Lightning Talk: Pushing GitOps To the Edge (Literally) - Carson Culler, Liatrio

Presenters Carson Culler Source ArgoCon NA 2025 Sailing Argo CD Through the Storm: GitOps at the Edge 🌊⚓️ Welcome, fellow tech enthusiasts! It’s fantastic to be here, surrounded by so much passion and innovation. For many of us, this might be our first time at a conference of this scale, and it’s truly exhilarating to step out and connect! 🚀 I’m Carson Culler, a DevOps engineer at Liatrio, and today, we’re diving deep into a topic that might make some of us a little nervous but is incredibly rewarding: making Argo CD work its magic in challenging environments. Think high latency, intermittent connectivity, and even completely disconnected scenarios – the “edge” of our technological world. ...

November 24, 2025 · 6 min

Getting to Senior - Taking Ownership Without Leading Projects

Presenters Jonathan Catrell Source Developer Tea podcast Beyond Assigned Tasks: Unlocking Your Career with True Ownership 🚀 Ever feel like you’re just ticking off boxes on a to-do list, waiting for your next assignment? If you’re an aspiring senior engineer or manager, it’s time to rethink what “ownership” truly means. Jonathan Catrell, in a recent Developer Tea episode, dropped some serious wisdom, challenging the conventional notion that ownership is a title or a project handed to you. Spoiler alert: it’s a behavior, a mindset you can cultivate right now, regardless of your current role. ...

November 18, 2025 · 3 min

Envoy From the Inside Out: A Developer's Guide - Akshita Agarwal, Airbnb

Presenters Akshita Agarwal Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Diving Deep into Envoy Proxy: A Developer’s Guide to Mastering Connections 🚀 Envoy Proxy. You’ve heard the name, you’ve seen it powering some of the biggest names in tech like Lyft, Google, and Airbnb. It’s the unsung hero processing millions of connections every single day. But what really makes it tick? Akshita Garwal, with three years of hands-on experience, is here to pull back the curtain and demystify Envoy’s intricate configuration and behavior. Get ready to understand how this powerhouse works, from the ground up! ...

November 11, 2025 · 8 min

Lightning Talk: Envoy @ Netflix - Kevin Baichoo, Netflix

Presenters Kevin Baichoo Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Navigating the Envoy Labyrinth: Netflix’s Journey to Distributed System Mastery 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever found yourself staring at a complex microservices architecture, wondering how to connect all the dots while maintaining sanity and performance? Well, you’re not alone! Today, we’re diving deep into Netflix’s experience with Envoy, the powerful open-source edge and service proxy, and how they’ve wrangled it to manage their vast and dynamic ecosystem. Kevin Bichu, an Envoy maintainer and Netflix engineer, shared some invaluable insights at a recent conference, and we’re here to break it all down for you. ...

November 11, 2025 · 6 min

Lightning Talk: Rate Limiting With Quotas Is Hard - So We Didn't! - Will Betts & Jay Chauhan, Tesco

Presenters Will Betts Jay Chauhan Source EnvoyCon NA 2025 Beyond Quotas: How Tesco Mastered Dynamic Rate Limiting with Envoy 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt the sting of a rate limit kicking in when you least expect it, even when you know you’re not going overboard? Well, the brilliant minds at Tesco, the UK’s retail giant, have been wrestling with this very challenge. They’ve built a massive, distributed API gateway using Envoy and shared their journey from the complexities of quota-based rate limiting to a more dynamic, percentage-driven solution. Let’s dive into how they achieved this, making their API ecosystem robust and user-friendly! 👨‍💻 ...

November 11, 2025 · 5 min