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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.

## 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)

## Other stuff I learned or people i talk to

- Meshcloud: They build developer platform tooling (currently mostly integrated with cloud providers)