Data Engineering

Presenters Dag Bjerre Andersen Sergey Shevchenko Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Say Goodbye to GitOps Guesswork: Preview Your Pull Request Changes in Seconds! 🚀 Ever stared at a pull request filled with Kubernetes YAML, Helm charts, or Kustomize patches and felt a cold dread? You’re not alone. As a developer or reviewer, you often hope those changes work, because mentally parsing templates to predict the final cluster state is, quite frankly, impossible. This “approve and pray” approach is a silent killer of confidence in GitOps. ...

Presenters Alan Clucas Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Supercharging Argo Workflows: The Power of Artifact Driver Plugins In the world of cloud-native orchestration, data is king. Whether you are passing machine learning models between steps or saving logs for compliance, how you handle artifacts defines the efficiency of your pipelines. At a recent talk, Alan Clucas, a maintainer of Argo Workflows from PipeKit, unveiled a game-changing feature: Artifact Driver Plugins. ...

Presenters Carlos Santana Elamaran Shanmugam Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Scaling Beyond the Cluster: Mastering Cross-Cluster Progressive Delivery with Argo and AI In the fast-paced world of platform engineering, success often brings a new set of headaches. As platform teams become experts at provisioning clusters, application teams immediately demand more. Whether it is 50 clusters or hundreds, the challenge shifts from how do I build a cluster? to how do I orchestrate application rollouts across a global fleet? ...

Presenters Anastasiia Gubska Chase UK Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Breaking the Chains: Mastering Progressive Delivery for Stateful Applications 🚀 In the fast-paced world of software engineering, we often treat stateless applications like royalty. They scale easily, they roll back without a fuss, and they love Canary releases. But the moment a database enters the room, everything gets complicated. Anastasiia Gubska, a Lead Software Engineer at Chase UK and the first deaf CNCF ambassador, recently took the stage to solve one of the most persistent headaches in DevOps: how to perform progressive delivery when your application is tied to a database. Using British Sign Language (BSL) and a live demo, she mapped out a journey to decouple database schemas from application deployments. ...

Presenters Vanshika Jain Aditya Soni Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 The $10,000 Mistake: Taming Argo CD’s Phantom Syncs for Scalability 🚀 Ever feel like your systems are working overtime, even when they don’t need to? It’s a common problem in the tech world, and it can lead to significant performance drains and unnecessary costs. Today, we’re diving deep into a real-world scenario where a team tackled a costly issue with Argo CD’s repo server by eliminating “phantom syncs” and optimizing its architecture. ...