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Day 0 of KubeCon aka CloudNativeCon aka the day on which the co-located events happen.
This year I spent most of my time at the platform engineering day (with a short visit to argocon).
The emerging motto of platform engineering day was "platform as a product".

This was the third conference day (fourth travel day) and in the afternoon i started to feel the brain-overflow.
But powewring through I ended up attending two keynotes (no notes, they were pretty much a welcome and goodbye) and 14 talks.

And most importantly: This is the day my friends an coworkers joined (they are only in town for kubecon, not for rejekts).
Sometimes we ended up in the same talks, sometimes in different talks which lead to a rich set of talk notes.

## Talk recommendations

- How to design a good hireing process: [So you want to hire for platform engineering](./06_hire-engineers)
- Evolution of Platforms and Platform Engineering: [The past, the present and the future of platform engineering](./07_past-present-future)
- How to design a good product: [Product thinking for cloud native engineers](./08_product-thinking)
- Staging with gitops: [A million ways to promote changes between environments](./09_promotions)
- How to handle abstractions and new requriements: [Platform abstractions: Asset or liability](./10_abstractions)
- Very nice slides: [Building Platforms with empathy and yaml at the lego group](./14_lego)

## Other stuff I learned or people i talk to

- Talked to the Vultr people - they have a manifesto for ai with amd and nvidia gpus
- Talked to Meshcloud: They build developer platform tooling (currently mostly integrated with cloud providers)
- Want to look into Okteto for dev envs: <https://github.com/okteto/okteto>