Why I love open source development & what I learned from K8s

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Video of a conference talk about open source developement and learnings from K8s presented by Sarah Novotny at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Every open source community I work with teaches me something. While I had a misspent youth in open source database communities, over the last 10 years, Kubernetes has been my most fruitful teacher. In this talk, I’ll share a few of my favorite takeaways from the Kubernetes world about collaboration, community, and the chaos of humans developing code on the public stage of the internet.

Sarah is a technology executive renowned for her pioneering leadership in open source, cloud computing, infrastructure automation, and big data. She has led an Open Source Ecosystem and Strategy group for both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. During her tenure at Google, Sarah played a pivotal role in expanding the Kubernetes open source project leadership and represented the company during the founding of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

At her core, she is driven by the ethos of open-source collaboration – where every line of code and every contributor interaction contributes to a greater collective purpose. She believes in fostering mutual aid and community care to build bridges across diverse coding languages and experiences.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
01:44 – Share your unique perspective
02:46 – Monocultures are unhealthy
04:50 – Belonging is a team sport
06:25 – Plan your succession
09:22 – Invest in those who Show Up
10:18 – Help Others shine
11:49 – Burnout hurts everyone
15:42 – Communication
17:38 – Have fun!

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Presenters:
Sarah Novotny, Open Source Wonk

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