are fascinating that I will definitely not be missing the first one is a discussion of serverless kinds of architectures functions as service kind of architectures within Cloud Foundry to me that is probably the single most interesting thing that is missing from the platform to me today so I'm really looking forward to that presentation by Max and one of his colleagues yeah yeah and the other one is dynamic tracing that work being done having run a SaaS platform in the past a very large one dynamic tracing or tracing through an entire stack was effectively impossible for us so I'm looking forward to that one particularly as well cool so for me there's a couple sessions that I want to highlight that I think are super interesting so one is how many people here have looked or is looking into Kubernetes yeah so it's kind of a hot topic these days blast for me so one of the cool thing that's happening this conference as you might have heard yesterday is that Google is helping out or joined as part of the Cloud Foundry organization and part of why they're joining is because they realize that you know Kubernetes doesn't do day two operations and having spent a lot of time working with the Bosch team I know what Bosch does very well so the Kubo project is sort of this let's take Kubernetes let's bushify it and make it easy to deal with day two operations and I know a little bit about it partly because not only having reviewed it but also because they've submitted it to the extension PMC which I lead and I got to spend quite a bit of time with them so I would say if you are interested in Kubernetes this is definitely a very good one to to spend some time on I think probably that's the one I would highlight so let's see if you guys have any questions otherwise we'll start the sessions right I think that's the next part