Tue, Jun 23 · 6:00 PM EDT
Solo.io sponsoring food & bev this time - thank you Solo!!
As usual:
RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event . Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.Don't be late! You'll get locked out, and that's no fun!
Agenda
6:00 pm: food / drinks / networkingK8s Networking with Solo.ioInference Routing with Prasad PrahbuWhat Nobody Tells You When You Start With OpenTelemetry with Julia Furst Morgado
8:30 pm: Finish
Speakers & topics
1. K8s networking with Solo.io
We always learn a lot from Solo.io, a local Boston-based company that has supported this community for years now. We'll have an expert from Solo teach us some advanced K8s networking topics.
2. Inference Routing with Prasad Prahbu
The DigitalOcean Inference Router is a smart AI traffic manager that automatically evaluates incoming prompts and routes them to the best-fit Large Language Model based on your natural language policies. It optimizes for cost, latency, and quality without requiring hardcoded model changes.
Prasad Prabhu (Product Management Lead at DigitalOcean) and the engineering team designed the router to eliminate "double taxation"—meaning developers no longer need to write brittle custom routing code and maintain classifiers for every stack update.
3. OTel Project Inside News with Julia Furst Morgado
OpenTelemetry adoption often fails at the starting line. Not because the technology is hard, but because the learning experience is. Too many concepts at once, no clear entry point, and an ecosystem that assumes context most people are still building.
This talk is the story of 30 days learning OTel in public: the wrong assumptions, the imposter syndrome, the moments where I almost gave up, and what finally made things click. Sharing the process openly brought back the same questions from people across the community, which made it clear that the confusion isn't personal. It's a gap in how we teach this.
Julia is a cloud-native community builder and practitioner who believes the best systems are built in the open. As Community Manager for OpenTelemetry and a CNCF Ambassador, she works at the intersection of developer advocacy and modern infrastructure, helping teams adopt the tools and practices that make systems more reliable, observable, and scalable. She's also an AWS Container Hero, Docker Captain, Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, and Girl Code Ambassador, and co-organizes KCD NY, AWS Community Day NY, and the Cloud Native Meetup NYC.
About our sponsors
solo.io
Hybrid/Remote option
Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!
